Microsoft finally joins the browser wars with IE9
As read on the IE developers blog today, it appears the encouraged engineers have finally started to look out of their basement windows. In the recent months most sites talking about the development of...
View ArticleBig news soon; let’s see if this hype-thing works
Yes, really great stuff coming up… For a hint click to read more of the post… http://www.libimobiledevice.org/
View ArticleNative iPhone/iPod Touch support arrives on the Linux Desktop
Last Sunday, after being in development since August 2007, Matt Colyer released version 1.0.0 of the libimobiledevice library (formerly known as libiphone). libimobiledevice is a free open source...
View ArticleLinux, the iPad, iPhone OS 4.0 and libimobiledevice support
Even if you are not tech-savy, you should have noticed by now that Apple released it’s new product, the iPad, to the masses. This new device can simply be compared to an iPod Touch with a huge display....
View ArticleReleased evolution-statusicon 1.0.4. Show/hide Evolution from the...
If you are like me and you are annoyed by the Evolution bugging you in your ALT+TAB cycle as you have it running almost all the time you will probably like this one. Back last year I wrote a simple...
View ArticlePasscode Security Flaw Update: it’s a bug in the iPhone OS, not a hack of...
News spread yesterday after Bernd Marienfeldt discovered a security issue with passcode enabled iPhone devices still being accessible using a stock Ubuntu 10.04 system and now reaching major sites on...
View ArticleiOS 4.0 released: libimobiledevice and music sync with Linux
Apple has blessed us with a new major release of their operating system for their iDevice range of products. As a lot of people started to ask if one is still able to synchronize music using libgpod on...
View ArticleLatest on GNOME, Totem AirPlay, libimobiledevice 1.2.0, iOS 4.3,...
A typical plague of the internetz has hit this blog. It had no posts for a long time. -silence- I am sorry for this, but even if it might surprise some people, sometimes there are more important things...
View ArticleView PSD (Photoshop) files on Linux Desktop with GNOME using gdk-pixbuf-psd
If you are often handling PSD files on your system, you might have issues to preview those on your Linux Desktop system. For the GNOME Desktop, the file-manager does not display thumbnails of the...
View ArticleColor management with colord and gnome-color-manager on openSUSE 12.1 with...
After wondering why my displays didn’t show up in the GNOME3 settings dialog I started to investigate… First I thought running the NVIDIA binary driver 304.37, which now supports xRandr 1.3, would...
View ArticleGTK+ 3 support for nautilus-ideviceinfo
I had a brief slip of time and finally updated the nautilus-ideviceinfo project to work with the latest GNOME desktop by porting it to GTK+ 3. nautilus-ideviceinfo is a nautilus extension showing...
View ArticleopenSUSE 32 bit to 64 bit update fairy tale
Hell yeah, I joined the fun of the flu pandemic here in Germany. Once you start to recover a bit though, crazy ideas float your mind. For instance the idea of live upgrading or converting an openSUSE...
View ArticleGNOME 3.16 and NVIDIA binary driver ‘BadMatch’ crash with totem, gnome-maps,...
Update 03.07.15: The crash issue has been fixed in clutter >= 1.22.4 and clutter-gtk >= 1.6.2. I’ve planned to update my openSUSE Linux desktop running GNOME 3.14 to the recently released GNOME...
View ArticleGraphical boot screen on openSUSE with NVIDIA 364.x binary driver using Plymouth
With the recent 364.x releases of the NVIDIA binary drivers, KMS (Kernel-Mode-Setting) support for Linux was added. Although this doesn’t mean you get a nice high resolution console (yet), it allows...
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