Lenovo, one of the world’s biggest PC manufacturers, is to start selling laptops to business and consumers with Linux pre-installed on the machines. Linux is a free, open source operating system developed as an alternative to systems such as Microsoft’s Windows. Novell will provide the…
Google sidesteps mobile reports
Google has refused to deny mounting speculation that it is working to produce its own brand mobile phone. Reports suggest that the web giant is developing a series of”GPhones”, centred on its mobile services, such as search, e-mail and maps. In a statement, Google…
Linux CRONTAB – Adding a Linux cron job
How to setup a cron job on a Linux server? I’ve designed a smal PHP aplication that administers my DHCP server and I neded to add a cron job so a script would remove computers from my MAC filtering enabled DHCP. I just set a…
Windows Power Toys – Resizing photos
Sometimes you just want to quickly resize a photo to send on an email, post on a blog or share on your instant messaging programme like MSN. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple tool that let’s you right-click on a photo and have…
OpenMoko – OpenSource based phone
OpenMoko is the World’s First Integrated Open Source Mobile. I came across this project at the begining of the year and have been following it’s development since. OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source…
Removing Programs from Windows Startup
Users often notice that after a few weeks of buying a new computer it starts to run slower and the boot process takes a lot longer than when it was turned on for the first time. There are programs like Apple QuickTIme, Realplayer, JavaRT and…