Blogging and social services and networks became popular more and more. So, producers of mobile phones couldn’t just stay and see this process. As result Sumsung released SGH-L760 – a mobile phone with can help you be not only mobile but social as well. It supports RSS Reader function, UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) and sports 2M camera and Bluetooth connectivity. The SGH-L760 allows to […]
Yahoo! Photos is closing
Today I received email about closing Yahoo! Photos: For some time now we’ve supported two great photo sharing services, Yahoo! Photos and Flickr. But even good things come to an end, and we’ve decided to focus all our efforts on Flickr – the award winning photo sharing site that Time Magazine has even called “completely addictive.†I don’t have any photos on Yahoo! Photos. So, […]
Upgraded to WordPress 2.2
I upgraded Smart Home Blog to the latest version of WordPress 2.2. As usual the upgrade procedure is extremely easy. But there were a few troubles with that version. 1. Dashboard didn’t work properly. It gave a error You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/index-extra.php on this server. The solution is to create a file .htaccess in the directory wp-admin and add there following lines: […]
Free online video converter
Yesterday Movavi launched Movavi Online – a web-based service that enables users to convert video from one format to another for sharing, podcasting, cellphones, iPods, and more. The service is free but with some limits such no DVD ripping, no merging many video files to one, no possibility to improve uploaded video by apply special filters and tools. But you may get those features and […]
Google Desktop now on Linux
Recently Google announced a Linux version of its Desktop. It allows to search in local files and internet from one interface. Google Desktop supports many types of files such documents, images, music etc (it takes information from service data I guess). Moreover, you can make a search in your search history (sounds funny – search in the search, but I use that feature often) and […]
A Secure Home WiFi Design
Since WiFi is available for home users it’s time to make WiFi network more secure. Daily Cup Of Tech explains how to build WiFi home network with good security. There are four steps which should be done: 1. Locks down the WiFi connection 2. Secures the wireless firewall 3. Restricts Internet access to pre-configured users 4. Segments home computers and servers from wireless users For […]
Be part of Twitter Mosaics
Twitter is extremely interesting thing in the web world. It can be used both for fun and for serious tasks such home automation. Today I discovered another its application – mosaics. On Twitter Mosaic you may find cool stuff created from Twitter users icons. So, if you use Twitter you can add Twitter Mosaic as a friend and your icon will be presented on the […]
Talk with you PC
If you’d like to control your Linux PC using voice commands than Perlbox Voice is what do you need. It’s a pure Perl application which features: Text to speech (Thanks to the Festival speech synthesizer) Voice control to open user specified applications. For example, if you say “Webâ€, the Perlbox-Voice Control will open the browser of your choice. Desktop plugins to control your Linux desktop […]