Kindle App Store; Is it Possible?

Recently the Internet was abuzz with reports that Amazon was releasing the Kindle source code to the public. But it really was not what everyone was expecting, it wasn’t even the whole source code, just a small portion of it. What I want to speculate on is whatif Amazon really did open up the Source Code for the Amazon Kindle just a little bit.If Amazon opened the kindle Source code a little bit to allow, developers to create add ons for the kindle this could be an amazing thing both for users and for Amazon. For users this could create a lot of cool “applications” that could be used on the kindle making them not just for reading.

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How Overhyping Killed KDE 4

I was browsing around Digg as I normally do an noticed KDE 4 point blah blah came out recently. KDE 4 I remember when it was first being developed and the buzz was crazyness. My question is what happened, it seems to me that it came out and no one really cared. I think KDE 4 was extremely over hyped and was so built up on being so new and innovative but just died; why?

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Lets at T-mobile G1 to the List

Yesterday I made a post comparing the Iphone Cost to the Palm Pre costs, and then even added in the Blackberry Storm. Well I don’t knwo how I forgot it, but what about the t-mobile Android G1 smart phone! So here are the results for the G1 for totalt cost of ownership:

I really like the Android Operating system and am thinking it its going to get really really good when Google really integrates Google voice with it.

Dell Continues to Dance with Ubuntu

Dell a few years ago started offering the option of having Ubuntu linux pre installed on some of their machines. A lot of people were excited to ear this but when it happened, noticed that having Ubuntu vs Microsoft on the Dell computer didn’t slice the price of the computers as much as they had hoped.

Well now this has all finally changed with Dell offering there new laptop the Inspiron 15n with Ubuntu Linux. This new laptop is not a netbook and has great specs for an extremely low price of $299!!! The specs of the base $299 laptop are:

• Intel® Celeron® 585 (1MB cache/2.16GHz/667Mhz FSB)
• Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 8.10
• Glossy, widescreen 15.6 inch display (1366×768)
• 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 800MHz
• SATA Hard Drive (5400RPM)
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD
• 8X CD / DVD Burner (Dual Layer DVD+/-R Drive)
• Dell Wireless 1397 802.11g Half Mini-Card

Now if you ask me that is an amazing steal for a laptop and I see this as yet another stride on brining Ubuntu to the mainstream public.

If you would like to buy or customize the dell inspiron 15n check it out here on the Dell Website.

Easily Help test hardware on Ubuntu

The one great thing I love about open source is that everyone can help. Anyone around the world can write a patch to fix something and everyone can then get it updated on their own system, its really grate. I personally can’t do anything with code; yet. But I still would like to help out the Ubuntu Community and tell them how things are going. So while browsing around on Hardy Heron I noticed a little things that said, “Hardware Testing” So I clicked it. What this does it it runs a series of quick tests and you answer some really quick questions to let Ubuntu know how your computers hardware is working with Ubuntu. If every Ubuntu user did this imagine all the great info Ubuntu developers would have?

So here is how you do it, first navigate to the Hardware testing launcher:

Once Launched you will be greeted with a screen that looks like this:

Read it if you want then click, “Next” to begin the brief tests. This will test everything from our soudn card, video car, mouse, keyboard network, etc…

After going through everything you will give them your email address that you use to sign into launchpad and the tests will all be submitted to Ubuntu to look over!

Now don’t you feel good, you just helped out the Ubuntu Community!

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Make Animations on Linux or any OS for that matter!

Do use use linux and wish you could use adobe flash to make animations? Or do you use linux or mac and just want something a heck of a lot cheaper then flash? Well pencil is your answer, its free and open source and runs on linux, mac, and windows. Its had a great clean interface and is fairly easy to use once you get going. So here is a nice screen shot of it working on ubuntu:

Lastly for all you Ubuntu users its super easy to install because they have a nice .deb for you all!

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