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The Open Source Journalist part 1: Video editing
Good technology is about reducing costs and – at least as far as journalism is concerned – making distribution easier. There are lots of people starting to make a living from running independent news sites by choosing to focus on a hyperlocal or niche subject and producing excellent quality work using low cost tools. The…
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Save Xmarks
Sad news earlier in the week that the cross-browser bookmark sync, Xmarks, is to close down its servers next January. The founders say they’ve failed to find a way to moneterise Xmarks, which has over two million subscribers. Unlike other top sync services – like Evernote, RTM and LastPass – there’s no option to pay…
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Ubuntu 10.10 beta
I’ve been running Ubuntu on most of my PCs for about three years now, and have been far happier with their performance than I ever was under Windows. The only real problem I’ve had is that as part of my job reviewing and evaluating hardware, I tend to use quite a lot of high end…
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Calling St Kilda
I don’t know why, but this is one of my favourite stories that I’ve written recently. Very simple, absolutely throwaway and straightforward to research and put together – pretty much all I had to do was make a call from my office and then read up on the St Kilda archipelago in the Outer Hebrides.…
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Want this: Viewsonic launches tablet at IFA
As happy as I’ve been with my iPhone 3GS, I’ll never buy an iPad or another iPhone. It’s the obvious reasons, really – the inability of iOS to support decent multitasking, the walled garden of the App Store, the lack of Flash support, the general attitude of Apple in the wake of antennagate… Don’t get…
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Remember the Milk/Thunderbird 3
I know this is of niche interest, but the Remember the Milk provider does actually work with version 3.0.3 of Thunderbird. All you do is change the version as described here (the rest of the hack isn’t needed with the latest version of the RTM app). Unless you actually use both apps regularly, you can’t…
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25 tips for Linux newbies
I’m really enjoying writing the occasional list feature for TechRadar lately, giving me reason to jot down thoughts which I should by rights probably have published here long ago and just got too busy. The latest is a quick introduction to Linux which I hope covers most of the pain points for anyone thinking of…
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Boot problem finally fixed
For months now I’ve had an annoying problem with Ubuntu. It boots to Gnome login in less than 30 seconds, but then pauses for a long time before showing the desktop. Through tweaking and fixing I’ve got this down to something reasonable – another 30-40 seconds, but it’s still too long. I’d narrowed the problem…
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Also worth mentioning
Update on the Eee 901. I reinstalled Jaunty completely, as the ACPI scripts I’d been using stopped working, and the boot time slowed after an update to the beta package. Now I’ve installed the 2.6.29 kernel on it (which gives you Bluetooth on/off), AWN’s dock and the same ACPI scripts by Elmurato. Everything is working…
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Jaunty is go…
Finally plucked up the courage to upgrade my main machine to Jaunty and it was an absolutely painless process. Even VMWare is working fine after the kernel upgrade, and that’s the first time that’s ever happened. I still get a 20-30 pause between the gnome login screen and the desktop appearing though. Something that’s been…
