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Sound Woes on Linux

09-Jun-09

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A common issue I find with Linux is sound. The latest bump is when I installed openSUSE 11.1 on my HP M9351 Desktop, to be fair, it’s not a show stopper but infinitely annoying. Basically, I cannot play sound only through the headphones, and instead it continues playing via speakers plus headphones and [...]

Nokia N97 vs. Samsung i8910

03-Jun-09

Image by Paul Jacobson via Flickr

I have two phones in mind for my future, and both are good, these are the main deciders for me
Nokia N97
+ QWERTY keyboard & touch screen
+ Nokia has proven track record at providing useful firmware updates
+ 32 GB internal memory
+ OVI App Store, Nokia online marketplace
+ Reliable S60 5th Edition [...]

Data recovery with SystemRescueCD

20-Mar-09

Today a colleague had some issues with logging on to Windows XP and getting to his files that he needed, and so, it gave me an opportunity to try out SystemRescueCD which is a Linux live CD, i.e, doesn’t require installation just runs straight from CD. I’ve heard it being mentioned several times for data [...]

Youtube released a native s60 application

19-Mar-09

Good news for all the YouTube and Symbian S60 lovers out there YouTube has released a native client for viewing videos on your mobile phone. Even though there were 3rd party solutions such as emtube (which has been fallen by the wayside with the official site down for several months ) and  and MobiTubia (which [...]