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Have you ever come across software that doesn’t have a deb file or isn’t in any repositories? Well don’t be put off, because compiling and installing from source is pretty straightforward. The software packages will either be in tar.gz or tar.bz2 form. There are essentially four steps you need to take to install your software. […]
The Ubuntu Media Centre Team have decided to use Elisa as their core infrastructure to push the free software media centre effort forward. Elisa is a open source cross-platform media centre, designed to be as simple to use as possible. The software is in its early days and so is still quite basic in terms […]
I have recently replaced µTorrent with Transmission as my BitTorrent client. However, although Transmission is very light and easy to use, it is a bit too basic and I miss some of the features found in µTorrent. I personally don’t like running windows apps in Wine, I’d rather run a native application. While browsing the […]
In year 2000, at a meeting in Paris, the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) announced that seven $1 million prizes were being offered for the solutions to seven problems in mathematics. A hundred years earlier in the same city, David Hilbert announced a list of 23 problems to drive forward mathematics into the new century. Here […]
This bad boy is a dell 22″ lcd monitor, probably the sexiest monitor I’ve seen. It’s a limited edition model and it’s not cheap, it’ll set you back $1199. Here are some of its features:
WSXGA+ 1680 x 1050 resolution
TrueColor Technology with 98 percent color gamut (typical)
2ms typical response time (grey to grey)
2000:1 dynamic contrast ratio […]
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Try this little experiment, while sitting down (also works standing up), lift your right leg and start making clockwise circles with it. While doing this draw the number 6 in the air with your right hand. You will notice that your foot changes direction, you cant seem to control it either. Weird.
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The Torch created by Wicked Lasers is being reviewed by The Guinness Book of World Records as a candidate for the worlds most powerful flashlight. At 4100 Lumens, it is capable of melting plastic, igniting paper or even frying an egg. The Torch eats batteries for breakfast, they only last 15 minutes with this monster.
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Sony Ericsson has announced three new phones, G700, G900 and the XPERIA X1. They are all touchscreen phones, the new ‘G’ series also include a standard keypad whereas the X1 has sliding QWERTY keyboard. The X1 seems to be aimed at the high end of the market while the G900 and G700 take up the […]
I have never been a big fan of KDE ever since I first used it in openSuse. I used to think it was childish and a bit all over the place. However, KDE have redesigned everything for version 4 and from what I’ve seen so far it looks beautiful. It will come with a new […]
