You just sat down in a coffee shop with a few minutes to spare before your next appointment, which makes it a good opportunity to jump online and check e-mail or take care of other business. So you turn on your laptop and wait for Windows to start up ... and wait, and wait, and wait.

Just a few days to go until The Jackalope arrives. We got Beta now and a Release Candidate shortly then the final vesion. For those who can’t wait the final version and want to taste the Beta, here are ways to have 9.04 on your desktop. Me? I’ll wait for the stable one.

With more and more users turning to the Internet to store and share documents, Linux developer Ubuntu has also entered the market with a beta version of its UbuntuOne service (http://www.ubuntuone.com). The platform is a competitor to the likes of Dropbox and allows users to synchronise files between computers as well as sharing them with friends and colleagues.

Well, my dreams are coming true. This is better than eagles. A new lawsuit with Darl McBride, Stephen Norris and Bryan Cave all named as defendants by Pelican Equity. The accusation? Theft of trade secrets. No. Wait. Wait. Wait. It gets better. They are also accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. There is a God! [passes out from joy]

As a KDE fan myself, I couldn’t wait to try it out. It took a while before Kubuntu packages were made available, however as soon as they were released I jumped on it and installed the beta on my laptop. What did I think of it?

Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) has recently released a beta version of their online file syncing service – UbuntuOne for public testing. In this tutorial, we are going to take a quick look at its functionality and how you can install UbuntuOne in your Ubuntu machine.

Pidgin 2.5 will be included in Ubuntu Intrepid, but some of us won’t want to wait that long to start using it. Luckily we won’t have to wait, or compile the source code, as GetDeb already has Debian packages (.debs) you can use to download.

Now Ubuntu Users can finally access the UbuntuOne Music Store in Banshee .You do need to be running Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 (or any prior Lucid version that is fully up-to-date).

The OpenOffice.org development team has released the second beta of the forthcoming OpenOffice.org 3.0 office suite. The latest beta includes a number of new features that will make the wait for 3.0 worth it. The final version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 is expected to be released in September.