March 2008

POIs for TomTom: POIPlace and CheckPOInt

Submitted by phil on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 21:36

For those of you using your cool PDA w/ internal or external GPS as more than just a phone or organizer, but also as a Navigator, here are a few must-have links:

PoiPlace

http://poiplace.oabsoftware.nl/

The FREE one-stop shop for your POIS for just about any type of POIs and for most countries in the world.
Select your country, browse by type of POI, and click on them to download the POIs for your PDA or TomTom device:

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Geo-Visualize your RSS feeds...

Submitted by phil on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 16:02

From RSS or ATOM to GeoRSS and KML in a few clicks:

http://labs.metacarta.com/rss-geotagger/

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Windows Home Server: Hit or Miss?

Submitted by phil on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 14:51

Though some of the new MS technologies like MS Windows Server 2008 and Hyper-V, it seems that MS may have missed the mark with Windows Home Server.

It appears that by using this at home, you could lose some data by simply using having more than one disk and using some of your standard software (like MS Office 2007).

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MS Unity?

Submitted by phil on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 21:45

Microsoft readies Unity for software development

Microsoft's patterns and practices group has released a February Community Technology Preview of Unity, a lightweight extensible dependency injection container for software development.

Dependency injection is a technique for building loosely coupled applications.

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Moved to Linux... Still want your regular Apps?

Submitted by phil on Sun, 03/09/2008 - 21:39

Linux
OS

So you have moved away from Microsoft Windows XP or VISTA to something better? A linux distro like Ubuntu?

Now that you are more secure, have less headaches and have found tons of free software using apt or synaptic, you would like to run your regular and favorite applications like Photoshop... but how?

The answer is simple: get a glass of "Wine"!

add the following line to your sources.lst
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt binary/
then run to update the package cache:
$ sudo apt-get update

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