Mailing lists is a one of the most popular ways to get support for many open source projects. But it’s not so comfortable for me (I prefer RSS). Recently I found very interesting project – Gmane. It’s translate mailing lists to the web and offers RSS channels for them. There is a possibility to add a new mailing lists if it’s not presented in Gmane. […]
Move your bookmarks to Delicios
Delicios – the best online social bookmarks system has announced a great feature. Now it’s possible import bookmarks from your favourite web browser directly to Delicios. Don’t worry. All imported bookmarks will be private and nobody will be able to see them till you change their status on public. Import bookmarks from the file with traditional Netscape bookmark format is a good reason to start […]
Google USB Mouse Pad
Google released a simple but very useful combination mouse pad and USB hub. It contains four USB ports, compatible with USB 1.1, Google logo on the mouse-friendly hardtop surface. Thanks to Google! The price is very reasonable. It’s just $20.
Gateway for digital TV
Company Sling Media released Slingbox – geek device which allows to stream digital TV from Freeview/PVR/Sky box over LAN. It also supports remote control. Integration with SlingPlayer Mobile allows to watch digital TV on PDA or smartphone. For more information have a look a full list of Slingbox features. Here you can see a couple photos of Slingbox. $249.99 for this device is very reasonable […]
VLC on Nokia770
Nokia770 seems very popular and power device. It’s time to watch a digital TV on it using VLC. VLC is well-known the cross-platform media player and streaming server. It might be interesting to port it under Nokia770 because it has Wi-Fi connection and can be used as mobile terminal to watch video stream from your home VDR server for example. I found the post Porting […]
Bluetooth GPS, GPSDrive and Nokia 770
Another geek solution for Nokia 770 – How to use it to display GPS information. There is a detailed explanation of installation and configuration of Nokia 770. Also, the author evaluated strong and weak aspects to use Nokia 770 for this purpose.
Extreamly mini PC
I found this mini PC when I read Plutohome support forum. This is Jack PC. It looks like a wall outlet but inside this miniature you can find: AMD Au1550 Alchemy processor, 500 MHz RISC (equivalent to 1.2 GHz x86TC Processor) RAM 128 MB DDR, 400 MHz Video – 1600×1200 16M (True Color) 10/100 Fast Ethernet, twisted pair (RJ-45) with Auto-negotiate 4 USB 2.0 compatible […]
Let car control the distance
Nissan has announced an electronic system that helps drivers control the distance between their car and the vehicle in front. As you can see on the picture there is a front bumper-mounted radar sensor to determine the following distance and the relative speed of both cars. The system notifys the driver about danger sytuation by a lighted indicator and a buzzer, automatically moves gas pedal […]