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Nothing was found!The IT (information technology) term desktop may refer to:
- The area behind the windows in the desktop metaphor of computer user interfaces
- Desktop environment or software that provides a comprehensive computer user interface
- Desktop computer - An independent personal computer, as opposed to other forms of PCs, such as a mobile laptop or notebook
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After spending about a year interacting with µTorrent exclusively through Remote Desktop, I was pleasantly surprised to discover how good the web UI is. It aggressively exploits the latest Ajax techniques to replicate most of the rich GUI functionality of µTorrent in a browser. But the web UI is still a pale shadow of the full-blown Windows UI.
iCal and Google Calendars are great applications for different sets of reasons, one is online with sharing capabilities, one is desktop driven with great notifications and offline capabilities. Get ready to get excited Mac users, Spanning Sync syncs all of these features together and lets Mac users choose which calendar application you want
Intel and its partners will kick of CeBIT 2007 with the launch of Intel's Bearlake family of chipsets for desktop PCs. The new series introduces support for DDR3 memory, front side bus speeds up to 1333MHz and are designed to support Intel's upcoming 45nm-process CPUs, the Core 2 Duo (Wolfdale) and Core 2 Quad (Yorkfield).
If you run a linux desktop, you aren't just stuck with the standard "kicker" or gnome panel to operate as your app launcher and taskbar. There are a bunch of nice panel replacements that can spice up your desktop nicely. This article gives a nice overview of kooldock, kiba-dock and kxdocker; panel replacements ranging from the pretty to the insane.
The Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 takes the top spot of Intel’s Core 2 Duo lineup at $266 per processor, in 1,000 unit quantities. Intel clocks the Core 2 Duo E6850 at 3.0 GHz, higher than last year’s flagship Core 2 Extreme X6800 and it costs a fraction of the X6800’s $999 launch price.