If you have ever worked on multiple workstations you know the headache associated with keeping your bookmarks, cookies and passwords synchronized across all of your workstations. Fortunately, Google has a Browser Sync Extension for Firefox to maintain synchronization across all of your machines automatically. Here are the instructions on how to setup and use the Google Browser Sync for UBUNTU. [...]
Many people have complained about the bootup time on laptops with Ubuntu 7.04 installed. This is actually a problem with laptops dating back quite some time. Windows addressed this issue with XP when the wireless card is disabled until the desktop loads to prevent it from conflicting with the regular NIC. Basically, the wireless card “waits” to find a network until it times out. It will time out on any WEP, WPA or encrypted or authentication based wireless network. Follow these instructions to eliminate this lag and speed up your boot time. [...]
The Linux Phone Standards (LiPS) Forum yesterday announced the publication of specifications to improve interoperability across the Linux-based mobile telephony ecosystem and to standardise a layer of software that will make it easier to create mobile applications that can run on any Linux phone. [...]
Racking your brain trying to figure out how to transfer files between two Blackberrys? Messing with cables, and cradles, and laptops and PCs? Don't bother. You can send and receive files, using Bluetooth wireless technology, between BlackBerry 8800 by completing the following steps: [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On Thursday, The US International Trade Commission has issued a ban on importing some of the cell phone models, which contain Qualcomm's chips. According to the Commission, these chips infringe on the patent issued to Broadcom Corporation. The models covered in the import ban include new cell phone models that contain the infringing chips, but also exempt those imported for sale to the general public on or before the June 7, 2007 date of its order. [...]
Recent announcements for the upcoming UBUNTU Developer Summit will drastically change the shape and direction of the cell phone and PDA world. Inter-operability is at the forefront as evidenced by Blackberry's port to Windows Mobile and UBUNTU is driving some of the changes. [...]
Skype, the well-known VoIP (voice over IP) software provider, has never been known for its quickness in getting Linux releases out, but about a year after the company started work on Skype 1.3, it has announced the release of the alpha for Skype 1.4. [...]
I'm a big fan of Google Earth and it seems like everyone is fascinated by its features. But there is another time wasting program out there for all the techies. You've probably heard of Web sites like FboWeb and FlightAware that allow you to track the position of an airline flight and see data like the plane's speed and altitude. FboWeb offers a 3D tracker in conjunction with Google Earth. Trust me, it's completely awesome. [...]
Dreaming of building your own super-high-capacity flash drive? Addonics has created a cool little adapter that lets you sandwich two flash drives together and then replace the 2.5” hard drive in a notebook. They also have models that will fit a SATA controller as well as IDE. [...]
One very exciting addition to the BlackBerry 8800 is the MicroSD card slot. MicroSD is a small, removable flash memory card format. The cards are small, about the size of a fingernail, or about one quarter the size of a standard SD card. All devices which support SD cards can support microSD cards using an SD card adapter, which is often included in the package of a microSD card. Unfortunately, the Blackberry 8800 is limited to 1GB due to OS limitations of reading past 1024. Perhaps there will be an update in the future, but it’s unlikely. [...]
