Category Archives: Linux

Using Dropbox on KDE4

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve just started using the Dropbox service, which is rather handy for sharing files between computers. I’ve got it running on my Macs, but found setting up the Linux client on KDE4 (4.1 in my case) a little more tricky. … Continue reading →

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Spicebird 0.4 available for download

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Graeme Hunter

Spicebird is an open-source collaboration suite. Simply put, it is built on Mozilla’s Thunderbird code, and also includes calendars, instant messaging, notes, contacts, feed reading and an old-school news reader. It look nice, is well put-together thus far, has a … Continue reading →

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Flock for 64-bit Ubuntu Feisty Fawn and Gutsy Gibbon

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

I’ve been using the Mozilla-based Flock browser more in the past month, I do like how integrated the social networking side of it is. I can’t find extensions for Firefox that do it all so neatly and seamlessly. I’ve decided … Continue reading →

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Firmware update for the Nokia N95

Posted on December 11, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

Nokia have recently released a new firmware update for their N95 mobile phone. I have upgraded to this, and have to mark it as an update worth having. The main benefit is supposed to be improved memory handling, and thus … Continue reading →

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Sync to your Nokia N95 using Amarok

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

I received an email today from a new reader, Mark, asking me if I had managed to sync music and podcasts to my N95 yet using Amarok on Ubuntu. This reminded me that I had been meaning to, but had … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-11-08

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

Kismet Emotion Robot research (tags: AI robot robotics MIT research technology design) MOSH by Nokia Social sharing network for mobiles. (tags: mobile nokia community mosh web2.0 sharing phone n95)

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links for 2007-10-26

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

Godaddy Dot UK Emergency Not sure this is as described, kept for reference (tags: godaddy domain names) Synchronize your Google contacts with your cellphone – Download Squad Have tried out the free calendar service, it works. You have to pay … Continue reading →

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links for 2007-10-25

Posted on October 25, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

Verisign to Profit from Rootserver Data? by Domain Name News Very interesting way of dealing with domain tasting, sell a view of your server logs instead as a form of pre-tasting to see if a domain is worth having. Danger … Continue reading →

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Catch-up on Google, Mobile, Firefox and other things of interest

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

It took me quite a while after my recent holiday to catch up on my RSS feeds (I had a mere 7500 posts to work through, with more coming in all the time), so I had to be quite careful … Continue reading →

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Set up an FTP folder in Kubuntu

Posted on October 16, 2007 by Graeme Hunter

Small tip today, I found this the other day, and it’s very handy to have FTP folders set up, rather than use a separate FTP program. Just saves on a few clicks here and there. To set this up in … Continue reading →

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