Mozilla, the power behind Firefox, launches a $25 smartphone.

Mozilla’s smartphone operating system, Firefox OS, is being installed on mobile phones made by its partners, like Alcatel, Huawei, LG and ZTE, which will retail for $25 and be targeting fast growing emerging markets where users are unwilling or unable to be tied in to long term contracts.  Their Firefox OS phones will give multimedia …
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Anonimity on the internet.

It’s not that you want to be a spy, it’s not that you want to hide under a rock, it’s just that you feel threatened by the invasiveness of data tracking by Big Co (eg Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc) and Big Brother (the government and banks know more about you than you know about yourself). …
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Printer problems … fixed.

After cleaning print head and deep cleaning print heads and still not getting a decent print out, I came across this site PrinterKnowledge, started by Rob Ludlow’s nifty-stuff.com, which helped understand the nature of the problem.  (Anatomy of a Canon print head helped a lot – see photo below.) It was the print head, but …
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Yahoo, Bing, Scroogle, Scraper, and anonymous search

How embarrassing!  I knew it, but forgot it.  But luckily was reminded yesterday that Yahoo doesn’t offer search any more. In mid-2009 Yahoo gave up on search and contracted with Bing to supply teh service.  I was reminded when I saw the confession at the bottom of a Yahoo search page.  Further investigation reminded me …
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OpenSuse 13.1 – Initial review good: 9 out of 10

As a user of OpenSuse for a decade or so, I’m obviously a fan.  The recent release received a good review from Muktware: An OS for Grownups. The Breakdown Usability/User Friendliness 9 Design 9 App Ecosystem  8 Personalization 9 Security/Privacy 9.9 It’s a good choice for office productivity, although we also do video editing etc …
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Apple is opening up to free software.

It has always seemed unfair that when you spend loads of money on a new PC it won’t do anything until its loaded with basic software to do basic things, from turning the desktop on with an operating system to typing a letter in a word processor or surfing the web in a browser.  That …
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Facebook, Google and other data grabbers really know you. Really.

Let’s just skip to the meat: Digital records of behavior, Facebook Likes, can be used to automatically and accurately predict a range of highly sensitive personal attributes including: sexual orientation, ethnicity, religious and political views, personality traits, intelligence, happiness, use of addictive substances, parental separation, age, and gender. That’s just scary, especially when you think …
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Outlook 2013: If you haven’t found the answer yet, read this.

If you see some question about what the future holds the ideas outlined in the WFS Outlook 2013 will stimulate.  Even if you have found teh answer it will still feed you brain.  Enjoy it. http://www.wfs.org/futurist/november-december-2012-vol-46-no-6/outlook-2013   Outlook 2013 INTRODUCTION Human actions could become more accurately predictable, thanks to neuroscience. Nano-sized robots will deliver cancer-fighting …
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Asturix – linux and the logo

I’ve only looked at the home page so far, but I like the logo.  And it sounds a bit like Asterix, one of my heroes … Some say it is easy, quick and light (on hardware).  Another linux distribution worth a glance. It looks a bit Gnome/Ubuntu ish which is not my prefered GUI.  I’ve …
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