Category Archives: work

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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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 Adsense – or when is big TOO big ?

Posted on October 22, 2011 by leogaggl

I am not generally one for writing blog entries about customer support failures. Thanks to my technical work I have had my fair share of dealing with call queues and help-desk systems over the last 20 years. But compared with … Continue reading →

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Using Blackboard Collaborate (Elluminate) on Ubuntu

Posted on October 20, 2011 by leogaggl

Like it or not (personally I am in the second category) Blackboard Collaborate or Elluminate (as it is still more commonly referred to) is something you have a hard time avoiding if you work in online education. I discovered that I … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu – create manual application launcher (Unity)

Posted on October 18, 2011 by leogaggl

With every new release of Ubuntu I am becoming more resigned to the fact that the effort to revert back to the Ubuntu Classic (Gnome 2) interface is getting harder and sooner or later I will have to bite the … Continue reading →

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Installing Java6 JDK on Ubuntu 11.10

Posted on October 18, 2011 by leogaggl

Since sun-java6-jdk has been removed from the default Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) repositories you need to add a PPA repository (unless you want to install by hand) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ferramroberto/java sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin

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Export Delicious Bookmarks in XML

Posted on October 13, 2011 by leogaggl

After the recent takeover of Delicious from Yahoo Inc by Avos and the subsequent total screw-up of what was a workable system I have been struggling to export bookmarks from Delicious in XML format (since the API is badly broken). … Continue reading →

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