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 […]
KDE4 Applications Crash Beautifully
KDE4 is gonna be perfect: cool 3D effects, amazing usability, good performance. So, even application crash will look impressive (see picture above). But hope we’ll see that screen very rarely 🙂
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 […]
Chat with AIM, Yahoo! and MSN buddies from Gizmo.
Gizmo Project, a Skype competitor, announced a support AIM, Yahoo! and MSN. Now you can chat or talk with your buddies just adding them into your Gizmo contact list. Simple instruction can be found by typing “Help” in the chat window or online. Gizmo Project is available for Internet Tablet Nokia770/N800 and it’s used for LJ Talk. Advantage of Gizmo Project is that it’s based […]