I was recently using Nokia’s N96 which is an impressive phone. The phone has a great camera, flash, a nice screen size, bluetooth, wifi, an impressive 16GB of storage space and it even plays DTV. I switched it for an Android G1.
A while ago we tended to switch phones when the hardware got better. A [...]

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One of the reasons why I don’t like iPods is the entire philosophy of having everything closed and according to the likes of Apple. But, fortunately the open source community is too awesome and have developed a firmware that we can install on several different audio devices.
Rockbox is a bit like an operating system for [...]

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I’m glad to report back saying the attempt to install the Ubuntu Eee 8.04 was a success. Now my Eee 4G is quite a sexy machine. I’ll detail for you the steps involved in the whole installation and tweaks.
1) Install
Head over to the Ubuntu Eee Download and Install page to get the first part done. [...]

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I’ve been using the eee PC for about 4 months now with the default Xandros OS. I’ve done a couple of tweaks to install some programs like Gimp and KeePass. But, I’m still not completely satisfied.
The default eee PC OS still doesn’t have the latest versions of Firefox, OpenOffice, and the hassle to update these [...]

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So far we’ve covered open source programs you can run on your computer. Most often they’re safer, lighter, and able to have you get the task done just as easily as proprietary equivalents.
Now, we’ll take it to the next level and talk about entire operating systems you can use on your machine. With an open [...]

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