Archives for December 2007

Bad Ram

I do apologize beforehand if this blog post is a bit less exciting and less intellectual than my previous ones, but everynow and then a guy needs to publically rant. As you may or may not know, BlueSata is a machine I built myself. I love this computer, I love how its configured and how [...]

Nokia is doing it again

So, i’m flooded with work this week, finals being next week and all but I came across this press release by nokia and was floored. I don’t know what air duct cupid used to get into Nokia’s CEO’s office but thank you Mr. air conditioning repairman for forgetting to seal the vent. There are very [...]

Youtube downloader/transcoder Update

Added the tinyest bit of polish to the downloader. Also, you now download a .zip instead of a .3gp. This is OK because the N95 handles zips very elegantly (and consistently!). And, the .3gp’s seem to work 100% when they come form the zip. And it also saves the tinyest bit of data. Also, a [...]

Wine Weekly Newsletter

As of today I am officially the new writer of the Wine Weekly Newsletter (WWN). Wine is a layer that sits inbetween linux and windows applications allowing you to run windows apps (windows API calls) on native linux. I presume most of my readers will be familiar with this software. Head over here to read [...]

Downloading youtube on non-youtube capable phones

So, as many of you will know most phone’s browsers are incapable of properly displaying and playing youtube. There are several work arounds; one of my favorites being bywifi.com‘s solution. Their solution is to have a website where cell users can search and browse youtube in a mobile-capable fashion (so they parse youtube) then let [...]