Mind the gap

Hacking the Motorola A780

Today I discovered an interesting blog of one guy who digs Motorola A780. Motorola A780 is a smartphone based on Linux. I like this phone (at least visually) but I don’t need to its features and it’s still too expensive. Maybe, this blog will be helpful for my friends 😉

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Schedule tasks with Quartz

One of the important problems of big projects is scheduling and running some background tasks. Perl or PHP based applications can use abilities of operation system (crontab for OS *NIX, for example) and scripts. For Java/J2EE based projects it’s difficult to realise this possibility. One solution is to use Quartz. Quartz is opensource framework which allows to schedule jobs as many as you need. Also […]

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Speed Up Your Firefox

The best web browser of the world – Firefox can be better with a new extension – http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/index.html. Fastfox speeds up Firefox by tweaking settings. Also, it displays a millisecond page load timer which can used to test effectiveness of your settings.

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WikiHow

WikiHow is a set of how-to manuals created as wiki. WikiHow covers many life aspects like Arts & Hobbies, Finance & Business, Automotive, Computers & Electronics etc. Feel free to read and add your howto there.

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Convert a DVD for your iPod

An article “Convert a DVD for your iPod (with video)” describes howto convert a DVD to iPod video under Windows. I don’t have iPod and what is more I don’t have a DVD player yet! So, for me it’s useless information. But it can be interesting for Leonid who likes watch movies. iPod will help him to do it everywhere 🙂 via Engadget

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Improve usability of your GNOME desktop

Howto Improve usability of your GNOME desktop is not an article, this is a big post in the Ubuntu forum. The author described some common problems with using GNOME as desktop and gave ways to resolve them. Personally, I like and use KDE. In my mind currently it’s the best desktop environment for Linux. I’m wating release of KDE 4 also known as Plasma. Hope […]

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Hitech Race

A Stanford University team won a crazy prize – $2 million – on Sunday for sending a modified Volkswagen Touareg across 132 miles of rugged desert, guided only by sensors and computers. Twenty-three driverless vehicles were sent into the Mojave Desert but Stanford was the best. The race of cars which were driven by computers was organized and sponsored by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research […]

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Driving A Million Dollars Baby

After five years hard work Bugatti Veyron has released. Now it’s the world’s fastest production car: speeding-up from 0 to 100 km/h – 2.5 sec, top speed ~ 405 km/h, the price – about $800,000! It’s amazing! You can fly on Veyron without wings. Here you can read an article from Auto Express magazine about test-drive of Bugatti Veyron.

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