Archive for the 'Screencasts' Category

Nokia N800 Gets Firefox 3 Rendering Engine

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

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 [...]

VMWare Fusion: Looking Better Than Ever

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

While Parallels may have got the jump on VMWare in the Mac virtualization market, VMWare Fusion is looking better all the time. I first tried Fusion out of frustration over not being able to install the latest versions of Linux on Parallels. VMWare has a much longer history in the VM market and [...]

Google Maps on the Nokia N800

Friday, May 18th, 2007

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

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

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 [...]

Using Backpack Offline with PackRat - Screencast

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

This is the first of (hopefully) many screencasts I hope to bring you over the coming months. Today’s screencasat is about how to use your Backpack account offline on your Mac with a new program called PackRat.