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Radiant CMS
Easter weekend didn’t start well – I decided to upgrade Joomla on one of my sites to version 1.5.1 from 1.0 and upgrade just totally ruined the entire site – content was lost, template wasn’t compatible with version 1.5.1. At first I thought that the reason is Dreamhost‘s automatic one-click upgrade that I used, but…
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Ubuntu 7.10 on Lenovo T61
I bought myself a new laptop – Lenovo T61 (15.4″ WSXGA+ TFT, Intel GMA X3100 GM965 integrated graphics, 100Gb 7200rpm HDD, 2Gb RAM, Core 2 Duo T7500 2.2GHz CPU, integrated bluetooth, Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG). I was really tempted by MacBook Pro, but Lenovo with similar configuration was almost twice as cheap, and still provided everything…
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Nokia Photos 1.0 – new generation of Lifeblog
Today the new generation Lifeblog – Nokia Photos 1.0 application was released by Nokia. To quote Nseries web site: “Nokia Photos is a PC application designed to let you do more with your images. Just download the application to your compatible PC and you’re ready to edit, back-up, organize, print, convert, and share all the…
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Google Android vs. Nokia Series 60 – what would it take to build a better mobile phone?
The long awaited Google phone turned out to be just an OS. What does it mean for us, mobile software developers? Personally, I think this is great news. An open mobile platform is something that was long due to stir up the world of RIM-Windows-Symbian. Android managed to get many things right from the very…
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Ubuntu 7.10 – Gutsy Gibbon
I used Ubuntu 7.04 on my Dell Inspiron 9100 for quite a long time. Unfortunately attempt to upgrade to 7.10 failed miserably – after reboot all I got from Gnome was gray screen (which I managed to go past by explicitly selecting session type at logon), but then “HAL failure” and other problems forced me…
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Symbian Platform Security – hacked?
(Via: Gábor Török and Antony Pranata) Well, hacked – sort of. Apparenlty it is possible to obtain AllFiles capability for your applications by changing a few lines in Nokia Software Update files and flashing your phone, as described here. For developers that means that with certain amount of effort they will be able to make…
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Nokia – new Google, new Apple or just new Nokia?
Nokia’s brand is one of the most valueable brands in the world (MillwardBrown rates it as 12th). Nokia is quite close to becoming a synonym of a mobile phone. Whenever I tell someone that I work for Nokia, reaction is almost always the same – “oh, so you make phones”. It is very difficult to…
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Nokia Beta Labs – Tommi Vilkamo
Conratulations Tommi, congratulations Nokia! It is really a lucky break for Nokia that someone with such a great track record of blogging and openly talking to community of Nokia users will head Beta Labs. As Stephen Johnston said “Plenty of improvement ideas are in the pipeline, and the key one for me will be to…
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I moved to Linux completely
That finally happened. I’ve completely got rid of Windows on my computers. The last bastion of Windows was my Nokia work laptop, and now there is Nokia corporate version of Linux installed. I would’ve preferred Ubuntu, but that was not an option. Migration was relatively painless and that’s yet another proof that Linux can be…
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Symbian OS Platform Security – good or evil?
In the past couple of months I’ve been doing internal trainings, and on pretty much every one of them I was getting questions regarding Symbian platform security. And to be honest, platform security is something that made me loose my sleep a few times over the past couple of years. But I don’t want this…