Archive for June, 2008

Nokia OS2008 Update

June 25, 2008

After hearing about the latest Nokia OS2008 update, I had to try it out on my N800.  Two of the new features caught my eye:

New email application based on Modest and the tinymail framework.  It now supports multiple email services (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) out of the box and allows you to set up multiple [...]

Ubuntu Eee 8.04

June 23, 2008

I’ve been running Ubuntu 7.10 on my Eee PC since I got it about six months ago.  It took some tweaking to get everything working (suspend/resume was a pain!), but once set up, the little laptop has been rock solid.  I was planning to upgrade my Eee PC to Ubuntu 8.04, but I read about [...]

Make like a PDF and split

June 18, 2008

I was recently asked by a user to help with merging and splitting multiple PDF files.  I’m sure Adobe Acrobat could handle something like this, but I’m not that familiar with Acrobat and my user couldn’t afford the full version of Acrobat.  Being a command line junky, I looked for something I could run in [...]