Looking to turn your Android smartphone into a handy stimulation device? There’s an app for that, thanks to a Seattle-based startup that’s offering developers and consumers an X-rated version of a smartphone app store. MiKandi launched a developer’s portal last week with the express purpose of using the Open Handset Alliance to crack open the [...]
Sometimes it’s the little things that trip us up, like a filename that begins with the wrong character. Juliet Kemp knows what to do when Linux becomes confused and won’t operate on a file the way we want it to.
I’ve been using Skype for voice calls on my Linux machines since 2005.
Calling home from Seoul at the 2006 LinuxWorld conference was easy and useful. Ear buds and a small hand held microphone added no weight to the computer bag while the calls were inexpensive and of perfectly adequate quality. Calling could have [...]
The GNOME Foundation has announced that GUADEC 2010 will be held in The Hague, Netherlands, on July 24-30.
Desktop astronomy has become more accessible over the last few years as hardware and software have come down in price.
The Linux Blog Safari “Tech Turkeys” column may have come and gone, but there’s one more story to share that could almost have been included. What else can you call it, after all, when a Linux professional is apparently fired for using Linux? Sound too strange to be true? Better read on. The story involves [...]
So Thanksgiving has come and gone for another year here in the U.S., and all that remains is a bunch of leftovers. What better diversion as we all make our way through
Avogadro’s number of turkey sandwiches than the Linux Blog Safari’s first annual “Tech Turkeys” column? Yes, you heard that right! It’s time to talk [...]
Praise be - Mozilla has spun out yet another beta for Firefox 3.6, the next iteration of the outfit’s popular browser, just in time for Thanksgiving.……
A new JavaScript API aims to facilitate limited local filesystem access in Web applications.
In Part 1 Akkana Peck talked about Unicode, character sets and encoding — how accented and special characters are transferred in email and web pages, and why you see funny characters. But can you fix it when it goes wrong? And if you’re a programmer, how should you be handling all these encodings?