RockBox is a free and open source firmware available for several different digital music players. Stable releases are available for the following music players: Apple: iPod 1g through 5.5g, iPod Mini and iPod Nano 1g Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio Cowon: iAudio X5, X5V, X5L, M5, M5L, M3 …
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This past Thursday evening someone tipped off the Boy Genius Report that the Motorola Droid phone specs were published on the Motorola website. The pages were only up for about half an hour, but the Boy Genius Report managed to grab some screen captures of the spec pages. Here’s the rundown of the leaked specs.
Continue reading Motorola/Verizon Droid Specs LeakedAfter reading about the blazing fast boot time of Ubuntu 9.04 on Matt Cutts’ blog, I decided it was worthwhile to go for the upgrade on my MSI Wind U100-432US. Before the upgrade I made sure to install bootchart and manually measure the boot time as well.
Continue reading Jaunty Boots 32% Faster on the MSI WindBack before the Christmas Holidays, I purchased the Sabrent 68 in 1 USB 2.0 Internal Card Reader/Writer from NewEgg. It was the Shell Shocker deal of the day with a cut rate price and free shipping. It was less than $10, so I figured I’d give it a try. I was ordering some Christmas gifts …
Continue reading Review: Sabrent 68 in 1 Internal Card ReaderI’ve been using my MSI Wind U100-432US for a few weeks now. If you’re interested in my initial review, you can find it here. Shortly after getting this great small laptop I decided it was time to install Ubuntu. I decided to go for a Hardy install because of its Long Term Support status. I …
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