Rooting your Android smartphone can offer some pretty amazing benefits, from simple things like the ability to take screenshots to the option to use your handset as a Wi-Fi hotspot.  Perhaps the most impressive, however, is the option to change the apps that are pre-installed on your ‘phone, and replace them with your own. In [...]

The aRSSduino is a simple project for the Arduino microcontroller, designed to display RSS feed entries on a 16×2 LCD.  It’s still in the early stages, with the following outstanding: To Do: Support for larger LCDs To Improve: Better UTF-8 character handling To Do: Multiple RSS feed support For now, however, it’s a pretty neat [...]

Having finished my articles this morning, I figured it was time for an apt-get dist-upgrade on the laptop to ensure I was running the latest versions of everything.  A quick download and install later, and it was time to reboot. At which point Firefox broke completely. No starty, no error – even when launched from [...]

Since my PC blew up – and took Windows with it – I’ve been gradually making the switch to using Linux as my everyday desktop operating system.  Although I’ve been using it on my laptops and netbooks for years, I’ve usually kept Windows on the desktop for one simple reason: TVersity. TVersity is an excellent [...]

My laptop is now officially Powered by Ubuntu, thanks to System 76 and the Linux Emporium. To snag yourself some free Ubuntu stickers, simply pop a self addressed envelope across to: The Linux Emporium Bridge House 17a Maybrook Road Sutton Coldfield Birmingham B76 1AL UK They’ll drop a pack of four by return of post.  [...]

Being a huge fan of Ubuntu, I’ve been using the OS on most of my hardware for quite some time – including my first release spec Eee PC 701. Originally running Ubuntu 7.04 and then upgraded to 7.10, it’s always been a bit ‘finicky’ – mainly as a result of the non-standard hacks I’ve had [...]