July 2010
74 posts
Students finally wake up to Facebook privacy... →
College students do care about Facebook privacy, it turns out, and their use of the service’s privacy settings has skyrocketed between 2009 and 2010, according to two researchers.
Two Ways to Remove Unwanted Startup Files or... →
Under Debian Linux startup files are stored in /etc/init.d/ directory. Debian uses scripts to start services at boot time from /etc/init.d/ directory. I will show two ways with which you can remove…
Twitter Now Suggests People You Might Want to... →
Twitter Will Now Suggest People You Might Be Interested In StalkingIt can be tough to find fascinating people to follow on Twitter, but now and then you’ll find someone whose tweets perfectly match…
Will Facebook Ever Be Replaced? →
Much to its credit, Facebook (which may not even qualify as a start-up any longer) has stood firm in the rapid river that is the modern social web and has grown into one of the most powerful web…
Apple's New Magic Trackpad: Not So New (PIC From... →
I remember using it back in 1997 with my 20th Anniversary…
Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg Ditches iPhone... →
If his recent Facebook activity has to be believed, than Facebook’s founder and CEO might have just ditched his iPhone for Android. It was only last month when Mark made the headlines for switching…
9 Science Fiction Ideas That Came True →
Technologies and gadgets that debuted in science fiction films and novels. Predicting Crime, Flying Cars, Space Tourism First Appeared in Science Fiction.
Apple Censoring Their Book Store Bestseller List →
Yesterday, this was the number one book at the bestseller list of Apple’s book store: Blonde and Wet, The Complete Story, followed by Big Sis, both erotic short stories written by English auteur Carl…
Apple blocks Time, others from running iPad... →
Apple is currently preventing publishers from enabling subscriptions for iPad magazines, say several sources. Time, for example, is claimed to have wanted to put out a subscription version of the…
Filing for Unemployment in Illinois Requires... →
When helping a friend file for Unemployment, we ran into this error using Ubuntu/Chrome. The “Caution” statement at the top made me laugh!
Bill Consoles Steve About Jailbreaking (pic) →
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How to Make Your iPhone Secure After the Jailbreak →
It isn’t uncommon to find tutorials online about jailbreaking your iPhone. However, there’s one thing that’s almost always forgotten about. Once your iPhone is jailbroken, it becomes vulnerable &…
Tethering your Nokia to Ubuntu via USB. →
After seeing firsthand the perils of using an open WiFi network last week I resolved to post about tethering a Nokia smartphone to an Ubuntu-powered laptop or netbook via USB, as a public service to…
Emulating an Amiga in Linux →
The Amiga was one of the most powerful PC’s of it’s time, easily trumping the emerging IBM PC’s in the 80’s. You can relive this classic PC on your Linux desktop thanks to a number of emulators that…
Linux - Ethernet bonding →
Linux bond or team multiple network interfaces (NIC) into single interfaceWe have two Dell servers that need setup with Intel Dual Gig NIC. My idea is to improve performance by pumping out more data…
Shoot meteors down and learn to type →
Learn touch typing on a linux machine while playing a game!
Linux: Who’s responsible for quality assurance? →
Recently a Red Hat developer got rid of a flaw in an Intel graphics driver probably for a special corporate customer. For years the flaw had been a thorn in the side of numerous users of systems with…
A Great guide to partinioning →
Seems to be written for OpenSuSe should work for any other system… where was this guide when I tried to squeeze Linux before the windows partition and made everything fade to black… Nice and…
Walmart Will Track You and Your Undies With RFIDs →
Walmart will be placing radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags on the jeans and underwear sold in its 3,750-plus U.S. stores beginning next month. But some people are less than happy about the…
Before the iPad, there was the Newton →
If any old-tech devotees are more rabid than Amiga amigos, the Newtonians are. So, for those lovers of Apple’s pioneering handheld, here’s an up-close-and-personal visual caressing of the Newton…
Why some media outfits still say "no" to digital →
Technophiles lament: Not all media is going digital. A handful of stalwart holdouts are happy staying right where they are, whether it be on those odd, circular music playing discs or those squarish…
New Speaker Setup Utility for KDE →
Colin Guthrie from Mandriva Linux has started working on new speaker setup tool at KDE Multimedia Sprint earlier this year. This code is now in trunk and will be available with KDE Software…
Converting Excel files to CSV in Linux →
A quick tutorial and bash script to convert xls file to csv in Linux.
Fart Operated TV Remote →
OK, I know that sounds weird, but bear with me for a moment. My Pops really enjoys two things; 1) channel surfing and 2) farting.
How To Be an Android Power User! →
Everything you need to know to master Google’s smartphone OS
All Your RSS Are Belong To Us →
Showcase of awesome/Best RSS readers for Windows, Linux and Mac!
UK Gov. to switch entirely to FOSS →
In an effort to cut costs British Prime Minister David Cameron has called on state officials to submit proposals on how to save the government money. The newly published list includes migrating…
Which Governments Demand Google Remove Information →
This infographic demonstrates which countries ask Google for the most information on its users, which countries ask Google to remove the most information, and how often Google gives information.
Apple -- the new world leader in software... →
The world’s largest technology company has earned another accolade: it was responsible for the largest number of security flaws in the first half of 2010, knocking Oracle off the top spot. Microsoft…
How a 15-yo Kid Tricked Apple With a Disguised... →
Oh, Nick Lee, you clever boy. You see, Nick here tricked Apple with a very simple iPhone application: Handy Light. On the surface it looked like any other $0.99 flashlight application. But, secretly,…
4 Reasons Every Windows User Should Have An Ubuntu... →
Even a hardcore Windows fan knows that his PC crashes sometimes. So here are the four reasons every Windows user should have a Ubuntu Live CD and its free…!!
how to use serial port in wine emulation inside... →
Netmax Technologies - ubuntu how to use serial port in wine emulationwine emulator is used to run windows apps in linuxi m describing how to use serial ports of linux in wine…
Awesome Developer Icons For Those Who Are Not... →
The icons you get for your computer’s shortcuts are separate from developer set icons. While creating a program, web application, or website developers have to come up with small images for buttons,…
World's First Pirate ISP Launches In Sweden →
The Swedish Pirate Party, who are at the forefront of anti-copyright lobbying in Sweden, are planning to shake up the country’s ISP market. After taking over the supply of bandwidth to The Pirate…
Why does Dell hate Linux so much? →
Want to buy a Dell machine loaded with Linux? Shame, as it appears that Dell Europe would really rather you bought a Windows-powered one, despite having a website devoted entirely to selling Dell…
Must have Ubuntu repositories →
Repositories are servers which contain sets of packages. Here is a list of repositories you must use if you are an Ubuntu user.
Introducing OpenStack →
If you were to pick one word to describe open source, it probably would be freedom. Freedom to innovate. Freedom to consume. Freedom to redefine. There is a great tradition of open source movements…
How to install Microsoft Windows Fonts on OpenBSD →
You may need more fonts as Microsoft Windows has. If you use OpenBSD as your main desktop as a daily work OS rather than using Windows or Linux, you will need more fonts to make OpenBSD desktop looks…
The Rise of Mac (and Linux) (Gaming) →
John Graham from Wolfire Software thinks there is little reason not to explore Mac support where possible, he cites a key blog post from Wolfire founder David Rosen (link) which explains why using…
Full Circle Podcast #10: Trawling the Internet →
The latest broadcast of the Full Circle Magazine podcast, hosted by Robin, Ed and Dave. This week Dave is away, though we have instead Ronnie Tucker, editor of Full Circle Magazine, and Amber Green,…
Haiku OS (like Be OS) R1 Alpha2 Screencast Review →
Screencast Review of Haiku OS (like Be OS) R1 Alpha2 iso running inside a VirtualBox. Video edited in Kdenlive on Ubuntu 10.10”Haiku is a new open-source operating system that specifically targets…
Asunder Graphical Audio CD Ripper and Encoder 2.0... →
Asunder is a graphical Audio CD ripper and encoder for Linux. You can use it to save tracks from an Audio CD as any of WAV, MP3, OGG, FLAC, WavPack, Musepack, AAC, and Monkey’s Audio files. - Can…
Transcoder Audio Edition Simple Audio Converter... →
Transcoder is a simple application that allows you to convert our audio files in popular formats (Vorbis, MP3, MP2, AAC), it uses GTK+ as GUI toolkit and ffmpeg as backend. The application is very…
Jolicloud 1.0 Has an HTML5 UI →
In this new release, the developers have completely replaced the old interface based on Ubuntu Netbook Remix in favor of a new one based on HTML5. Jolicloud 1.0 also features a new syncing feature…
10 Fun Microsoft Facts You Might Not Know →
Despite ever-increasing Mac sales, Microsoft’s still has an undisputed dominance over the computer industry. With such a vast presence, much has already been written about Microsoft: Its history, its…
How to extract uif images in DebianUbuntu →
UIF( Universal Image Format) is a proprietary disk image format used by MagicISO. It is a proprietary disk image format. MagicISO (also referred to as MagicISO Maker) is a CD/DVD image shareware…
Save Halaman Web menjadi file PDF di Linux →
Untuk menyimpan halaman web menjadi file *.pdf di linux bisa menggunakan Tools/Software wkhtmltopdf ( no GUI ).Caranya mudah anda bisa menginstall Software tersebut di mesin linux anda contoh sistem…
BBC News - Broadband Britain rollout delayed by... →
The government says there is not enough money for a minimum service speed of 2Mbps broadband to be in place throughout the UK by 2012.
WTF? "Incest Urges of a Nymphomaniac" Tops... →
So what happened to your “no porn” policy hey Steve Jobs? The reason we ask is because yesterday, what could only be called, an, and excuse us for saying, “transgressive erotic novel” topped Apple’s…
Installing applications in Linux with a double... →
For many, the biggest barrier to adopting Linux is the challenge of having to use the command line for too many tasks. One of these tasks, it is though, is the installation of applications. While…
