When I first saw the release of Google Gadgets for Linux, my first reaction was “What’s the point?” when we already have gdesklets for Gnome and Superkaramba/Plasma for KDE. Then, I read this. Whoever you are, Tiger, you rock.
The world is open source.
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Water-powered car
With the cost of gasoline being what it is, shouldn’t a water-powered car be on the front page of every news source? “I get 100 miles to the ounce on water. I can run any water, distilled water, drinking water, tap water,” said Brown. The self-proclaimed inventor said he has almost done the job and […]
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Microsoft keeps spending millions of dollars just to fight Linux
For those of you who do not believe that Linux is making an impact on the PC market, you obviously have not been watching the actions of Microsoft. Every time a country announces they will switch their government computers to Linux, Microsoft is there literally begging them reconsider (by begging, I mean showering them with […]
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Weather.com Broken?
The other day I noticed that my weather widgets on my Nokia n800 and my KDE desktop at my library no longer work. As far as I know, they all connected to weather.com. So, did they do something to their site to call all these weather widgets to break? I’m sure the one on my […]
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Random Uses for Your Nokia Internet Tablet
Ever since I purchased my Nokia n800 last year, it has become an integral part of my life, much to the chagrin of my wife. It is described by its creators as an “internet tablet.” Along with the n800, some of you might have its predecessor the Nokia 770 or its heir apparent, the Nokia […]
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Cinematography
I’ve been producing a DVD for a school that will be closing at the end of the year, and it is interesting how easy it is to manipulate footage. I’m trying not to do that, of course, but I can see how it would be easy to turn a short quote from someone into something […]
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Why Vuze Sucks
In my attempts to find a decent replacement for Stage6 (no, Veoh is not cutting it), I decided to give Azureus’ Vuze another look. They do have some good content, and the idea of being able to download them legally using P2P file sharing is appealing. But I can sum up why most of their […]
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Goodbye Stage6
It has not been a good week for video formats. First HD-DVD, now Divx. No, the divx format will still be around, but the best thing they ever offered, in my opinion, Stage6, will be gone at the end of the month (and it’s the shortest month of the year!). It was a video-sharing website […]
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Revisiting KDE4
A series of unfortunate events gave me a golden opportunity revisit KDE 4. My previous post regarding it was not a shining one. There were serious limitations with Plasma, and Konqueror was, at least on Kubuntu Gutsy, unusable. I had two hard drives in my computer, an older 80GB one with the operating system and […]