4 Proprietary game from Ubuntu software center

4 Proprietary game from Ubuntu software center

Usually i never open Ubuntu software center, i use aptitude or apt-get, casually the other day i opened it and i noticed that in the what’s new area there were some proprietary games. So just out of curiosity I looked at what this game looked like. The games are: Monster RPG 2, Uplink, Family Farm […]

BlueProximity - Unlock your Computer with your phone

BlueProximity – Unlock your Computer with your phone

Now, to tell the true this is a semi useful project, the most important aspect it’s the cool factor that it bring. You move away from your PC and it lock, turn off the screen and put in pause your Media player. Than you come back and everything starts again automatically. Cool ? it’s BlueProximity.

Remote control by Java and 8 bit

Remote control by Java and 8 bit

I’ve received this introduction from my friend Paolo Proni and i gladly publish it: From longtime the common opinion about Java is that it is a heavy environment, which requires a powerful hardware and sometimes it seems the power is never enough. It seems that in order to do the same tasks that we could […]

Turpial, microblogging client from South America

Turpial, microblogging client from South America

In my post “6 microblogging client for Linux” I’ve received a comment about the software: Turpial. Turpial is a client for Twitter and Identi.ca (only after the 1.4.X release) based on PyGTK, I’ve tested on my ubuntu 11.04 the version available in the development PPA for Ubuntu and so I’ve made the tests on Twitter […]

Cheat Sheet collection

Cheat Sheet collection

For Wikipedia: A cheat sheet or crib sheet is a concise set of notes used for quick reference. “Cheat sheet” may also be rendered “cheatsheet”. People working in informatics in general and on unix terminals in particular know that is not so easy remember every single command and so it’s usual to have “Cheat Sheet”, […]