Archive for category Itechlog News
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 [...]
Digg on The Go App for Android and the iPhone
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Mobile Phones on April 2nd, 2010
Digg.com has announced the availability of the Digg on the go App for Android phones and iPhones. To download the app just visit http://m.digg.com and install the the application. Check out the the official announcement. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Buzz it up Share on Orkut share via [...]
Books for sale – Linux Shell, Qmail Handbook and SSL/TLS
Posted by Alex Costa in Books, Itechlog News, Linux, Programming on March 26th, 2010
I have selling on Amazon.co.uk a copy of each of the following books: Linux Shell Scripting with Bash (Paperback) (SOLD) by Ken O. Burtch (Author) Linux Shell Scripting with Bash will help you learn to not only get your system up and running quickly by employing the Bash shell, but it will also show you [...]
The future of gaming is OpenGL
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Linux, Open Source on March 11th, 2010
As a Linux user and Open Source enthusiast I always want to see people moving away from the proprietary stuff and into the Open Source world, but sometimes it’s easier to keep them where they are (stuck to Windows), specially when it comes to gaming. I am not a gamer, and would rather spend my [...]
Request the Audible.com books application for Android
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News, Mobile Phones on March 11th, 2010
I am deeply shocked at audible.com for not having an app for Android. They claim that “the Android media player does not allow playback of our titles“… right. Anyway they are now attempting to get the ball rolling for an App for Android in 2010. There’s a signup for upcoming beta testing on their website [...]
Campaign for the right to create, forward and follow links
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News on January 20th, 2010
There has been a talk for while about news agencies blocking bloggers, aggregators and search engines from indexing their content. This has started to become a reality when the Times Online decided to block the news aggregator site newsnow.co.uk. In response Struan Bartlett the founder of NewsNow started the right2click campaign. Watch his campaign video. [...]
Microsoft’s attempt to bribe its way to the top
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News on December 11th, 2009
Once again Microsoft is showing it’s dirty claws. According to a report in the Financial Times (also mentioned in the KPMRS Blog), Microsoft is planing to offer to pay publishers to remove their content from Google in an attempt to make its search engine Bing (no link on purpose) the #1 search engine. According to [...]
Google Chrome Beta for Linux
Posted by Alex Costa in Itechlog News on December 8th, 2009
Google has announced the release of a beta version of its browser Google Chrome for Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/OpenSuse). Here are a few facts from the Google Chrome team: 60,000 lines of Linux-specific code written 23 developer builds 2,713 Linux-specific bugs fixed 12 external committers and bug editors to the Google Chrome for Linux code base, 48 [...]
