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Lytro: The Revolutionary Camera is Now on Sale
Lytro: The Revolutionary Camera is Now on Sale – My Modern Metropolis.
Apple
Have you an IOS device? Get 50gb for free!
The guys from Box.net are giving away 50gb of space forever if you install the last APP on your iPhone/iPod/iPad. It’s a nice and free backup solution! http://blog.box.net/2011/10/12/were-giving-ios-users-insane-amounts-of-free-storage-box50gb/ PS: It’s working also if you are an old user (like me). Just install the APP, log in and enjoy the space! Read more…
Apple
SAMBA sharing to Mac
When you configure a SAMBA server on Linux and you want to mount the resource from a Mac, remember to set the security mode to “user“, otherwise you can receive messages like this: The operation can’t be completed because the original item for “SHARENAME” can’t be found From the smb.conf: Read more…
Linux
XBMC: make the shutdown working on Linux
I’m a huge fan of XBMC and I’m using it on my media-center. Usually I install on the hard drive the XBMC Live CD, a minimal Ubuntu based setup, with XBMC on top. Sometimes, I don’t have figured out why, the shutdown command is not working. I have faced the Read more…
Apple
Keep the ssh client connection alive
The problem: your favorite internet connection has one or more NAT between you and your server, so your SSH connection freeze after some idle time…
Apple
Chromium Updater 0.4a [updated]
For developer needs, i usually have the latest web-browser installed on my system. I’m also using Chromium (the open-source version of Google Chrome) and some times ago I have found a little application called ChromiumUpdater, useful to keep Chromium updated. The application stopped working because the download path of the last version of Chromium has changed.
Security
panopticlick: are you unique and untrackable???
Some day ago I found this interesting link about web privacy. The initiative is from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and uses an interesting technique for tracking the web users…
Apple
AddressBookSync is eating all your resources?
Playing with Address Book on Mac and the syncing feature, I have found a bug/memory leak into the AddressBookSync process.
I’m using Snow Leopard 10.6.4 and after some sync with my phone/OSX/etc, I have found my Mac completely unusable, with the CPU and RAM saturated by the AddressBookSync process.
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XBMC and the web interface not starting…
I’m using XBMC Media Center (which was formerly named Xbox Media Center) from a while on my home entertainment setup and I’m enjoying so much the really cool web interface. With this feature you can control your media center from your laptop/phone/whatever.
I’m using the livecd downloaded from the XBMC Media Center homepage (based on Ubuntu) and installed on my hard-drive. The problem with the web interface is that I’m not able to have it running upon the media center start-up…