Linux, just Linux
The Mobile industry, it seems, has an incredible potential for enormous innovations, an uncanny ability to attract many market entrants and a very intensive competition for market share. Android has very well positioned itself as a global leader in terms of the number of devices activated running its platform, and …
While Linux is running our phones, friend requests, tweets, financial trades, ATMs and more, most of us don’t know how it’s actually built. This short video takes you inside the process by which the largest collaborative development project in the history of computing is organized. Based on the annual report …
This is intended as an absolute beginner Python programmer’s guide to the PYTHONPATH and importing your own modules to your projects easily. This should work on most Unix-like (*nix) machines. I struggled for a while when I first started using Linux and programming Python to figure out exactly how the Python …
This is a guest post by Nikhil Somaru. Nikhil is tech-head open-source junkie with a spiritual edge. He left South Africa in search of Truth (if any and is currently imbibing a system of philosophy known as Vedanta in India. In his spare time, he listens to Wagner and wonders just …
This is a guest post by Nikhil Somaru. Nikhil is tech-head open-source junkie with a spiritual edge. He left South Africa in search of Truth (if any and is currently imbibing a system of philosophy known as Vedanta in India. In his spare time, he listens to Wagner and wonders …
Wikileaks is very popular at the moment, they have just over a million documents and are releasing 250 000 new US Cablegate documents. These documents contain top secret information from around the world and make for very interesting reading but the biggest problem Wikileaks has is that it is impossible …
FLOSS (Free/ Libre/ Open Source Software) refers to a collaborative, distributed, collective and innovative approach to software development. FlOSS has numerous benefits, especially for developing countries as it lowers the barriers to entry, usage, costs, adaptability, has been translated into more dialects and languages than any other software available including …
Maemo is a software platform developed by Nokia for smartphones and Internet Tablets. It is based on the Debian Linux distribution. The platform comprises the Maemo operating system and the Maemo SDK. Maemo is mostly based on open source code, and has been developed by Maemo Devices within Nokia in …
After Jason Adriaan’s guest blog post about Local List, Your Web AddiCT went over to ISlabs to see what was new and this idea from Charl van Niekerk immediately caught my attention:
In this TEDTalk at TEDindia 2009 the MIT Media Lab’s Pranav Mistry shares his SixthSense invention with the audience. SixthSense is a …
For the short few years I have been using Macs I never encountered or even heard of a virus infecting the Mac …