Gimp 2.8 has been out for a couple of days and I had the chance to use it a little bit. Everybody in the scene seems to be awestruck by the single window mode and I approve, it is sweet. But there are a couple of new features that …

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 …

Yesterday 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 …

If 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 …

There'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 …

I've recently found myself on a severely resource-limited computer, and I tried to find a way to submit my listening history from my Rockbox device to libre.fm without needing a lot of dependencies. After a bit of searching I stumbled upon a script made by a couple of Linux …

Since 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 …

Even though I'm not a TV guy, I sometimes feel the need to watch TV. I don't actually have a TV of my own, so I'm forced to use different kinds of streaming frameworks. One of these frameworks is SopCast, and although they provide Linux binaries, the GUI isn't the …

Since 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 …

Recently 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 …