I have covered this before but that was for an old version of Firefox and this time I am going to include a RSS reader, "Snarfer" for those who do not use Firefox or just simply want an independent client.

But first let’s get things done out of the way in Firefox…

Firefox

The way of getting RSS feeds in Firefox it is pretty straight forward. Firefox already comes with a great  RSS manager known as Bookmarks Manager.  The sign above on the left is the universal sign that on that website RSS (Really Simple Syndication) are available so you know that you can get the latest news from that site by not actually having to check it every 10 minutes!

1. So to get the feeds in your Firefox load up it up and go to (obviously) http://nokitel.co.uk then on the right hand side you will see a big orange sign. Click it!

2. Next a window will pop-up asking you to add the RSS feeds of nokitel.co.uk to your bookmarks folder or toolbar. Select Bookmarks from the drop-down menu and press OK. You can always use the Bookmarks Manager later on to move or change the feeds.

3. Finally if you’ve followed everything correctly press CTRL+B on the keyboard and on the left hand side a panel will open which will look like this:

Snarfer

Snarfer, as its website puts it "Snarfer is simply the best way to read, search and manage RSS feeds. And it’s FREE!"

1. Go and download Snarfer from its website: http://www.snarfware.com/

2. Once it is downloaded and installed and you’ve selected one or two feeds that caught your interest and it is running click on the plus icon in the top right corner.

3. A drop down menu will open asking what you wanted to be subscribed to. Select Feed.

4. A window will then open up asking for the Feed address which it is going to be http://feeds.feedburner.com/nokitel and then follow the windows until you Finish. Done!

Feel free to post comments including other RSS readers that you use or tips/ideas etc.

Though in all fairness I haven’t made the most out of my Blackberry due to being a cheap ass and not getting the contract Blackberry Internet Service I am basically only missing out on having email redirected to my Blackberry. And shit, what a shame that is as I enjoy reading death threats and being accused of being racist! Yeah, people actually seem to think that I am a racist because I posted some photos of some niggaz being photoshoped, if that is even possible!

• Auto focus
• 3.2 megapixel camera
• Photo light
• Video recording

Music

• Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
• Media player
• Music tones
• PlayNow™
• Windows Media Player Mobile
• 3D games
• FM radio
• Java
• Video streaming
• Video viewing

Internet

• Internet Explorer® Mobile - (replace IE with Opera or Firefox thank you)
• RSS feeds

Communication and Messaging

• Polyphonic ringtones
• Speakerphone
• Vibrating alert
• Video calling
• Email
• Picture messaging (MMS)
• Predictive text input
• Text messaging (SMS)

Design

• XPERIA™ panels
• Optical joystick navigation
• Navigation key
• Picture wallpaper
• Touch navigation

Organiser

• Alarm clock
• Calculator
• Calendar
• Document editors
• Document readers
• Flight mode
• Handwriting recognition
• Notes
• Phone book
• Tasks
• Touchscreen

Connectivity

• aGPS
• Bluetooth™ technology
• Modem
• Synchronization
• USB support
• WLAN

Windows® Mobile® Operating System

• Microsoft® Outlook Mobile: email, contacts, calendar, tasks
• Microsoft® Office Mobile: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Internet Explorer® Mobile
• Windows Media™ Player Mobile
• Windows Live™
• Exchange ActiveSync®
• Voice control
• Utility Applications: file explorer, calculator, pictures & video, notes

Facts and Figures

• Size: 110 x 53 x 16.7 mm
• Weight: 145 grams

Available colours

• Black
• Silver
• Main screen: 65,536 color TFT
• Resolution: 800 X 480 pixels
• Size: 3 inches

Memory

• Phone memory: up to 400 MB
• microSD™ memory card support - (ppl have noted that it will in actual fact support Sony’s own Memory Stick Pro)
• Availability and versions

Networks

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 900/1700/1900/2100 MHz
• UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850/1700/1900/2100 MHz

I just hope it is not going to be too expensive and that it will not be locked to a network. But I think both will be true. Well the second one anyway while the prices will be high at the beginning, six months down the line they will go down.

Through my searches on the intertubes I came upon a page where you can download the hits from the last 30 or so years. So go and get yourself a download manager, I recommend Orbit it is free and doesn’t come with any bulk bullshit. I use it, so it must be good! And to make things EVEN easier get the FlashGot addon for your Firefox. 

Then right click on one of the links on http://ahn.50webs.com/music.html and select download all. And wait…. And wait more…. At least 3GB of songs there, so it will take some time.  Once it has finished downloading replace the .jpg file extension to .mp3 and voila, it works!

If you don’t see the .jpg or .mp3 file extensions on the files on your computer open up My Computer then go to Tools >> Options >> View >> untick the box which says Hide extensions for known file types and you’re done!

Now you can’t say I don’t give you anything. Thanks me later bitchezzz….

“Shpigler The Shark” teaches Yahoo how you negotiate that deal with Microsoft!

New version of this was released on the 03/10/2007 and here it is for those interested in this type of thing!

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This is one of the latest things that I have tried out while on Ubuntu and what can I say, I am really impressed, especially with the “Seamless Mode” which looks something like this:

Basically what VirtualBox does (and in way this is the correct definition, I am just saying what I think it does) is that it emulates an environment on your current (host) OS and allows you to install another OS in that emulated environment. All that VirtualBox creates is a big ass file that grows as you load more shit on the OS that you are emulating and then various files for the snapshots if you were to take any.

The “big ass file” that VirtualBox has created on my system is 1.5GB in size where I have Windows XP installed and Winamp! Though it is obvious that the more stuff you install the bigger that file will get, like with any OS where you install more software it will eat more space!

The other “various files” are snapshots of sessions that you can take in case you fuck something you can revert back to a saved point. So lets say for instance you just installed Winamp and then you go and uninstall some audio drivers which will fuck up your audio and you can’t hear anything. Rather than you having to fixing it like you would have to if you were running it as your main OS you can just revert back before you started messing around and voila, all good. On my system the files are around 200Mb-300Mb, but that vary too.

Really you are running an OS within another OS in an emulate environment. It is pretty fucked up and NOT what you could call Windows software on an Linux platform, but the “Seamless Mode” just makes it a whole lot better than Wine - in my opinion anyhow.

True it is a bit confusing configuring the emulated OS to transfer files with the host (main OS) but that is easily fixed once you read the manual I haven’t yet configured the emulated (guest) OS to connect to the internet as you have to bridge the connection between the guest OS and the host OS for which you have to install some packages and do some hardcore configuring of files manually through terminal which I haven’t got around to doing that yet!

Though I can say that I am pleased that I am able to run Winamp and DFX and to put to good use my Logitech Z-550!

Back to sharing files in between the guest OS and the host OS, just so you know you have to select the folders which you want shared in VirtualBox and then those folders will become available in the gust OS (the OS which is being emulated) via “Network Places >> Entire Network >> VirtualBox Shared Folders”.

Useful websites:
Installing VirtualBox On Ubuntu
Installing VirtualBox OSE on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
Installing Virtualbox and Windows in Ubuntu
Vista on Ubuntu Using VirtualBox
Create and Manage Virtual Machines Using VirtualBox

P.S. To be able to install any guest OS on a host OS through VirtualBox you will need the installation CD or an CD image (.iso, .bin, etc.) for that particular OS!

Only just 20 minutes ago I found out more information regarding the Eee PC and I thought I would share it out as well to get it out there to be better advertised so that many more users will be more aware of it.

The Eee PC is a ultra portable laptop/notebook. It is basically in between a Palm PC and a portable laptop/notebook which is priced at around £170. NOT BAD! Anyway. here are a few pictures taken off some sites that reviewed it and I’ll let you read about it all you want!

While it is very tempting to get one, I will wait until at least the second or third generation to come out before I will be thinking about buying one. I am hoping that those generations will have a larger screen, bigger (FLASH) disk space, faster processor and a bit more RAM. And on top of that they would’ve learned from the mistakes of the previous generations to improve on the newer ones. It could well be a good 2008 after all!

Apparently to keep the cost of the Eee PC down ASUS have not bundled it with Windows XP (though a version with XP has been announced) and that at the moment the versions of the laptop which are being reviewed have a resolution of around 800×480… Now that’s a lot of scrolling! Also another disadvantage for me at the moment is that it comes with 4GB flash disk storage and apparently the OS that comes installed on it takes around 3GB of that space.

So I don’t know if ASUS are making the users buy external storage devices or maybe they will up the storage on later generations. I know for sure that I wouldn’t want to have a laptop and then carry around with me a spare battery, an external hard disk and other various shit to get my laptop to work. It is either portable (and usable) for a couple of hours or it isn’t and also be able to store data which you use often such as music and pictures. (Obviously torrent and such are out of the question)

Wikipedia ASUS Eee PC
Asus Eee PC Initial Hands On and Video Review (Check the videos!)
EeeUser.com > An Unofficial ASUS Eee PC EeePC 701 Community
Asus Eee PC 701 review

I have finally upgraded my out-of-date version of WordPress. It is such a pain in the ass to update a blog script such as this because apart from it being large (over 1,500 files) but also very customized. Each time I upgrade the script I have to edit 20 or so files with custom bits of code I have so that it does what I want it to do. A bit annoying but when you are a few versions behind you have no choice.

Plus it is pretty exciting when you just installed a new version to see what new features it has. This time around I’ve noticed the tagging system. As you probably already seen there are a few tags as I have been tagging pasts posts, but as there are nearly 160 posts I got bored half way through and I will be tagging posts that I will be making from today onwards.

This is a very true quote taken from a comment made on Slashdot by morgan_greywolf (835522) on the Microsoft’s XO Laptop Strategy story.

Here’s a fact: everybody needs an OS to do useful work on their computer. No one needs Windows. The fact is, despite what some might say, Linux is perfectly useable for the vast majority of computer users … the people who claim they “need” Windows, other than hard-core gamers (since their major application is not available on Linux), if they really examined what they truly needed (a word processor, a web browser, a spreadsheet, a personal finance app), vs. what they claim they need (”100% Microsoft Office compatibility”), they’ll find that most of what they claim as a need to have Windows is really a want and not a true need. A small — but significant — minority of computer users actually need Windows because the application they need has no equivalent on Linux.

This is a demonstration of the Git version of Compiz Fusion (formerly known as compcomm), which is the remerge of beryl and compiz, and some of its interesting features.

All of those effects you can get on the new version of Ubuntu 7.10!