Gadgets Entries
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Dec052010
Wacom Bamboo on Ubuntu
I purchased a Wacom Bamboo stylus this week, and thought I'd document for my own reference how to set it up in Ubuntu.
To Install the wacom driver support in ubuntu, I found this blog, which showed a painless install using the doctormo ppa. If you dont want to follow the link, here are the steps which works for me on Ubuntu 10.10.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:doctormo/wacom-plus sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install wacom-dkms xf86-input-wacom
Note: You …
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Oct032010
Samsung Galaxy S, App Inventor and Ubuntu
Note: If you're absolutely not interested in the history, just skip to the summary below.
So I finally got my App Inventor invite on Friday and was super excited, to get started putting together the first building blocks for my own android applications.
I have a Samsung Galaxy S, and I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 at the time of writing this post. The problem was that App Inventor did not detect my phone.
After a quick bout of googling, I found this site had …
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Mar302010
The WePad May Join Our Family Soon
I wasn't very enthusiastic when Apple announced the IPad earlier this year. I also looked at a couple of other tablet PC's at the time, but could not see myself using any of these devices, and my personal thoughts was that these devices are just silly gimmicks that will never really take flight.
About a month later, and my opinions have drastically changed. The main reason for this shift is that I realised that I am already looking for various solutions in my day to day life, that I aimed to replace …