Chances are, if you are installing Android onto a desktop system, you will want to make use of the higher resolutions that are available, since your desktop probably has a bigger monitor than the average mobile phone or tablet. Android is quite flexible in the resolutions it offers, and most Android apps can take advantage of higher resolutions.
Read more »Installing Android x86 in VirtualBox
In a previous post I showed you how to install and configure the Android SDK emulator to boot up quickly. What you may have found out by now is that the emulator is incredibly slow. In fact it is only any good if you have the kind of PC that can render the entire Transformers movie in a few minutes.
Read more »Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop (With The Unity Desktop)
This tutorial shows how you can enable Compiz Fusion on an Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) desktop with the Unity interface (the system must have a 3D-capable graphics card which I assume it has because otherwise Unity wouldn't start, and GNOME would be used instead). With Compiz Fusion you can use beautiful 3D effects like wobbly windows or a desktop cube on your desktop.
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DE: Munich's move to a vendor independent desktop "on track"
The German city of Munich's migration to a vendor independent IT infrastructure is "in time, in budget and on track", says one of the external consultants involved in the project. The city aims to migrate about 80 percent of all the city's fifteen thousand desktop PCs to Ubuntu Linux.
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How to set the default program for a batch of filetypes in Linux Mint/Ubuntu
This small guide details how to change the default application for a batch of filetypes, for example all audio files or all video files, on Linux Mint and Ubuntu.
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LibreOffice 3.4.1 released, installation guide
LibreOffice 3.4.1 is ready to download and targets home deployments. Check out this guide to install LibreOffice on Debain-based Linux distributions.
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A quick look at rollApp, which puts your desktop apps in the cloud
I was interested in using rollApp for two reasons. First, it seems to provide a neat way to access those few Windows only applications that Linux users occasionally need access to. Although the functionality to upload an application and make it available through the rollApp infrastructure is not currently available, it is going to be a large part of the attraction of the service.
Read more »Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL, SquirrelMail (Fedora 15)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a MySQL database. I'll also demonstrate the installation and configuration of Courier (Courier-POP3, Courier-IMAP), so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL database Postfix uses.
Read more »New Identi.ca Share Button
"Identi.ca still doesn't have a proper share button. For a long time I've looked for a good Identi.ca share button. One like Twitter's, one that: displays a count of posts, and lets people share the page with the post automatically containing the page title and URL. I looked so long without finding anything that I wrote one myself.
Read more »Android App Build Environment Setup With Eclipse, PhoneGap (Ubuntu 11.04)
This tutorial describes how you can set up an development environment for building Android apps on an Ubuntu 11.04 desktop using Eclipse, the Android SDK, and PhoneGap. I will describe how to build Android apps from the command line with PhoneGap and from the GUI with Eclipse and PhoneGap and how to test them in an Android emulator and on a real Android device.
Read more »Ooo2gd and LibreOffice - Almost good enough for me to switch from Dropbox to Google Docs
Where cloud storage fails is when you just need to get access to one or two files, and your local application does not have any functionality for accessing files stored online. I find myself in this situation all the time with a few OpenOffice documents that are synced with a Dropbox account, but the Dropbox account itself is not synced with all the devices I use.
Read more »Play RIFT on Mac & Linux!
You are not in Azeroth anymore! Ever since the March 1, 2011 release of RIFT, Mac and Linux users have secretly wondered if they would be let into the World of Telara. Wonder no more dear Mac and Linux users...
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Wine 1.3.23 Released
The Wine development release 1.3.23 is now available. What's new in this release. Support for stubless COM proxies on x86-64. Builtin dxdiag now outputs real information. Monochrome bitmap format in the DIB engine. Beginnings of a true shell Explorer builtin. A number of new D3DX9 functions. More support for Indic text shaping. Various bug fixes.
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Unity Grab Handles Are Beautiful, Learn How to Enable it in Ubuntu 11.04
Unity Grab Handles are a fun and aesthetically beautiful way to resize windows in new Ubuntu Unity. Even though they are not enabled by default in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal, you can easily turn Unity Grab Handles on by following a few easy steps.
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Potential For Free Animation Software Dead?
"There was a time when I was obsessed with finding good, free, stable, Adobe Flash animation software, because at the time I was also obsessed with Homestar Runner and other online cartoons and I wanted to make my own.
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