The name of a wireless hands-free communication and entertainment system is Sync. For $395 you get possibility to connect various devices such mobile phones, portable media players etc to your car audio system. Additionally Sync includes integrated diagnostics system, which gives vehicle health report to the driver, and, of course, navigation system. In my opinion, it’s really good and useful. The number of mobiles devices […]
What can be done from one barrel of oil
A look at what’s inside a barrel of oil and what products come from it:
Big maintenance in next Saturday
After a few days booting my home PC with errors in the filesystem I decided to do a big re-installation. Currently I have two HDDs: one with Windows XP and another – with Kubuntu 7.04 and LinuxMCE 0704. The hard drive with Kubuntu is too old and it has some bad blocks. So, I bought a new HDD and scheduled on next Saturday re-install everything […]
Skype for Linux with video support
Recently I installed the latest Skype for Linux (2.0.0.43) on my both systems: Fedora 8 and Kubuntu 7.04. I was surprised because the video calls really work. We talked with one of my friends about 40 minutes (he uses Windows). The quality of sound and picture is good (we both have DSL Internet connection). Not sure how it’ll be for dial-up. Currently I cannot test […]
From Russia with love
A set of photos from Russia where that winter is very cold in some areas. As you might see the temperature is -50 degrees! Once when I lived in the Russian North there was -48C. It was very cold but much better (thanks to low level of humidity) then -20C in St. Petersburg.
iPhone stores preference for your car
Land Rover LRX concept car sports an iPhone dock. It provides an amazing features! When docked, the iPhone would upload your music, seat settings, steering wheel settings, and all the information for the car’s “transfigurable displays.” So, now you can have your car preferences on the your phone in addition to music, video and emails. Useful feature isn’t it? [via Engadget]
Russian Duma in action
The main target of Russian Duma (Russian parliament) is a passing of new lows or modification old ones. You can see some of the new representatives in action.
Shuttle $199 Linux PC
Shuttle has announced a budget PC in compact form-factor with funny skins. Just for $199 you will get “an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB hard drive. What it won’t have: an optical drive or a PCI Express slot. Despite that, it’s a pretty good-looking box, and comes in red, blue, white, and black, each with […]