The “Mozilla based browser for maemo” project has released a development version of the Gecko 1.9 rendering engine for the Nokia N800. This project, also known as “MicroB”, allows N800 users to replace the Opera rendering engine of the N800 browser with the same rendering engine that will power Firefox 3. Once the [...]
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Google Maps on the Nokia N800
I finally got my Nokia N800 today. I was amazed at how easily it connected to the internet with WiFi and with my mobile phone. One thing I found useful so far was being able to access Google Maps on the run. It’s a little small on the screen, but I found [...]
Install Ubuntu 7.04 on Your Intel Mac with VMware Fusion
The latest version of Ubuntu, Feisty Fawn, has been getting a lot of press recently. With news that Dell will soon be pre-installing Ubuntu on some of its systems, it’s almost certain that Ubuntu will only become more popular in the coming months. If you have an Intel Mac and would like to [...]
10 Ways The Nokia N800 Is Better Than Apple’s iPhone
Looking for the N900? Find out how it’s also better than the iPhone! New article here.
Get the Nokia N800 and accessories
All the buzz these days is about the Apple iPhone (not to be confused with the Linksys iPhone). I have to admit, the iPhone is pretty cool, and I was really excited about it [...]
Edubuntu Test Theme
This is a test theme for our new Edubuntu student lab. It’s made to look enough like windows in order to ease the change to Linux.
Second Day with Edubuntu 6.06
Our second day of working with the newest release of Edubuntu was much more successful than the first. In just a couple of hours, we got six of our old computers up and running. We needed to replace the video card on one machine. For the rest of the machines, we just [...]
First 24 hours with Edubuntu 6.06
I got my hands on Edubuntu 6.06 about 24 hours ago. Since then, I’ve had a chance to install it on 2 different machines. Here’s a brief rundown of how things have gone so far.
First Install – My Notebook
I have a Sony VAIO V505BL that was running Ubuntu 5.10. I decided to [...]
Edubuntu 6.06 LTS Released – Download now!
The newest version of Edubuntu (6.06 LTS – Dapper Drake) has just been released to download servers. This release has many new features (see press release). I’ve used previous betas of this release and was very impressed. We’re downloading now, and tomorrow we start a new project to setup our student computer [...]
The Future of Linux
skydome+svgOriginally uploaded by rbnet.it.
The future is (almost) here! I just can’t wait to get my hands on the new Ubuntu release … I want my desktop to look like this. Eat your heart out Microsoft!
