Archive for the ‘Software’ Category

Evernote Mobile Alternative for (Nokia) Symbian S60 3rd Edition – Upvise

Attention: This post is not open source related. For some FOSS goodness, check some previous posts. I love my Nokia E71. I can listen to podcasts, browse the Web and navigate using the built-in GPS. But for a long time I’ve had an itch that needed serious scratching. When I wanted to make a quick [...]

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HOWTO: Intel GMA 500 (Poulsbo) on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

UPDATE 5/31/2010 – thanks to bibitte This script is not valid anymore (well it works, but there is a newer, better method). use this PPA repository, you can see instructions here: http://code.google.com/p/gma500/wiki/PPARepository A little heads up to every angry Intel GMA 500, “Poulsbo” chip-powered netbook owner who has not been following this great thread on [...]

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Firefox, Gecko, HTML5 and more: An (Email) Interview with Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler

If it were not for Mozilla and its numerous open source projects that saved us from the IE Dark Ages, the browser market today would definitely be very different. In 2010, the Firefox browser is facing some pretty tough competition from the likes of Google Chrome, Internet Explorer 8 (v9 is actually good), Safari and [...]

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KDE 4.4 Review, Screenshot Tour (and KDE 4.0 Comparison)

Note: I refuse to call the reviewed product the KDE Software Compilation. Sorry, I just feel it’s an ugly name for such a beautiful piece of software. 21,000 closed bugs later, the KDE team has announced the new KDE 4.4 and I simply had to take a look. After all, the last time I took [...]

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Linux and FOSS-related Predictions for 2010

First, I’d like to wish a Happy New Year to everyone! 2009 has been a very interesting year (at least as far as tech goes) and I’m sure we will see some amazing stuff this year, that is why I would like to make a few brave predictions. I am very excited about 2010, we [...]

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