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?Email on Three? Push email using SEVEN.
2009-09-21 15:08:00 I've just installed the 'email on three' application onto my Nokia e71. It seems to be a rebranded version of SEVEN; a push email solution for various mobile devices including Symbian based mobile phones. So far it seems to be pretty good, and although there are a few reports on the ... More About: Email
Speeding up Firefox 3 in KDE 4 (Kubuntu Intrepid)
2009-09-21 15:08:00 Having just moved across to Kubuntu Intrepid I found that Firefox looks a little crappy by default. This can be remedied pretty quickly by grabbing this theme, created especially for KDE 4: http://ramonantonio.net/kde-firefox/ Secondly some people suggested that they found Gmail scrolling a little slow on some computers. Disabling the Ubuntu Firefox ... More About: Firefox 3 , Speeding
Spotify on Ubuntu
2009-09-21 15:08:00 Yes folks, it's the craze that's sweeping the nation (well the 'tinterweb), it's fun, it's funky, it's Spotify! It's like a version of Last.FM that plays the actual songs you want to hear and what's more, the app works with Ubuntu . OK, so it's not a native app, but at least ...
High Altitude Balloon Photography
2009-09-21 15:08:00 An interesting Slashdot article about high altitude balloon photography just sparked my interest. The first article tells the story of a group of students launching a balloon to a height of 20 miles, for just under $150 USD, using only off-the-shelf components. Using a cheap pre-pay mobile phone with GPS, a ... More About: Photography , Balloon , High
Update Reminder When Logging in Remotely
2009-09-21 15:08:00 Just logged into a Jaunty desktop machine over ssh and got a reminder to update: 8 packages can be updated. 16 updates are security updates. Is this feature new? Has it been around for ages and I missed it? Whichever, nice one! More About: Update
Using the Wiimote & Wii Balance Board in Ubuntu
2009-09-21 15:08:00 Matt Cutts, head of webspam at Google, has written a couple of very interesting articles describing how to hook up Wii peripherals to an Ubuntu Pc over bluetooth. The first article describes how to hook Ubuntu up to a Wiimote , followed by another showing how to build a working weight sensor ... More About: Board , Balance
MPs? Expenses ? Interesting claims by David Davis MP
2009-09-21 15:08:00 As you might have seen in the news, the UK Parliament has made available records of MPs' expenses from 2004/05 - 2007/08. Obviously these records can reach hundreds of pages for each MP and will take some time to sift through. It seems to me that by applying a bit of ... More About: Interesting , David , Expenses , Claims , Davis
Pirate Party UK Launches
2009-09-21 15:08:00 The Ubuntu-UK mailing list brings news of the emergence of the 'Pirate Party UK' (PPUK). Inspired by the Swedish Piratpartiet, the PPUK is a single issue political party campaigning principally for the reformation of copyright law and patent systems. Interested in the political/legal concepts of Free Libre and Open Source software? Give ...
Making ?ondemand? CPU frequency scaling more responsive
2009-09-21 15:08:00 For a while now I've found that ondemand CPU frequency scaling (enabled by default) makes my laptop seem sluggish under Ubuntu. Basically the CPU speed doesn't seem to increase quickly enough to keep up with the sudden brief bursts of demand caused when using Gmail, or playing Youtube videos for instance. ...
Symfony ? cssTabsPlugin and security
2009-09-21 15:08:00 Hi all, I have been working on a Symfony (ver1 of the MVC) based application. It needs really tight security that is really granular. So I did what most people do and installed the cool sfGuardPlugin. It works a treat. But.. I started to look at how I secure individual buttons, ... More About: Security
Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF
2008-05-25 00:00:00 I just read this on Slashdot and wondered what people thought of this seemingly bizarre move from MS? After campaigning for OOXML so vigorously, MS have now announced that they will be issuing an update to Office 2007 to add support for OASIS ODF 1.1. This won't be available as the default ... More About: Microsoft , Microsoft Office , Support , Office 2007
Hull Beats Bristol to Reach Premier League
2008-05-25 00:00:00 This is just a quick post to say well done to Hull City AFC for achieving promotion to the premier league! The city of Hull is currently undergoing a period of regeneration unprecedented in it's long history. Previously a prosperous fishing town, Hull is fighting back against economic decline and trying ... More About: Bristol , League , Beats , Reach
Valve?s Source Engine Coming to Linux?
2008-05-12 00:00:00 Some exciting news coming from the Phoronix website suggests that Valve may be porting the Source engine to Linux . The Source engine powers many of Valve's top titles including Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, Day of Defeat: Source, Portal, and Team Fortress 2. Linux support for Source is likely to increase the ... More About: Engine
BBC iPlayer on Xbox Media Centre (XBMC)
2008-05-06 00:00:00 Want iPlayer on your telly but don't have a Wii? Check out this very useful script for the Xbox Media Centre . The script allows you to download programs from the BBC iPlayer service to an old Xbox (or Linux or Windows PC) with XBMC installed, and watch them at your ...
Hardy Heron and Stuff?..
2008-04-28 00:00:00 Hello there. I can't believe it's been nearly a month since I wrote anything. Recently I've found myself pre-occupied with other things so I've been neglecting you. I'm sorry! There has been a major change in the Ubuntu landscape since the last time I put finger to keyboard. Hardy Heron has ... More About: Stuff , Hardy Heron
Ubuntu Survives PWN to OWN Hackfest Unscathed
2008-03-29 23:00:00 A laptop running Ubuntu Gutsy (7.10) remained the only uncompromised system at the CanSecWest conference PWN to OWN competition. The competition sees hackers compete to discover a 0 day code execution vulnerability, on one of three laptops running Mac OSX, Windows Vista or Ubuntu. The winners take the pwned laptop ...
Authenticating an Ubuntu PC to Active Directory
2008-03-23 00:00:00 Likewise Open is a piece of software designed to make it easier to integrate Linux PC's into an Microsoft Windows Active Directory (AD) domain. Now you can log onto your Ubuntu PC using your Windows network username and password, and access your shared files and resources whilst logging on only ... More About: Active Directory
Why Ubuntu Needs to Charge for (some) Software
2008-02-19 00:00:00 Now before you fire up your trusty keyboard to shoot me down in flames for suggesting this. I want you to think about the continuing challenges that Ubuntu (and Linux in general) face as they compete against Microsoft for a share of the desktop OS market. A good place to start ... More About: Software , Charge
Karoo Customers Speak Out
2008-02-09 00:00:00 Hull for those of you who don't know - it is a city which is trying really hard. Hull is working its arse off to drag itself out of economic and social decline and to establish itself as a 'top 10 digital city'. After years of treating this as back ... More About: Customers , Speak
Modifying the Xbox . Installing a Bigger Hard Drive
2008-02-03 00:00:00 Again, the standard disclaimer. This like any other type of mod can jigger your Xbox ! This time round though the risk is slightly less. If you make a mistake on your new hard drive it's not the end of the world. You should be able to replace the original drive again ... More About: Drive , Hard , Hard Drive
Modifying the Xbox . Installing a Softmod and Xbox Media Centre
2008-02-03 00:00:00 First of all the sombre warning. Don't rush into this, read around. Use this article as a basic guide and check around on the 'net for more info to pad it out. You can totally knacker your Xbox by softmodding it if you're not careful. This is my experience of ... More About: Media , Centre
Modifying the Xbox . Making a USB Cable
2008-01-28 00:00:00 I'm thinking of turning my Xbox into a media centre, it isn't used much any more so it might as well become useful (or die trying). I don't have a mod chip, I don't want to take the Xbox to bits (and I'm too tight to pay someone else ... More About: Cable
Creating HDR Images in Ubuntu
2008-01-21 00:00:00 Wikipedia tells us that "high dynamic range imaging (HDRI) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques." Phew... Chris 'o' pedia would read something more like "HDR images look really cool. You can ... More About: Ubuntu , Images , Creating , Ages
BBC Goes Web 2.0ish
2008-01-18 00:00:00 The BBC have quietly made public their new web 2.0 style homepage. It looks good, but under Ubuntu + Firefox I´m finding it pretty slow. Personally I see a performance hit when trying to drag a content box. Id find it interesting to discover whether or not this is because ...
Why Use an Open Source Licence?
2008-01-14 00:00:00 OK, imagine if you will, that I suddenly developed uber programming skills and coded a great application for - lets say - keeping track of properties in an estate agency. At this point I'm faced with a couple of choices (but please add more if you think of any): 1) Provide my ... More About: Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source , Licence
Facebook Confuses Me
2008-01-12 00:00:00 What on earth is the difference between 'Funwall' and 'Superwall', and why do I keep using Facebook when it's so bloody dodgy in the first place?
Pandora, I?ll be Back?
2008-01-12 00:00:00 Don't you just love it when the small guy socks it to 'The Man'? In the few days since Pandora closed its doors to UK listeners, a website has been created to circumvent Pandora's IP address blocking scheme. As you'd expect, the owner of the globalpandora.com site has registered the domain anonymously. ... More About: Back
New project - Symfony based website
2008-01-04 00:00:00 Hi there, This is not Chris, but Adam writing.. I am embarking on a small project to design and build a web-app using the Symfony MVC framework and thought it may be of some benefit to someone somewhere... I am not the Worlds best coder but thought it would be ... More About: Website , Project
Ubuntu Needs to Respond Faster.
2007-12-25 00:00:00 Ubuntu, as we all know is a great operating system. Its built on the solid foundations of Debian, it has a vibrant and helpful community and a multimillionaire astronaut as a sugar daddy. Things are good. Ubuntu aims to be 'the' definitive Linux distribution for 'the rest of us'. A ... More About: Ubuntu , Aster , Needs
BBC iPlayer for Linux is Go (Well, Sort Of?)
More articles from this author:2007-12-18 00:00:00 Eagle eyed Andy Lockran has noticed that the promised BBC iPlayer support for Linux has emerged. Although currently delivered using Flash, the quality isn't all that bad and some effort seems to have been made to get it looking 'right'. Thanks for keeping your promises BBC. We appreciate it. More About: Sort 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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