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Archive for July, 2008

More Freedom hating from Apple

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Its been a while since I posted any Apple related stuff. A couple good articles. This article from the FSF talks about why the iPhone is incompatible with freedom. Spot on. If you want a cool device to listen/watch media, play games and hack I highly recommend the Nokia N800/N810 device or the Openmoko Freerunner […]

Running around with the kids and more Maemo Diablo goodness

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I took the week off from work but have been running around with the kids doing stuff. It’s always good spending time with the family. Found one of the best packages in the Maemo Diablo repos today. I installed WorldTV99 which is basically a listing of tv stations from around the world with video streams […]

Maemo apps

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Got a bunch of apps running on my Nokia. First I got Xmame along with Xmaeme(gui frontend). All of my ROMS work minus Paperboy. I installed Pidgin and it basically works just like the desktop version. Likewise Streamtuner is just like the desktop version. Vegalume is a nice Lasfm client. Finally I installed Gnumeric and […]

Better late than never

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Well I finally purchased a Nokia N800. Yeah I could of got the N810 for $350 but really didn’t want to spend that much money. I can live without the slide out keyboard and GPS unit. Honestly I rarely drive to places I don’t know my way around. Minus those 2 features it’s basically the […]

Racing fun with Maniadrive

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

I’ve never been into racing games but my 4 year old son just absolutely loves them so I play them with him. Over on getdeb.net I found a really kick ass racing game that I was not aware of before. The game is called ManiaDrvie and is really fun to play. You drive around […]

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