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HTML5:Up and Running book out now
Posted by Alex Costa in Books on August 24th, 2010
HTML5: Up and Running By Mark Pilgrim Publisher: O’Reilly Media Now Available at Amazon: U.S.A or UK Even though work on HTML5 is ongoing, browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, Opera, and Chrome already support many of its features — and browsers for smart phones are even farther ahead, especially iPhone’s MobileSafari browser. With HTML5: Up [...]
LinuxCon 2010 Just for Fun Poll Results explained
Posted by Alex Costa in Linux on August 12th, 2010
The results of the “Just for Fun” Poll linux.com community have just been released. You may be wondering what some of those weird names actually mean, so here goes a short guide for those, like myself, who are not up to date with it all. Best new Kernel Feature Btrfs: is a new copy on [...]
Opencart simple and great e-commerce system
Posted by Alex Costa in Open Source on August 5th, 2010
For a long time I have been very frustrated with e-commerce systems, from my self built one all the way to Magento. That was until I came across OpenCart. It’s a great system, easy to use and to develop for. Installation takes 5 minutes, it has all the modules you need to run a successful [...]
Virginmedia has bad customer service
Posted by Alex Costa in Bad and Ugly, Connectivity on July 12th, 2010
Having had services from Virgin Media before I decide to go back with them for my broadband at my new place. I did that against all the bad comments from others about their bad customer services and slowness in getting your connection setup. Well here is how it went. Called Virgin Media to setup connection.. [...]
Mobile Apps overload?
Posted by Alex Costa in Mobile Phones on May 24th, 2010
The “There’s an App for that” claim for the iPhone makes me cringe. How many of the Apps we have in our mobile devices do we actually use? I am not a good exmaple to start with as I am not an early adopter of anything technical and I tend to stay away from what [...]
How software patent broke the system
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Linux, Multimedia, Open Source on May 18th, 2010
The issue of Software Patent has been around for a while, but unless you really have the time and drive to try to understand all that is involved you will be left like most of us, just wondering. The guys at Patent Absurdity have made a great documentary about this issue. Patent Absurdity explores the [...]
