Category Archives: Free Software

libiphone/ifuse 0.9.5

11/24/2009 – 8:26 am

So it’s been quite a while since I first started this journey, but iPhone support in Linux has progressed to the point that you can sync your music and even read some of your contact/calendar data. Today we take another step forward with the latest release of libiphone/ifuse. See the project page for more information.

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Google Chrome OS on Dell D600

11/20/2009 – 8:59 am

So unless you have been hiding under a rock (in the online world) you’ve heard of Chrome OS, Google’s lightweight netbook operating system. Yesterday it was released as open source and I decided to give it ago. (The steps below are for Ubuntu Karmic, but you should be able to translate to other linux platforms.) [...]

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VNC to OSX in Ubuntu

10/28/2009 – 10:40 am

So I’ve had a Mac Mini for a while and I prefer to access it over VNC so I had been using xtightvncviewer. However it would occasionally not update parts of the screen or lose the mouse and I would have to login again. For the most part it worked. Well today I had enough [...]

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