Posts Tagged ‘ Free ’

Blackberry: Loading Hybrid OS

Jul 11th, 2010 | By CBrookins
Blackberry: Loading Hybrid OS

RIM doesn’t provide updates as often as I would like, so I went out looking for custom OS builds or unofficial updates.  What I cam across was BBHybrids.net.  Here you can download official Blackberry software releases and custom Blackberry Hybrids of leaked OS builds. In my case I used a Blackberry Storm 9530.  I first
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Wubi

May 8th, 2010 | By CBrookins
Wubi

Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Do you want to try Ubuntu without removing Windows or partitioning a dual boot
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Conky

Apr 30th, 2010 | By CBrookins
Conky

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. This is a nice tool for monitoring your system usage.  You can customize it to fit your current theme and display just about any information you want to view.  This application really helps to keep a minimalistic desktop.  In
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WordPress: Auto Update Fix

Apr 29th, 2010 | By CBrookins

I recently ran into a problem with my WordPress installations.  I could not auto update my plugins.  After some research, I found that it was a problem with the hosting server having php4 and php5 enabled at the same time.  This is common practice for shared hosting plans.   I found that adding the following
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Countdown

Apr 17th, 2010 | By CBrookins

I wrote my first Linux application.  It is a application which will count down from a preset number of seconds.  I have tested it on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 Beta 2.  Other than that, I have no guaranty.  It is a pretty basic application. You enter the amount of seconds to countdown, select Set, then
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FreeNAS: Configuring an iTunes/DAAP Server

Apr 15th, 2010 | By CBrookins

This is a short video tutorial on how to configure an iTunes/DAAP server on your FreeNAS server.  This tutorial assumes that you have following the “Installing FreeNAS” tutorial that is also available in the tutorials section of this site.  This tutorial slightly touches on creating simple playlists on the server to make them available to all users.
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