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April 9, 2010 at 20:33 · Filed under Apple, Code, Gadgets, Linux, Open Source
Even if you are not tech-savy, you should have noticed by now that Apple released it’s new product, the iPad, to the masses. This new device can simply be compared to an iPod Touch with a huge display. That’s it.
Now Apple had a keynote event yesterday and among other stuff presented the features of the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0.
This new OS version will provided for the iPad this fall alongside iPhone 3G/3GS and iPod Touches 2G/3G this summer. Developer builds are already available and some videos of the new features like multitasking (technically it’s just an illusion though) already fill up the internet tubes.
With the recent news about libimobiledevice and native Linux support for these devices some important questions rise that i’ll try to answer:
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March 23, 2010 at 15:07 · Filed under Apple, Code, Fun, GNOME, Linux, Media, Open Source, openSUSE
Last Sunday, after being in development since August 2007, Matt Colyer released version 1.0.0 of the libimobiledevice library (formerly known as libiphone).
libimobiledevice is a free open source software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone ® and iPod Touch ® devices natively on Linux.
Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking.
It was successfully tested with the iPhone and iPod Touch 1G, 2G, 3G and 3GS models running up to firmware 3.1.3.
So what does it mean for me as a desktop user?
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February 8, 2010 at 16:51 · Filed under Apple, Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, Research
Yes, really great stuff coming up…
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September 15, 2009 at 18:22 · Filed under Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source
Audio/Video chat is the “next” big thing and a lot of people use Skype already to get that functionality on Linux without much hazzle (certainly a few use Ekiga aswell).
Just recently the popular instant messenger Pidgin joined the ranks with their 2.6 release which introduced A/V chat for Jabber (XMPP) users.
However, finally it looks like there will be a decent way on Linux to have A/V chat with the very popular MSN protocol!
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August 25, 2009 at 10:07 · Filed under Life, Linux, Open Source
I recently have been asked this:
It’s actually quite simple.
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