Good news for all ebook and Kindle fans who live outside US. Amazon decided to sell its Kindle for the rest world. Its price is very attractive – $279 (about €190) plus shipping. Personally I like Kindle. In my opinion its design is perfect. The rest ebook readers look not so nice but they provide more wide functionality such support Russian language or FB2 book […]
Additional mysql server UTF8 confutation
I spent a few day with patching LinuxMCE database connection to pass UTF8 option to the server. But without luck. However I found a way to configure mysql server to skip client’s request about charset and send all data in the defined one. To do that just add following lines in the my.cnf file under mysqld section: [mysqld] init_connect=’SET NAMES utf8; SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci;’ […]
Traffic jams map with camera view from Yandex
Russian company Yandex which offers a lot of useful services and has Google’s vision of the web business (IMHO) recently announced Moscow map map with traffic jams and live cameras view! That’s really cool service and I didn’t see anything similar before. Additionally there are panoramic views. Similar as Google has. I’m waiting when the live cameras will be added for St. Petersburg. Or at […]
Next generation of Nokia Internet Tablet
The next generation of Nokia Internet Tablet will sport 3G HSPA, a TI OMAP3 processor, OpenGL graphics accelerator, and will run Maemo 5 OS the first release of which SDK was done recently. Supporting of 3G network will give more choices for people to stay online. [via The Nokia Blog]
KDE 4.1 useful tips and tricks
Preface When I tried KDE 4.0 first time a few monthes ago I was very disappointed. The system was absolutely unusable. Mainly it was the reason why I didn’t upgrade my Fedora to version 9. But after 10 was released I decided to make an upgrade. I thought that KDE 4.1 should be better. It’s really better but to setup my accustomed environment I spent […]
E65, alarm and blocked navigation buttons
When I got Nokia E65 last year I faced with strange problem. After alarm was triggered the navigation buttons (including Own key were disabled). To make them work the phone should be restarted. Recently I found solution to solve that (thanks to forum on allnokia.ru). Using Tracker – advanced and fully customizable desktop application we reassign navigation buttons to the same actions. After that all […]
Nokia announced Qt Extended mobile platform
It seems that Nokia is going to produce a competitor of Android platform: Nokia announced today the launch of Qt Extended 4.4, a complete mobile and embedded development platform based on the open source Qt toolkit. It is designed with a modular architecture that provides building blocks for assembling a Linux-based software stack for various embedded devices ranging from phones to set-top boxes. Nokia already […]
Google Chrome: hot or not?
Today Google is not just the best search engine in the world. It provides hosting for domain mail, on-line office, web mail service, RSS reader and much more. That’s why nobody was surprised when Google announced its web browser Chrome. Taking into account the quality of existing services people expect Chrome will be faster, more stable and more user friendly then Firefox or Opera. And […]