Monthly Archives: October 2008
New Google Chrome release: version 0.3.154.9
The devs of Google Chrome released a new version: 0.3.154.9. Seems that they have fixed the performance issues with plugins… Gonna test the Flash plugin on GarageTV for my daily portion of Terzake. Google Chrome is still in beta, though … Continue reading
NetworkManager 0.7.0 doesn’t manage my network
After an upgrade of my desktop machine to Ubuntu 8.10 Beta the NetworkManager in GNOME makes a mess of my network settings (Say truely, which “manager” doesn’t make a mess out of the thing he/she needs to… manage :p). Anyway… … Continue reading
Ubuntu is slowing down
The guys (or are they girls?) at Phoronix have done some benchmarking with Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10 Beta. It seems that the oldest release is still the fastest… Hopefully, Canonical and its Ubuntu team will work their asses … Continue reading
Belgian ISP Scarlet vs Copyright law: 1-0
Belgian ISP Scarlet has scored its first victory in an important case that has been dragging on for years. This case is the first real test of how European copyright law can be applied to peer-to-peer networks. More info: Article … Continue reading
VMWare Fusion 2.0 for Mac disected
As a future Mac user (I’m considering buying a Mac as my main development machine at home in the next year) I’m very interested in Windows/Linux virtualization on Mac OS X. Ars Technica has a very thoroughly reviewed the VMWare … Continue reading
New features in Google Analytics
At the eMetrics Summit in Washington, D.C., Avinash Kaushik, the Analytics Evangelist of Google unveiled the new functionalities that represent a major upgrade to Google Analytics. They are (with more details in the full article): Advanced Segmentation, Custom Reports, a … Continue reading
Google open sources Android’s source code
Check this nice article on Ars Technica: Google liberates Android source code, so start developing!
Flanders is getting its own domain extension
The Flemish government is starting the procedure to register a Flemish domain extension. Seems that it’s still unclear what it shall be: .vla, .vln, .vlaanderen or .fla? One thing is sure, it won’t be .vl because 2 letter domain extensions … Continue reading
An IMDB API (or the lack of…)
After a quiet death I want to recreate an old project of mine (called MovieDepot). An essential thing to get it fully compliant with the Web 2.0 hype I need a decent IMDB integration. Possible candidate(s) is(are): TRYNT Movie IMDB … Continue reading
Songbird 1.0 is coming our way!
Seems that the developers op my favourite music player are wrapping up for the long awaited 1.0 release! Songbird 1.0 will arrive within a month. It seems that they are jumping from 0.7 to 1.0… I’m so happy that I … Continue reading