An interesting view into how students live today. I’m thinking that it depends what degree you study on how much work and classes you have to do – 3 hours of class + 2 hours work a day is much less than I did, and I only graduated last year! Also, noone brought laptops to [...]
Image via Wikipedia Having talked to some university students who had taken computer science/IT degrees, I was amazed by how little they seemed to know about making anything that’s secure or even remotely logical. The group I met with primarily had been taught PHP. Having looked at some sites they were designing I realised 5 [...]
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Really interestingly made video, definitely worth watching! Covers the history of the internet in a really creative way.
The new semantic search tool for wikipedia, Powerset, have just announced a competition challenging users to find interesting “Factz” using their search tool. So far, I’ve found: What eats humans? We have the usual: zombies, monsters and sharks, but the list also includes Catholics, foxes, streets and pigs… What do chickens like? Only three things, [...]
Image via Wikipedia Google have released a section in the settings tab of Gmail called labs. This was predicted by a few blogs recently, and it seems to have come true today. The new labs section includes: Quick Links: Add links to the sidebar for any bookmarkable page in Gmail. This lets you add custom [...]
Image via Wikipedia It’s been around for a while now, but getdeb is still a very useful tool. It has links to hundreds of .deb files for easy installation of newer software that hasn’t made it’s way to Ubuntu yet. For starters, try installing: Banshee Pidgin Screenlets Tangerine Much nicer than compiling from source!
With the release of Microsoft’s Invite2Messenger, we can now get all our Facebook friends out of Facebook, and into our address books. Useful for finding your friends on other sites, as well as for emailing them! 1. Go to: https://www.invite2messenger.net. If you get a warning about the security certificate, just allow it. 2. Choose Facebook [...]
Icons exist for the following programs that are no included on the Eee – perhaps these were planned for inclusion at one point. Find these at /opt/xandros/AsusLauncher. Use ls | grep iptv in that folder to find the filename for iptv for instance. iptv kturtle kvisio openarena planner skool splashtop supermario xterm music store googleearth [...]
AppJet bills itself as allowing “instant web programming”. As a relatively competent programmer, I had a look to see whether this tool would be useful to me. The key feature of AppJet is that it allows you to write code and publish it without having to host it yourself. Any application that you make has [...]
If you’ve been following the development of KDE 4, then you are likely aware that the most recent release candidate was released a few days ago. To install on Ubuntu or Kubuntu: Remove any previous version of KDE 4. sudo apt-get remove kdelibs5 kde4base-data kde4libs-data Install KDE 4 RC 2: sudo apt-get install kdebase-bin kdebase-workspace [...]