10 days ago, I bought a tablet (and my first Android device, BTW). Since nearly all of my tech is from Samsung and I was mostly satisfied with all of it, I picked the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 instead of the Asus MeMO Pad. Possibly a mistake. The Good The hardware of the device works [...]
Third post in a series of short introductions of MY favorite Linux applications There are some good text editors available on Linux (Geany e.g.), but Enki became my favorite within days. It is quick and simple, but includes syntax highlighting for lots of common coding languages. Except simple note taking, I use it most often [...]
Second post in a series of short introductions of MY favorite Linux applications Cause of actual decisions made by Google, I have replaced some Google services. Since I guess, that many people are looking for a replacement for Google Reader at the moment, I’ll introduce TinyTinyRSS to you first. For me, it’s a perfect replacement [...]
First post in a series of short introductions of MY favorite Linux applications I was close to giving up after trying out countless wannabe iTunes replacements on Linux (RhythmBox, Banshee, aTunes, Nightingale, Guadeloupe, Exaile, Amarok). While Banshee and Nightingale may be worth a look if you shouldn’t like my choice, I really don’t know why [...]
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In these tutorials, we will create a Super-Mario-like jump&run using C++ and SFML. First I will show you how to install Qt-Creator and how to setup a little SFML test app. I’ve chosen Qt-Creator since it’s the IDE that I usually use for C++, it’s free and external libraries are much easier to include than [...]
Since Microsoft will stop making OSs for desktop PCs (Windows 8 is a phone/tablet OS!), it was time to upgrade my Linux alternative (Ubuntu 10.4) to a more actual distribution, cause it hadn’t qualified as a full-time replacement of Windows. Newest Ubuntu was no (convenient) option cause Gnome 3 and Unity are intolerable (out of [...]
Yesterday I got my newest gadget – an iRiver Story HD. Thought about buying an e-reader since the first Kindle came out, but always hesitated cause of DRM. The issue still exists, of course, but on the other hand there are so many free classics available that these alone would justify the buy. I just [...]