Cuttlefish is a great little application that arose from the recent Ubuntu App Showdown. It basically allows you to ‘react’ automatically to certain system stimuli. For example, un-muting your speakers when Rhythmbox is loaded up. I won’t go into to much detail here as I’ve just wrote a post all about Cuttlefish for OMG! Ubuntu! you can check it out using the link below:... »
Of late passwords are becoming increasingly complicated to manage. You can't have a simple word as a password, it needs capital letters, random characters, numbers and a whole lot more – of course that's only for people who don't want to get hacked. It would be simple if you could use just one password for everything but evidently that's a no no too these days considering one strong site... »
Android phones have the most hold over international smartphone markets. About 51% of the population of smartphone users has an Android. The Android App Market is the richest market there is when it comes to giving out the best array and variety of apps. But unfortunately, there is a dark side which accompanies this amazing app planet: Android spy apps. The Android platform entertains third party ... »
I had intended to use part 4 to spend a lot of time discussing the merits and demerits of Firefox for mobile android, but by Thursday morning, my enthusiasm for Mozilla's web browser had evaporated. I pulled up Chrome, logged back in and relegated Firefox to viewing work email and documents (via Google apps). See, while Firefox is a fine second fiddle on the desktop, it's not terribly useful... »
After several rumours and leaks revealed last week, Google has officially announced that Play Store gift cards are going to be available at select US-only store locations very soon, with no word on international availability unfortunately. The cards are available in $10, $25 and $50 denominations so if you’ve purchased the card in the future and want to redeem it, visit http://play.google... »
So it's been roughly five days of living in Firefox. I installed and synced the browser successfully across my two laptops, tablet and phone and was ready to get to work. During the last two days, I went about using Firefox for my daily needs: email, writing google docs, content management for a website with WordPress, note taking and more. I can't report that everything went well. But I'll ... »
So last Friday I decided to see what life on the web would be like if I ditched Chrome as my daily browser to go with Firefox. See here. Before I set out to really test what Firefox could do I needed to look into Firefox’s sync capabilities. The best part about Chrome is the seamlessness of syncing across desktop and mobile. I have two laptops — a System76 Lemur Ultra (my work mach... »
Adobe Flash was really, believe it or not, a major selling point to pick an Android device over a device running iOS or WP7, when it had announced back in 2010 that all devices running Android 2.2 and up would be able to support Flash. Today this is not the case, as Adobe previously announced it would no longer be supporting the platform after Android 4.0, and Google silently emphasizing it... »