Category Archives: Tech
Electronic Stability Control
Does it have ESC?: Australian website explaining Electronic Stability Control Buying a new car (as opposed to an used one) doesn’t happen every day, but if it happens to you, I’d like to encourage you to ensure you get Electronic … Continue reading
30 days with Ubuntu, Vista and OSX
Spotted via Slashdot: HardOCP.com has published “30 days with MacOSX” — with the same author from “30 days with Linux” and “30 days with Vista” doing the evaluation. Ultimately he likes the stability and security but other concerns keep him … Continue reading
Anything But iPod
Anything but iPod is a news and reviews website for digital audio (MP3) players that looks beyond the market leader. Their aim is not to bash or diminish Apple’s offering, but to publicise and review MP3 players from other manufacturers … Continue reading
Rockbox
Almost a year ago now I purchased a Toshiba Gigabeat digital audio player. During this period I have learned a few things – such as it often locks up and needs to be restarted if you leave it in a … Continue reading
Zenwalk Linux
Zenwalk is a GNU/Linux operating system designed to be modern, fast, rational, complete and evolutionary. I installed the latest version (4.2) on my laptop this weekend. Compared to recent Ubuntu and SuSE installs, it was a little intimidating as it … Continue reading
Lifehacker
Lifehacker is a website that links to lots of other websites and is all about getting things done. They describe themselves as the productivity and software guide and exist to help people use technology to save time, not just spend … Continue reading
Tweaking Ubuntu’s desktop
I bailed on DesktopBSD a couple of weeks ago when the new Ubuntu Edgy Eft came out. Installed as the lone OS on my laptop it is now set-up and doing all the things I use it for. Changing the … Continue reading
Celtx
Celtx is essentially a free script writing program. It is free as in beer – you don’t have to pay for it – and free as in speech – you can view and make changes to the source code, if … Continue reading
Akismet
Akismet is a spam filtering plugin for blogs. It stands for Automattic Kismet – Automattic is the company which funds the project and also employs most of the WordPress developers. Kismet meaning fate or fortune. I guess that means that … Continue reading
DesktopBSD woes
DesktopBSD is an operating system for your computer. It is a customised FreeBSD installation which is designed to offer a powerful, easy to install system designed to meet the needs of most desktop users. BSD is a version of UNIX® … Continue reading