You're happily browsing the interwebs in Opera, and you suddenly get a big red error: Access to this port is disabled for security reasons., just like in the image below. Who you gonna call? Read on...
We just need to pop Opera's hood open and do a little tuning. So …
read moreYesterday LO 192 was released and in it Dan & Fab pimped a recently released audiobook, "Blue Heaven", written and read by lostnbronx. Since I'm a sucker for audiobooks I grabbed it right away, and since I found it most excellent I thought I'd blabber a bit about it right here …
read moreIf you download files from archive.org's audio section, you probably observed by now that, while there are options to download all the files in 64Kbps or variable bitrate MP3, there is no ogg download of the same type.
Don't forge ahead right clicking all individual ogg downloads, we …
read moreThere's a lot of reasons to have a portable USB Linux setup that does something else than actually duplicating the Live CD of distro X. With Tiny Core that's different, since it does away with the solid squashfs setup that most live distros have and, if you follow the steps …
read moreSince I have Rockbox on a couple of my PMPs, I like to use the log scrobbler function and when I'm near my computer I can just submit my listened tracks history to Libre.fm. To do that, I use a little program called QtScrobble.
Unfortunately, there aren't any QtScrobble …
read moreSince I got my Asus eee I've been continually swapping distros, since the preinstalled Xandros wasn't cutting it. Until now I've had Ubuntu, Ubuntu-eee, eeebuntu, Mandriva, Debian... and the list could go on.
Nothing to say, all great, stable & clean distros. And then came crunchbang, with it's spinoff cruncheee. Watch …
read moreRecently I had some unvoluntary fun concerning one of my flash drives. After that I decided to encrypt a part of my Portable Apps Suite that I keep on it, mainly the web browser, Pidgin, PuTTy and WinSCP, the sensitive stuff.
Playing with TrueCrypt I observed that it is able …
read moreWow, I haven't been here in a while. Anyhow, since I'm playing quite alot with mobile phones, I needed a way to convert my podcasts to a less space consuming format. And since all of them support HE-AAC, I wrote a small wrapper script that can convert almost any format …
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