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Do you remember the Frankencamera? The API used for the Frankencamera has been released for the Nokia n900 Phone, making the phones camera programmable. For those with programming skills this could be a very interesting Journey. FCam API provides you with full low level control of your camera, enabling you to hack your Nokia N900 and [...]

Portable Apps for Linux

July 30th, 2010

A portable App is a program that has everything it needs to run, all of it’s dependencies contained within itself. This means that a portable App that has been developed for Linux should work on any version of the Linux operating system. Another interesting thing about portable apps is that they are very easy to [...]

Gentouch 78 is an Android tablet manufactured by Augen which will be made available at Kmart of all places at the introductory price of 150 dollars. With only 800 mhz processor and 2 gb of space the specs on this device are not particularly impressive. But for only 150 dollars the price is appealing. If [...]

After discovering that the Compiz Screensaver had nearly dropped off the face of the internet I decided to do something about it. Besides someday I may need an install file to put it back on my own system if I change Linux distributions or something. So I gathered up the files that I had on [...]

I recently go the Compiz Screensaver running on my Ubuntu Linux system. This is a somewhat experimental plugin and so this plugin is not included by default with Compiz. But for the more adventurous it may be possible to get this interesting addition to your compiz desktop functioning on your system.
With that said here [...]

35 dollar Tablet Computer

July 24th, 2010

While Apple fans continue shelling out $500 for ipads, some folks in India have done something useful. They have developed a Tablet Computer that is planned to be available for 35 dollars. Now that is a Tablet Computer I would not mind trying out. Or free would be even better if anyone would send me [...]

Apple should be concerned about the iPood. Sea to Summit has released a product originally named the iPood which is about 100 times more useful than the iPod, that overpriced toy. This product is a Poo Trowel. Unlike the iPod the iPood follows guidelines from the ethical outdoor travel organisation Leave No Trace, enabling you to [...]

For all those people out there that do not even know they are using Linux on their smart phone this would come as a surprise. But it is still true nonetheless. Android  which is built off of Linux has already gained enough momentum that it has outsold the iPhone for the first time this year [...]

Parted Magic 5.0 Released

July 14th, 2010

Parted Magic is basically a live Linux Cd with software included that can make partitioning your hard drive partitions easy.
Newest features in Parted Magic 5.0
Linux kernel 2.6.34.1;
· Xorg Server 1.7.7;
· GParted 0.6.1;
· Added support for new languages (French, German, Norwegian, Italian, Russian and Brazilian);
· ClamAV 0.96.1;
· Bash 4.1;
· FreeType 2.3.12;
· Syslinux 4.01;
· SimpleBurn 1.5.1;
· module-init-tools [...]

Finally, a company has come up with something revolutionary a Tablet computer that does not cost over 400 dollars! This product will be made available by Velocity Micro. They are preparing to launch two different products the Cruz Storypad which will be available for $149.00 and the Cruz Tablet which will be available for $295.00
Here [...]

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