Category: Tech
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Google Talk
Had a quick moment to play around with googles new instant messaging service. It seems really nice and clean, with none of the “fluff” other Instant Messaging programs have. I’ve not tried the actual calling of people yet as my mic isn’t working properly but then it’s easier to type anyway. One thing missing that I can…
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While at work I spend probably upwards of three quarters of my time in vi, or using ksh in vi mode. Now my fingers are expecting it everywhere, from text entry in word, to scrolling in every other application. I now resent having to move my fingers from the home row and grit my teeth…
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Pocket PC today theme
I’ve made a Ubuntu theme for Pocket PC, it’s not as good as I hoped, the colour seems to change from desktop to pocket pc :/, perhaps there should be more brown toolbars etc and a different colour background colour. Here’s a screenshot: Download Ubuntu Pocket PC theme. The theme is available under the terms…
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Software patents follow-up
I’ve had further contact with William Newton Dunn reguarding software patents and it appears that this man is not for turning. Because I am for freedom – the choice – for you – whether to patent or not. And because successful SMEs told me that when they seek money for expansion the first question asked by bankers…
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Software patents
I wrote to my six MEPs yesterday – the MEPs for the East Midlands, regarding software patents, stating my position as being against and querying what they thought, I’ve received two replies already, I’m impressed by their speed of reply, if nothing else. The first reply got back to me, in under twelve hours, this…
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Sitemaps
Google have released yet another beta, this ones called Sitemaps, it’s basically an xml file on your website which helps google make better use of theirs and your resources when spidering your site. Danny Sullivan has a more indepth review of Sitemaps. Michael Nguyen has created some php code to generate wordpress Sitemaps dynamically. I’ve now extended this so…
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Web designing
I’ve spent the last couple of days searching a solutions for my dad. He wants a site where he can write about his birds (that’d be the feathered variety!), so I’ve reccomended him BlogJet and and WordPress to fill his remit of “it must be stupid-proof”. Since deciding on the platform, I’ve set about customising Kubrick into something he likes. Which is…
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Activesync
Microsoft’s worse piece of software foils me again :(. I’ve switched my computer on without noticing the bluetooth dongle wasn’t left in, so I plugged it in after booting up and attempted to sync with my iPaq, only neither device could see each other, although activesync does see the com port and that it’s useable and open,…
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I got my first gnome package committed last night. The British translation for f-spot… Not much but it’s a start, i’m looking around for programs to start work on, or some nice easy bug fixes 🙂
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Ubuntu
I’ve been using Ubuntu Linux‘s Breezy Badger development version as my desktop for the last two days. This is because I’ve had a linux programming assignment to do and rather than ssh into the universities unix server and struggle with small windows and copy and paste failure, I thought I’d simply do it all in linux and use open…