Google has refused to deny mounting speculation that it is working to produce its own brand mobile phone. Reports suggest that the web giant is developing a series of”GPhones”, centred on its mobile services, such as search, e-mail and maps. In a statement, Google…
Microsoft – Everybody’s Whipping Boy
Why is it that when Apple or Google do something good everyone cheers, but when Microsoft does it people complain and sue them? Take the search function of Vista for example: Mac creates Spotlight and everyone raves about it. Microsoft create what would have to…
Linux CRONTAB – Adding a Linux cron job
How to setup a cron job on a Linux server? I’ve designed a smal PHP aplication that administers my DHCP server and I neded to add a cron job so a script would remove computers from my MAC filtering enabled DHCP. I just set a…
web developers toolbar messes with gmail in firefox
Recently I have been having a problem with my gmail account in firefox. When I clicked on a link in an email it would try and open the new url in a new tab unsuccessfully. What was happening was when I would click on the…
Windows Power Toys – Resizing photos
Sometimes you just want to quickly resize a photo to send on an email, post on a blog or share on your instant messaging programme like MSN. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple tool that let’s you right-click on a photo and have…
OpenMoko – OpenSource based phone
OpenMoko is the World’s First Integrated Open Source Mobile. I came across this project at the begining of the year and have been following it’s development since. OpenMoko is a GNU / Linux based open software development platform. Developers have full access to OpenMoko source…