Archive for the 'Software' Category

Online Computer Sales – The Fall

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

Although until now the internet seemed to be a good resource for buying electronics hardware and software, a recent study shows that last year they were surpassed by other kinds of merchandise: clothes and accessories. An article on ContraCostaTimes.com shows how online computer sales have dropped down getting for the first time on the second [...]

How to really erase a HDD

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

ZDnet Blogs has a interesting article on hard drive information erasing that will get past even *recovery* applications. Hint: Recycle Bin won’t do it for you. Unless you work for the government, in a pretty high position, i don’t think you should be afraid if you haven’t been doing this until now.

7 Awesome Things Built on the Digg API

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

You all know digg, the social bookmarking website. Well, it has only been a week since they launched their own API and there are already some note-worthy applications and ideas released onto the interwebs. Here’s a list of Mashable’s favourite 7. Definately need to check that out. Enjoy!

Wine 0.9.36 released

Saturday, April 28th, 2007

You know Wine, the ever-popular implementation of Windows for Unix. They just got version 0.9.36 out. A selection of the more interesting changes in the version: What’s new in this release: – Midi support in the CoreAudio driver. – Mixer support in the Alsa driver. – A lot of MSI fixes. – Implementation for most [...]

Slice in CSS with this 9 page full-featured guide!

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

A concise, 9 page full-featured guide for anybody who is interested in becoming a CSS web designer,CSS Slicing Guide teaches you how to take a layout straight out of Photoshop, or infact any graphics program, and turn it into fully standards compliant XHTML and CSS with superfast loadtimes. Check it out!