Unless you’ve been completely off the grid in the last few days, you’ll have heard all about the iPhone 4G prototype that was left in a bar in Redwood City, California. The phone was found and subsequently sold to Gizmodo.com for $5,000. Gizmodo, a massive gadget news site, who’s posts...

This month, there are big things happening in the world of operating systems. Microsoft is releasing its hugely anticipated Windows 7, while Canonical will trot out its latest Ubuntu release, 9.10, or the Karmic Koala as it’s known to its friends. At this moment in time I have installed on my PC...

It’s that time of the year again, when we are treated to the latest Ubuntu release. As per usual you have all the latest Gnome packages and little tweaks here and there, but here are the 3 features I am most looking forward to. 1. New Notifications Ubuntu now has a new notification system. you...

A friend of mine recently bought a 120GB iPod Classic, and it got me thinking, thats a hell of a lot of storage space for music, how much space is ‘enough’ space? Right, apparently, a 120GB player will hold 30,000 songs, assuming these are all 4 minutes long, thats 2000 hours, or 83.3 days worth...

Hi Everyone, I just had the privilege nay, the honour, of having to recover my computer from total destruction. I was fiddling around with my GRUB (a bootloader), and somehow erased everything in the main configuration file, /boot/grub/menu.lst Naturally, when I tried to boot the next time, GRUB panicked...

If you have read my previous post in relation to the new Ubuntu release, you would be forgiven for thinking that I’m scathing and negative about it, but it’s not the case! After my bad experience last week after upgrading directly from Hardy to Intrepid I burnt an ISO of the release candidate...

I decided not to wait to install the latest version of Ubuntu, the Intrepid Ibex, so I took the plunge with the beta, and got wet! Installations was a breeze, running the command update-manager -d runs the update manager, which does the whole thing for you, after all was installed, I had to reboot,...

Recently I read a post about 10 reasons as to why Linux is worse than Windows, which was itself a reply to another post. Read the original here. I’m now going to systematically tear his argument to shreds! 1. Updating programs manually isn’t that bad I disagree, ok, it’s fine to update...

Recently, as a birthday present, my parents split the price of a new laptop with me. I wanted something sleek with a good screen, and, very importantly, a smaller than 15.4″ screen size. I settled on the Dell XPS M1330. It was the obvious choice, as it ticked all the boxes, and had a decent 128MB...