Funny Yeah, Ubuntu is for me yet somehow, despite the success of the “newcomers” among Linux distributions. It is in my calendar that the distribution already celebrating its seventh birthday! Debian, Redhat and Suse are almost from the beginning of this, Ubuntu actually puts on the other hand still in his diapers. Read the rest of this entry »

A little tip for those who already have GNOME3 and therefore Nautilus 3.x GNOME3 team from the PPA or directly, for example, installed on Ubuntu Oneiric out of the system. Currently the Dropbox extension has not been adjusted for Nautilus third This means that the synchronization of data in the background while working, but we see neither the synchronization status on the icons to the icons, even the pop-up menu with the Dropbox typical dialogues is extended, then ultimately the functionality of Dropbox also appreciable restriction. Read the rest of this entry »

From CyanogenMod team news from today there are attempts to port Android on the HP touchpad to. Meanwhile, work WLAN, accelerometer, and the sound, which is present at this even more work. The Demo has only used one core of the CPU, but it probably will see the extra built-in animations from liquid properly. Read the rest of this entry »

For a change I make just before a hardware mod that I found at the IKEAHackers. You know eventually the Ambilight TVs from Philips, which illuminate the wall to match the image portrayed in the background color. Swedish hacker Ornotermes has built with some IKEA LEDs and a separate controller for the PC Amibilight his own for a few bucks myself. Read the rest of this entry »

Many sparrows whistle It already from the rooftops that is already re-released the next version of Firefox in the next few hours officially. Even if the news is not yet available on mozilla.com, you can now use the new Firefox already, as many Mirror servers are already equipped with the “next” version. Read the rest of this entry »

After Me my good old HP Laserjet 4000N was just too big, unfortunately, was a new printer due. Actually, a true-office printer is ideal, there is toner for more than 10,000 pages to hold out for less than 20 €, but somehow have to find the murder Drum also its place, in my case was no longer the case. Read the rest of this entry »

Some time ago sold off the famous, but somehow flopped WeTab so reasonably priced. Back then you could buy the device for 333 €, maybe even one of you added to the sales and is looking for a way “more” from the WeTab tease out. The community is currently working around the WebTab it in the form of a customized Ubuntu distribution called YaWOS bring. Read the rest of this entry »

As you can read at numerous sites on the net, the Humble Indie Bundle No. 3 is to have. Who should not have noticed, the Humble Indie Bundle includes five current games ever smaller games label, which can be purchased at an arbitrary price without DRM, and for Windows, Mac OS and Linux. In addition, can be directly donated to charitable organizations Child's Play Charity and the Electronic Frontier Foundation on the bundle. Read the rest of this entry »

And again Daniel Delivers supplies for his screencast series in which he wants to bring you closer to programming with GTK +, Python, GStreamer and co. This time he creates with you a small video player that touches again on the GStreamer framework and therefore requires surprisingly little code. If you missed the previous tutorial should, so you can view them all here. Read the rest of this entry »

Oracle has just released the first beta of VirtualBox 4.1. The most important new feature will probably be the cloning of entire virtual machines. So you can produce in a few minutes, a complete copy of a VM. In my tests, which ran at a very clean Debian VM quite well. In only 6 minutes, the entire VM was cloned. Read the rest of this entry »