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Run Windows in Ubuntu with VMware Player
Via: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/18768/run-windows-in-ubuntu-with-vmware-player/ Are you an enthusiast who loves their Ubuntu Linux experience but still needs to use Windows programs? Here’s how you can get the full Windows experience on Ubuntu with the free VMware Player. Linux has become increasingly consumer friendly, but still, the wide majority of commercial software is only available for Windows and [...]
Download: GNU/Linux Advanced Administration HandBook
The Free Technology Academy had recently launched their new book “GNU/Linux Advanced Administration” which is mainly based on system administration skills. You will learn how to install and configure several computer services, and how to optimise and synchronise the resources. Additionally the FTA has developed a study guide and learning activities which are available for [...]
QTM : a opensource blogging client
QTM is a blogging client which is presently capable of composing, formatting and submitting blog entries to a weblog. QTM will work with blogs based on most of the major blogging systems available today: WordPress (including wordpress.com), Movable Type, Drupal and so on. QTM, as the name implies, is based on the Qt graphical user [...]
Media Cope: first ever multi-functional media software
Media Cope is a first ever multi-functional media software with following functions – Audio/Video Player – Plays almost any audio/video file. You wont require any other media player after using this. Some of the supported formats are mp3, aac, wma, flac, rmvb, mp4, 3gp, wmv, mov, avi, divx, mpg, flv, mkv, vob, dat etc. Audio/Video [...]
Chinese search engine Baidu hacked by Iranian Cyber Army
Baidu ( http://www.baidu.com ) is suddenly unavailable, with sources all over China confirming this. It seems that the website has had its DNS hacked by the “Iranian cyber Army”, the same guys that hacked Twitter a few weeks ago. The process is reportedly called DNS cache poisoning and can happen “through improper software design, misconfiguration [...]
Merry Christmas: Some XMAS Wallpapers
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone! There are some XMAS Wallpapers for you. Download: http://evxz.com/christmas-desktop-wallpapers.html
friendsell – because dibs are better than bids!
friendsell.com is a completely new way to think about selling your stuff. Don’t use classified ads, use social buying/selling. You are in control of who sees your stuff. You can also decide whose stuff you want to see. We are the only website with an easy way for friends and family buy your stuff. Why [...]
MyFreeVPN: A New free VPN Service
My Free VPN is a brand new VPN service, it is a non profit project, and offers people free to use. Because it believes internet freedom is a human right. My Free VPN uses Open VPN client, so after you register an account you have to download a client and a configuration file. It is [...]
How to setup a VPN (pptpd) server on your VPS
I need PPTP server/Proxy setup on a Ubuntu VPS I currently have. 1. Order a VPS hosting on VPSlink. 2. Install Ubuntu on my VPS. 3. Install VPN. 1) Install pptpd # apt-get install pptpd 2) Setting the IP range # vi /etc/ppt localip 192.168.0.1 remoteip 192.168.0.234-238,192.168.0.245 3) add a user for ppp #vi /etc/ppp/chap-secrets [...]
VPSLink Review: Cheap VPS Hosting Company
If you are looking for a VPS hosting provider that knows how to deliver reliable uptime, the Linux operating systems you want, and the tools every superuser needs, You can try VPSLink. Virtual Private Server (VPS) hosting represents the future of web hosting. For many years, full root access has been vital to the successful [...]
Video: chinese girl and knife
Link: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTI3NzM1Nzg4.html
Garmin nuvifone G60 going for $100 on Amazon
Filed under: Handsets, ASUS, ATT
You know what’s insulting? Charging $300 for a nuvifone G60 in the year 2009. It’s cool, though — Amazon, as usual, is our knight in shining armor by swooping in with a $99.99 deal on contract, making the idea of a one-trick pony nav phone with a closed platform and hellish browser just a little more palatable. A big, fat caveat emptor still applies, of course.
Garmin nuvifone G60 going for $100 on Amazon originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Droid Eris turns up in Verizon training course
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Verizon Wireless, Android
Again, we have no idea why Verizon is burying the launch of the HTC Droid Eris alongside the Motorola Droid tomorrow (well, apart from the slow CPU and older Android build) but if you had any doubts that Big Red was going to launch this riff on the Hero, well, these screenshots of the employee training course should put those to rest. Interestingly, the buttons and logo placement are slightly different from the pic that was leaked to gdgt, but this version certainly looks like what Eric Schmidt was holding the other day, so we’re thinking this is the final iteration. We’ll see what’s what tomorrow, we suppose.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Droid Eris turns up in Verizon training course originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung Omnia II gets broken down, screenshot by screenshot
Filed under: Handsets, Samsung, Windows Mobile
The overwhelming mediocrity of Windows Mobile 6.5 gives us pause before saying something sensational like “it’s a great time to be a WinMo fan,” but we’ve got to admit, manufacturers are really stepping up their game to deliver these days — one need look no further than the mighty HD2 to see that. The Omnia II’s looking pretty solid, too, especially if you like your phones served up keyboard-free, and ai.rs blog has compiled a comprehensive screenshot gallery showing just how deep the TouchWiz integration really goes. Build quality is said to be top-notch, and it’s pretty hard to argue with a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display — so as we go into 2010, it looks like we might be gearing up for an epic TouchFLO / TouchWiz showdown in the WinMo octagon. Who doesn’t like a good fight?
[Thanks, msav]
Samsung Omnia II gets broken down, screenshot by screenshot originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris to run Android 1.5 on a 528MHz CPU
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Verizon Wireless
Verizon’s HTC Droid Eris to run Android 1.5 on a 528MHz CPU originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google developing free navigation app?
Filed under: Software
We already know plenty of people who’ve eschewed traditional turn-by-turn GPS systems in favor of plotting it out for free on Google Maps, and now there’s whispers that Mountain View is coming after the rest of the market with a free nav app. That’s at least what nav services providers are saying to Forbes, who think El Goog is gearing up to release a free ad-supported navigation app after making moves to use its own US maps instead licensing data from Tele Atlas and putting ads on the iPhone Maps app. Obviously that would shake things up a ton — and make Android devices a huge bargain — but we’ll see where this all leads over the next few months.
[Via Fierce Mobile Content; thanks Elad]
Google developing free navigation app? originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Android 2.0 support officially added to SDK
Filed under: Software, Android
Google’s gone ahead and uncorked the bubbly to celebrate the launch of Android 2.0 “Eclair” today ahead of Verizon’s big reveal tomorrow, bundling its announcements into two very important sections: SDK support, meaning devs can go ahead and start targeting the new bits, and a comprehensive list of changes in the latest version. Here are the major changes us lay folk are going to care about:
- Support for multiple Google and Exchange accounts
- Third-party “sync adapters” allow apps to tie in to the phone’s sync services
- Quick contact menus for fast access to specific key pieces of contact information
- Unified email inbox (yes!)
- SMS and MMS search
- Text message auto-delete after a user-defined thread size is reached
- Significantly improved camera controls with white balance, macro, effects, and more
- Improved keyboard layout, dictionary, and algorithm based on multi-touch support
- Double-tap zoom in browser, support for HTML5
- Bluetooth 2.1 support with addition of OPP and PBAP profiles
- “Better” graphics hardware acceleration
Needless to say, we’re extremely excited about the changes Google’s made here — and on top of the Droid, we can only hope this action is coming to legacy devices on the double. We’ll find out soon enough (hopefully). Check a video of 2.0 in action after the break!
[Via MobileTechWorld]
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Android 2.0 support officially added to SDK originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Bell announces HSPA+ Turbo Stick, MiFi for shiny new network
Filed under: Others, Bell Mobility, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, HSUPA
What good is a brand new 21Mbps beast of a network without some hardcore data devices ready to take advantage of it? Not much good at all, which is why Canada’s Bell Mobility is Johnny-on-the-spot this week with a couple hardware announcements. First up, there’ll be an aptly named HSPA+ Turbo Stick, which — you guessed it — is a USB stick capable of blazing along at HSPA+ speeds. Next up, lucky customers will be getting the MiFi 2372 from Novatel, the North American 3G version that we’d all love for AT&T to launch at some point. Both devices will be swinging by in November, just in time to christen the brand new towers on a high note.
Bell announces HSPA+ Turbo Stick, MiFi for shiny new network originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HTC HD2 fulfills its unboxing obligations on video
Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Windows Mobile
You’ve already seen the HD2 that HTC would have you see, but now it’s time to take the obligatory journey to the world of unboxings. Seen here in “not-yet-final” packaging, the WinMo 6.5-packin’ handset looks sexier than ever, even in that still-to-be-tweaked green box. Hop on past the break and mash play if you’re looking to get all sorts of jealous this morning.
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HTC HD2 fulfills its unboxing obligations on video originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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