Exploring What's Outside The Box
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With the latest version of Ubuntu coming out at the end of this month, I just couldn’t resist getting the beta installed on my desktop. Since my primary Linux computer is my laptop now, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try it on that one first to see what happens. I know there are probably […]
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With DVD playback finally fixed, I can finally watch movies on. However, one thing leads to another and as soon as I started doing this, I noticed that the volume was awfully low. I turned up the volume everywhere as much as I could and looked around a bit and I suddenly realized that I […]
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In my last post, I mentioned briefly that I had yet to get DVD playback to work despite trying every solution out there. It turns out it was something as simple as the region not being set on the DVD player. I bumped into this while doing a few things in Vista. Now, after a […]
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I’ve had my XPS 1530 for a little less than a week now and I had Ubuntu installed just days after I got it so I have had a few days to tweak a few things so that they work as I would like them to. First of all, as far as installation I simply […]
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Yesterday, my much anticipated Dell XPS 1530 arrived at my local FedEx office. I was fortunate enough to be able to pick it up just before they closed down for the day and being a Friday night, I now have a whole weekend to get things rolling on this thing. First of all, the XPS […]
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I think the PS3 community has been waiting since the PS3 came out for Homebrew to be available and possible on the PS3. That dream finally came true not too long ago and it seems like development of Homebrew PS3 titles really are picking up. The best of all, the Homebrew titles are super-easy to […]
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The popularity of the iPhone touch interface can’t be overstated and as evident by all the clones out there, the ability to “touch” instead of clicking is a sure way to attract interest and a lot of users. One of the interfaces that looks very similar to the iPhone interface is iFonz. Having followed and […]
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Considering that I’m heading out for a trip to Israel tonight, I figured I should look into some way to call back to the USA cheaply. My thoughts immediately went to my old friend Skype. So, I headed over to the Skype website and downloaded the latest version of the Windows Mobile client. Big mistake. […]
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After a few hairy moments when neither Ubuntu nor Windows would actually boot, my re-install of Ubuntu has worked out ok. What did I do different? Well, first of all I created a partition specifically for my /home/ directory. This is supposed to make upgrades easier since I won’t have to redo all my settings […]
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I have been using Ubuntu Linux for a little over a month now with a little bit of a mixed experience. I found that installing Ubunut was a piece of cake and using various pieces of software like Openoffice, Firefox, Evolution and so on was painfree and very easy. However, I found that getting various […]
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