Archive for May, 2009
Mozilla FENNEC – the Firefox gone mobile
Posted by Alex Costa in Open Source on May 21st, 2009
Bringing Firefox‘s features, security, performance and ease-of-use to mobile phones. Fennec is yet in it’s Beta 1 version, it has been built on the same technology as the world famous Mozilla Firefox and has many of the same features. Tabbed browsing One-click bookmarking Super easy navigation Add-on ons (Firefox style) touch-enabled interfaced optimized for the [...]
GIMP Tutorial and book
Posted by Alex Costa in Open Source, Tutorials, Web Design on May 20th, 2009
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. GIMP is a versatile graphics manipulation package and it works on Linux, Windows, Mac, OpenSolaris and FreeBSD. It is also available in many languages. The official GIMP Project website [...]
Spotify – listen to more than three million tracks legally and for free
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News on May 17th, 2009
Spotify is a streaming service, which lets fans listen to more than three million tracks legally and for “free”, it has more than a million users in the UK already. The system has 3 packages on offer, starting with “Free” (showing ads between songs), a Day Pass £0.99 (ad free) for 24hrs and a Premium [...]
Intel Fined 1.6bn Euros
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News on May 14th, 2009
Intel has been fined 1.6bn Euros by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices. This is the biggest fine for a major corporation since the 2004 Microsoft 497m Euro fine. The Commission found that between 2002 and 2007, Intel had paid manufacturers and a retailer to favour its chips over AMD chips. Intel claims that such [...]
Automatically display form data with PHP
Posted by Alex Costa in PHP, Web Programming on May 13th, 2009
This is a simple PHP script to automatically display (dump output) data submited from a html form. The form setup all inputs (form fields) need to have the same name with [] at the end to turn it into an array, e.g <input type=text name=formdata[]> formq.html content <form method=post action=showme.php> Name: <input type=text name=formdata[]><br> Email: [...]
Offline Blogging Tools
Posted by Alex Costa in Easy Tips, Itechlog News, Linux, Wordpress on May 12th, 2009
Offline Blogging Tools let you comfortably write and effortlessly publish new entries to your blog. I personally like the easy to use Scribefire, a Firefox addon, but there are many others our there. Here is a shortlist… Scribefire Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux This is an addon for Firefox so you need to be using Firefox [...]
Windows 7 RC available now
Posted by Alex Costa in Windows on May 5th, 2009
The Release Candidate for Windows 7 is now available to the public. Their servers have been struggling to deal with the demand of downloads according to the ZDnet website. There has been a lot of talk about Windows 7 being the OS that will release Microsoft of the embarrassment of Vista, it’s said to look [...]
