Feb 14
Well, actually it might already have become a great business rather than a potential. But as I don’t know how it might exactly be, I’ll stick to my title.
What I’m going to talk about is the WikiReader.
What is WikiReader
WikiReader is a small BSD-based (?) handheld device that let’s your search in a previously downloaded version of Wikipedia articles. Or as the website says
WikiReader is an electronic encyclopedia giving physical form to Wikipedia. Now you can take it with you wherever you go.
It has a nice look, with only three buttons and a touch screen for easy navigation. With two standard AAA batteries it’s said that it’ll function for up to 12 months of normal usage.
It has an apparent monthly schedule for providing update files (which as of now measure to 4.7 GB).
No knowledge of how a wiki operates is required to use this device, which has an intended audience of school children and the like.
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Tagged with: business • device • wikipedia
Jan 19
WordPress Mobile Edition is cool tiny utility that allows you to redirect your mobile visitors to a shiny, new interface which incorporates easy navigation and good looks in a simple UI.
As I’m personally using this plugin, I won’t hesitate to recommend it to anybody who wants their blogs to be compatible with mobile browsers. And remember, the issue here is not merely compatibility, but rather the ease-of-use.
Good luck to you all!
Tagged with: blog • mobile • wordpress
Jan 03
Well, it’s not here yet, but what I’ve seen is pretty smooth. I think the eyeOS GUI designers are well into their business. What I’ve seen so far from the mock-ups and videos and images suggests a big facelift in the upcoming eyeOS major release.
I think you will agree with me when you see the video.
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Tagged with: eyeos • gui • video
Jan 03
Okay, it seems like I’m not gonna be able to run eyeMail on my server. After a couple of Google searches, I found out that there could be two things preventing eyeMail from functioning correctly.
One was the MBString PHP module, which as I’ve previously mentioned, I’ve gone through pains to install. The other was the SQLite extension. Well, I tried everything and it seemed to be doing well. But as I searched some more, I realized that my PHP was compiled with PDO-SQLite. But, eyeMail requires the SQLite extention, not the PDO-SQLite.
So, I’ll only be able to run eyeMail on my server if I recompile PHP without the “—without-sqlite” option. Right now, it’s not that important to me, so I’m gonna let it pass.
Tagged with: eyeos • host • imap • mail
Jan 01
Today, I installed eyeOS 1.9 on my virtual host. It was more than good, in my opinion. However, the installation didn’t go as smoothly as I thought it would. I mean, the 1.8 worked better for me.
First, I had to uninstall and reinstall Kloxo, PHP, MySQL, Apache, and PEAR several times before getting them to work properly together. I know this wasn’t directly related to the eyeOS installation, but I had to do this because eyeOS (or rather, PHP) didn’t recognize the SQLite and MBString modules I had installed.
Then I had to surf the web for about one hour to find out that I couldn’t see any applications in the package manager, because the default repository address wasn’t working. So, I had to switch the repository to 1.7.
And besides everything, I still haven’t got the IMAP mail client to function properly.
I’ll post as soon as I get that problem solved.
Tagged with: domain • eyeos • problems • repository
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