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Archive for March 23rd, 2007

Motion-sensing comes to mobile phones

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

The same technology used in Nintendo’s popular Wii video game console that lets you bowl strikes and hit tennis volleys like you’re Venus Williams is also making its way into mobile handsets.
Responding to a flick of the wrist or sweep of the arm, tiny sensors called accelerometers, which measure linear acceleration in the Wiimote game [...]

SAM Linux 2007 targets older, underpowered PCs

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

SAM Linux 2007, a light-weight PCLinuxOS-based live/installation CD featuring the Xfce 4.4 desktop and a 2.6.18.6 kernel, was released for free download today. SAM 2007 is positioned as a complete desktop environment that is suitable for older hardware.
According to the project team, “To run SAM all you need is at least 128MB of RAM and [...]

Mac vs. PC: How Would Linux Fit?

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

Personally I love those Mac vs PC advertisements, but throw in Linux and they’re even better. Here’s a couple YouTube videos from Novell that made me giggle! And of course I love the fact that Linux is a woman!!

Source: Reverend Ted

~LC

Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox

VLC beyond the basics

Friday, March 23rd, 2007

 
VideoLAN’s VLC is a cross-platform media player with a simple interface that doesn’t require a degree in rocket science to operate. That doesn’t mean, however, that VLC is a simplistic application: it has a few tricks up its sleeve that can…
VLC is a program that comes in handy a lot for a lot of [...]

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