Author Archives: leogaggl

Getting a handle on Ubuntu mobile power management

Posted on February 6, 2012 by leogaggl

To get an idea on the current power usage and some suggestions on how to improve power-management ‘powertop‘ is a must-have. sudo apt-get install powertop Powertop Screenshot For some more detailed suggestions this is a good start: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PowerManagement/ReducedPower

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Turning the Toshiba Z830 into a Ubuntu Ultrabook

Posted on February 5, 2012 by leogaggl

Since I will have to do a fair amount of traveling in the next year I was in need of upgrading my trusted workhorse of Toshiba Qosmio F60 to a more portable option that will be easier on the shoulders … Continue reading →

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Mobile Browser Testing on the Desktop

Posted on January 28, 2012 by leogaggl

If you need to check websites for mobile compliance on a regular basis you know that having a device to constantly check is painful and slows down your work during debugging and phases of constant change.   by  adactio  There are a … Continue reading →

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Using Google Goggles in mobile learning projects

Posted on December 23, 2011 by leogaggl

One of the lesser known free Google services in our experience is Google Goggles. Specially in it’s lastest release (Version 1.7) it has received a few enhancements that make it very useful for some mobile learning applications Scanning of barcodes … Continue reading →

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Open Governance Index – measuring openness

Posted on December 14, 2011 by leogaggl

This is an interesting report and info-graphic by the folks at VisionMobile on a new way of measuring the openness of some mobile open source projects. The Open Governance Index measures the true openness of eight open source projects – Android, Qt, … Continue reading →

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Installing MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 11.10

Posted on December 4, 2011 by leogaggl

Thanks to Olivier Berten for providing this package via his PPA Repo ! sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olivier-berten/misc sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mysql-workbench-gpl  

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Facebook – good riddance !

Posted on November 30, 2011 by leogaggl

Finally I made the effort to completely get rid of my Facebook Account. After initially getting a Facebook Account in the very early days (as an ‘occupational hazard’ to investigate the potential of Facebook Applications) I have always been suspect … Continue reading →

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Google Docs – custom styles

Posted on October 26, 2011 by leogaggl

One of the most annoying things in the recent ‘upgrade‘ of the Google Docs editor was the removal of the ‘Edit CSS’ and ‘Edit HTML’ functionality without any replacement (such as a Custom Styles Editor). Thanks to a discussion on … Continue reading →

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Install Microsoft Fonts on Ubuntu

Posted on October 26, 2011 by leogaggl

If you have kids going to school you will know these questions: Why can’t you have Microsoft Office ? I can not find ‘xyz’ font on this …. – why ? I have managed (after some time) to convince my … Continue reading →

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Virtualbox 4 install on Ubuntu

Posted on October 26, 2011 by leogaggl

Since the default Ubuntu repository does not have the current version of VirtualBox (currently 4.1.x) here is the installation procedure via apt-get echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add … Continue reading →

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