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This is a list of top 10 open source applications for the enterprise users.

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A friend of mine, asked me if he was to invest in Mutual Funds vs keeping his money in the bank fixed deposit. To give a perspective of how much difference a few percentage makes over a period of time, please see the following example.

Note: Standard disclaimer applies, I am in no way an expert in investment and you may be better off having your money safely slashed away in the bank than taking any risks. So invest at your own risk.

Example:

A few assumptions:

Investment amount per year: 10,000
Tenure: 30 years
Total Amount invested: 300,000
At the end of 30 years the return on investment would depend on what rate of interest per annum the amount is invested.

Rate of Interest : Return on Investment

6 % : 838,016
8 % : 1,223,458
10 % : 1,800,434
12 % : 2,702,926
15 % : 4,999,569
20 % : 14,182,578
25 % : 40,339,678

Even a small 2% difference can result in 50% more return on investment! But a lot also depends on your risk appetite, so invest wisely. I used the Compound Interest Calculator to come up with these numbers.

Nice article: 23 Ways to Get Ahead, Work Less and Achieve More

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50 Ways To Increase Your Productivity

Looking for a Dreamweaver alternative that’s free, open source and runs on Linux? NVU was one such project, now there is an unofficial bug fix release. Check it out.

KompoZer

Nice article

Also read related post earlier.

Do megapixels count?

Did you know that Shrek 3 was developed on Linux? Yes and so was the original one! Read the article below for more.

DreamWorks Animation “Shrek the Third”: Linux Feeds an Ogre

Taking photos at Night without a tripod is usually tricky.

Here is a nice article:

How to take AWESOME night photos WITHOUT a tripod

Good Linux phones are finally becoming a reality..

5 Cool Linux-Powered Phones

Very nice article on ComputerWorld which has various configuration tweaks for Firefox right from improving performance to making Firefox behave the way you want.

Covers these four areas:

• Speed up page display
• Have tabbed browsing your way
• Make the user interface behave
• Hack network connections
• Stop memory hogging

Microsoft  want people to pirate their software, so they can get locked into their proprietary software and then they can get them to pay for it.

Microsoft business group president Jeff Raikes feels about software counterfeiters. “If they’re going to pirate somebody, we want it to be us rather than somebody else.”

Sounds like a drug peddler, you first get them addicted and then keep milking them.

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As per Photo Marketing Association survey of digital camera owners:

The average U.S. household has almost 1,000 digital photos stored on CDs, DVDs, Web sites and hard drives.

With almost every cellphone having a camera these days, this is only going to keep increasing.

Firefox, the fastest growing browser now has 25% market share.

Way to go, Firefox.

Palm has released a mobile companion which runs Linux. Its more like a sub-notebook which is light weight and designed to do email. Palm prefers to call it a mobile companion cause they wanted something that would work seamless with their smart phones. When people use smart phones, they often find the tiny screen of the smart phone a limiting factor and Palm hopes to fill the gap with this product.

Palm recently announced that their next smart phone will be Linux based. Expected to be released the year end and I am eagerly looking forward to that!