Wine is essentially a Windows compatibility layer for Linux, allowing Linux users to run Windows applications in a much more direct manner than full operating system virtualisation. More information about Wine is to come shortly.
If you wish, you can visit the official Wine website to get more details about this excellent free piece of software and download instructions.
In Windows, you can find your uptime via one of the following two methods commands. To enter these commands open a command prompt from the Start Menu or just execute cmd.exe systeminfo | find “Up Time” net statistics server (Note that this command displays actually shows the last boot time from which the uptime can [...]
Originally released in September of 2008, Dropbox has grown to be an enormously useful and popular online storage solution. Although Dropbox functions as a storage solution, its most welcoming features are the live synchronisation and sharing features the software and service provides. For those who have been missing out, Dropbox is incredibly simple to use. [...]
Spotify, the online music streaming service is, later today, becoming more than just a streaming service, for Premium members at least. Later today (1st October 2009), the Spotify client will be activated with a new feature – offline mode and the ability to syncronise playlists to your computer’s hard drive. The mobile Spotify applications, for [...]
“Over a quarter-century ago, Xerox introduced the modern graphical user interface paradigm we today take for granted. That it has endured is a testament to the genius of its design. But the industry is now at a crossroads: New technologies promise higher-bandwidth interaction, but have yet to find a truly viable implementation. 10/GUI aims to [...]
Twitter has signed deals with Microsoft and Google to put microblogging messages sent via the microblogging service (‘tweets’) into the Microsoft Bing and Google search engine indexes. This deal will mean tweets will appear from Twitter alongside normal Google and Bing search results. Without a doubt, this will make Twitter an even larger SEO tool [...]
A short while before the release of Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) I did some work on the micro-blogging client Gwibber. I fixed a bug related to the disproportionally large fonts present in the GUI of Gwibber, which had been plaguing the 2.0.0 release for quite a while. It turns out this fix was a very [...]
T-shirts are perhaps the most comfortable and versatile clothing item you can wear on almost any occasion. This is one of the reasons why T-shirt manufacturing is a big business with a market of over two billion worldwide. This versatile apparel has come a long way from its beginnings in 1920. The t-shirt has evolved [...]
T-shirts will always look the same no matter where you bought them. The typical t-shirt is without a collar, without buttons and without pockets. The only difference would be the t-shirt design as well as the material from which the t-shirt is made. This apparel is perhaps one of the oldest clothing designs that are [...]
Ever wondered how manufacturers come up with differently colored clothing wear that can match and even surpass the colors of the rainbow? Colored clothing material is made possible by cloth dyes. Most cloth dyes make use of chemicals that can be poisonous when large amounts are accidentally swallowed. However, most of the cloth dyes commonly [...]
A portfolio of sorts will appear here shortly listing some of the projects I've developed or those I'm currently working on.
For now, take a look at my projects page directly.
Some photograph previews will appear here at some point.
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