Forum xda-developers a small Java program that has arisen over the use to its Android mobile phone from the comfort of your desktop, and thus create screencasts from your device can. You need to either root privileges, nor any programs on your Android-powered smartphone, the free Android SDK and Java are sufficient. Read the rest of this entry »

Time a small detour into the category of “exotic hardware.” The Oasis is UMO19 MCU003 USB digital microscope with up to 400-fold magnification. The smart thing the thing is that it runs as a normal webcam with a 1.3 megapixel image sensor. Thus one does not need special software and, thanks to the built UVC chipset should also all popular Linux distributions with kernel 2. Read the rest of this entry »

The Apple Mighty Mouse is already on the market for a while and slowly pulls the necessary support of a mouse in Linux. Kernel 2.6.34 is officially support the Magic Mouse, but under the new Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10:04 you can use your Apple magic rodents.View”basic functions” pairing, hands move, left click and right click work under older versions of Ubuntu immediately. Read the rest of this entry »

Early November 2009, Skype announced that it would publish the front end of the Linux client as open source. Now, after more than half a year, the basis for this was created. Thus able to draw “x-arbitrary” application or device on Skype as a service, it needs a uniform and public programming.ViewToday Skype has however introduced the new “headless” version SkypeKit. Read the rest of this entry »

After I used a purchased thanks to Samsung Galaxy to be active, then the official version is distributed free of charge.ViewWho has interest in this input method, which goes on beta.swype.com, registered and the program draws on his smartphone. I have not had a chance to try it out the thing itself, but when you look at this video from Techcrunch times, then comes the “Tap” means Swype out of hand pretty quickly. Read the rest of this entry »

Long was it not possible to play Blu-ray discs on Linux, which many of changing trains – was pilloried – no matter whether they have themselves ever on Blu-ray media or not. Four students from the Ecole Superieure d'Informatique French university, Electronique, Automatique have now created a project in lxBDPlayer remedy in the form of the program. Read the rest of this entry »