Android on HTC Kaiser (Tilt 8925)

Late last week I came into possession of an old AT&T Tilt 8925. At one point in time this was an impressive piece of mobile technology, however I am sure we all know this is no longer the case. The reason I was given the phone was because it was running Windows Mobile. The device ran slowly with this operating system and suffered from enough issues to cause both my mother and my older brother to get rid of it for other smart phones (Symbian...

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Elive 2.0 - Distro Review

Elive: Where Debian meets EnlightenmentThis is Elive's slogan. As I am sure you can guess, it is a Debian based distribution that uses the Enlightenment window manager. I always like to jump in with both feet when it comes to playing with technology, so to get the best feel for what Elive is and how it works I downloaded the LiveCD and installed it as the primary operating system on my Sager Laptop. First Impressions:Booting the LiveCD for...

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Alternative Unix Software Installation Methods

In one of my education classes this trimester we are getting to play with wonderful pieces of technology called "SMART Boards" Essentially a SMART board is an interactive white board, they are typically used in classrooms or occasionally in business meetings (if you have never played with one before I highly recommend you check them out, very fun). At any rate - we all know that hardware is fairly useless without good software to make it function properly. My teacher informed us the first day of class that the school would provide us with copies...

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Operating Systems and Market Share Statistics

Did you know that 55% of statistics are made up on the spot? (or maybe it was 68% I don't recall) If you have ever taken a statistics class you know that data is everything, but it's not just about the data itself. Whenever you see numbers you have to ask yourself:Where did these numbers come from?Is it a credible source?When it comes to market share and operating systems I've heard lots of numbers thrown around over the years and it is difficult to figure out which numbers you should put your faith in on this subject. For instance if your take...

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Steam Client and Source Games Porting to OSX

So the devil called me this afternoon and said they where having a snowstorm in hell.In other news Valve announced that their revolutionary "content delivery service" known as "Steam" is being ported to OSX and will be available as early as April 2010. No really its true, straight from the horse's mouth. In addition the actual client and "Steam-works" being brought to Apple's operating system Valve also plans to port all of the Source Engine games, these include:Half Life 2 SeriesCounter Strike: SourceTeam Fortress 2Left 4 Dead SeriesDay of Defeat:...

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Linux Video Editing with Openshot

In an earlier post I spoke of different pieces of software I had been using to rip my DVDs to media files, never content to just leave things as they are I took to piecing bits and chunks of various episode clips together. I tried a few different Linux video editors including Kino (a KDE staple), PiTiVi (to be included by default in Ubuntu 10.04), and Cinelerra. After playing with all of these for a short while I still was not satisfied with that...

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Minting the Girlfriend

A few weeks back the girl I have been dating for awhile now had idly made a complaint about her laptop being poky at certain tasks. I'd used the thing once or twice to check my email and recalled it was running Vista - no surprise there. I like this girl a lot and figured it was time to take that next step in our relationship:I offered to put Linux on her laptop.She had used my many computers which all run various forms of Linux several times and was open to the idea. After reassuring her that none of her data was going to be lost by installing...

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