Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

I just upgraded my 9.04 version of Ubuntu at work. The new version 9.10 is running smooth. At home it took really long time to upgrade, but a work the whole process went real quick.

Facebook Redesigns Mobile Touch Site

ReadWriteWeb yesterday had a story about the fact that Facebook hasn't beeen fully optimized for all touchscreen phones. Direct your touchscreen mobile to the following url:
http://touch.facebook.com/

SkreemR-The World's Greatest Mp3 Search Engine!

The World's Greatest Mp3 Search Engine!

Just give it a try!

Having mentioned SkreemR I would also have to mention Grooveshark

My favourite music related apps on Android

The amount of music apps for Android phones are increasing but a lot of them is not very good,
here is a list of those good ones that I love:

Music players:

Meridian
Rock on
MixZingLite

Streaming:

Deezer
Dizzler
Flycast
imeem mobile
iMusic
StreamFurious
TuneWiki

Music recognition:

Shazam

Video:

YouTube
vTap
TuneWiki
YouTube

Pc to mobile-wifi remote
Gmote

Sharing own Videos:
Qik

How to: Add Keyboard Navigation to Facebook

ReadWriteWeb just recently published a story about how to use Firefox to customize keyboard navigation to Facebook with a few clicks by adding a plugin.

Emtacl10: Emerging technologies in academic libraries

Deadline for submission of abstracts extended / emtacl10: Emerging technologies in academic libraries. http://tinyurl.com/yf95kuo #emtacl10 #emtacl

Yubby.com- Find video from over 30 popular video sites

Yubby.com : Find video from over 30 popular video sites and add videos to your own play channels by drag and drop. It really couldn't get easier than this. Watch demo here.

Open Home market app

A nice new alternative to Android market has recently seen the daylight, it's called Open Home.

Gerjar app problems Android.

After updating the Pandahome homescreen replacement the getjar market app has been acting mighty strange, mostly not working.

Google sites-New features

Google Sites added some new features: integration with Picasa Web Albums, feeds, custom templates.

New addition to our children books collection

New addition to our children books collection.

Android J2ME MIDP RUNNER 1.6.0.7 Released

The Android J2ME MIDP RUNNER let you convert,run and install J2me applications on your Android phone. I have tried it and I am pleased to announce that it's functioning. I tried the J2me application Snaptu and it really run smooth.

BORA-CMI Bergen Open Research Archive Chr.michelsen Institute

A great site for free online african resources is the open access repository (BORA) of Christian Michelsen Insitute situated in Bergen. Take a quick search yourself.

emtacl10-Emerging technologies in academic libraries- CFP reminder

Emtacl10
The international conference for cutting-edge technological developments in libraries within higher-education.
www.emtacl.com

Abstract submission: 15 October 2009

TweepML-Share groups of twitter users

TweepML is an extensible, open standard format that allows you to manage and share groups of Twitter users.In just a few clicks you could add several users and groups you want to follow. This is really a clever and easy way to add more tweets to follow.

Eqentia- Vertical new environment

William Mougayar from Toronto, Canada has launched a semantic news/content aggregation platform called Eqentia.You could read more about the project here.

PDF search engine

Try the "first" pdf search engine searching 285.000.000 free ebooks.

Linden Lab show Second Life usage and numbers

Linden Lab's is releasing a selection of figures that give you an idea of the scale of Second Life, see here.

Leiden University open access repository

A good source for african studies is Leiden University open access repository.
Leiden University open access repository

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Missing simplify media

Missing simplify media on your android phone? Try the Gnome application. A good app for streaming music allowing several formats.