I was looking for a way to disable the built-in webcam on an Acer-laptop. Ubuntu, well Linux Mint actually, tried to identify and use the webcam during boot, over and over again. This caused a huge delay in booting time. Since I don’t want to use the webcam, I searched for a way to disable… Continue reading Disable webcam in Ubuntu
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FrostWire chat server
FrostWire, the filesharing application based on LimeWire, has a built in chat system. The built-in functions are very basic, and I’m not a big fan of the layout. So I asked wyrdjax in the #Support channel if it’s possible to connect to the FrostWire server using a normal IRC client like mIRC, Konversation or ViRC.… Continue reading FrostWire chat server
Windows Live Messenger 9 beta
Windows Live Wave 3 beta went public. You can choose to install the other Windows Live products during install. If you don’t want them, don’t forget to tick them off! >> Download Windows Live Messenger 9 beta (Nederlands) >> Download Windows Live Messenger 9 beta (English)
VLC media player 0.9.2
VideoLAN is an excellent multimedia player with it’s own plugins for playing different formats, so it doesn’t need any codecs to be installed. It works great for previewing partially downloaded files too as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast… Continue reading VLC media player 0.9.2
Pidgin 2.5.1
More than ten days too late, but here’s Pidgin 2.5.1! Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can be extended using plugins.
Songbird 0.7.0 beta
Songbird is a music player built from Firefox’s browser engine. It is open source and runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Songbird plays the media web. Play MP3s without leaving the page. Songbird views Web pages as dynamic playlists to play, save, download or subscribe to. Songbird plays your music too with all… Continue reading Songbird 0.7.0 beta
Pidgin 2.5.0
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can be extended using plugins.
Spam on Bliip.com
I’ve taken some anti-spam measures on the Bliip.com forum. The amount of spam was increasing over the last few days. Now there’s a ‘human’ question that needs to be answered when a new user wants to register, so spam bots can’t sign up automatically anymore. Â While I was at it, I deleted 150 members with… Continue reading Spam on Bliip.com
“Je nique Ebay.com”
Funny graffiti on a train yesterday:
FileZilla 3.1.1
FileZilla is powerful Open Source FTP/SFTP client with many features. It includes a site manager to store all your connection details and logins as well as an Explorer style interface that shows the local and remote folders and can be customized independently. The program offers support for firewalls and proxy connections as well as SSL… Continue reading FileZilla 3.1.1