Category: Tech

My main programming interest is Qt, which is a programming toolkit which allows the same program to be deployed on the Mac, Windows, and X-Window systems such as exist on Linux and Solaris. One...

Both the press and the blogosphere lately have been buzzing with news of a new “trojan” program known as “Yusufali-A“. This program, when the user types a number of words commonly used in porn,...

No, not just that they rat on their users to the Chinese government. Their site is one of the most frustratingly badly organised out there. I use Yahoo mail and groups. I use secure...

A few months ago I blogged here in response to an article in Linux Format magazine in which the author, Paul Hudson, said that Mac OS X “sucks”. Most of the time I use...

I’ve been a Mac user for well over a year now, and I’m more than impressed with the whole system, particularly of course the operating system. I wouldn’t have touched the Mac if it...

Last weekend I finally bit the bullet and bought the latest version of Apple’s Mac operating system, OS X Tiger or 10.4. Apple has given all its versions of OS X big-cat names, which...

For anyone out there who likes the idea of the Dashboard Widgets which come with the latest edition of Mac OS X (Tiger) who doesn’t want to buy a Mac or (like me) can’t...

I was really quite excited about yesterday’s LugRadio Live event in Wolverhampton. LugRadio is a fortnightly “radio” show (i.e. downloadable recorded show) produced by the Wolverhampton Linux User Group led by Jono Bacon, a...

SUSE Professional Linux 9.3 is the first Linux package I’ve actually bought (as opposed to getting it on a magazine cover disk) since version 9.1 last May. I’ve actually bought all of SUSE’s releases...

When I got onto this computer at London’s Apple store, I noticed a blog entry apparently written by someone apparently using this very computer. Yesterday I was one of the people who queued halfway...

The Guardian had a feature yesterday in its Online section entitled The next big thing, in which it seems to suggest that blogs are suddenly gaining visibility. Up until now, they have been “associated...

I just got the Apple OS X update for my Mac, among the many benefits of which is said to be a new version of Safari, Apple’s own web browser. Apparently Safari has had...

Recently there’s been a whole batch of minor upgrades to Mozilla’s internet applications, and a minor upgrade to my favoured browser, Camino, is promised for next week. My main annoyance with Camino is that,...

The new version of KDE, one of two major “desktop environments” for Unix-type operating systems like Linux, was released on Wednesday, and like a lot of users, I eagerly awaited packages I could download...

Not often that I repost CAIR press releases, but since this covers both Muslim community issues and tech issues, I thought this would interest any Muslim interested in buying Dell’s overpriced, overrated computers with...

It’s fairly common for Muslims to enounter the arrogance of a particular religious sect, which prides itself on its lack of “dogma” but in fact probably exceeds all other religions in its total contempt...

Yesterday I read on OSNews that the company behind Qt, the toolkit with which I write all my programs including Catkin, have finally decided to release the Windows version of the software as “open...

The latest edition of Linux Format includes an article by its Deputy Editor, Paul Hudson, about how much he hates the Mac’s operating system. LXF produces all its content on Macs (in fact, I’ve...

Or rather, a Mac mini. I’d have used Mini Mac myself, because then you can write it miniMac and it sort of fits into Apple’s usual scheme – iMac, eMac, iBook (Mac laptop), iLife,...

The BBC’s got this amusing feature on how parents so often rely on their children for support with the computers they presume their children know so much about (IT Support for your Parents). I’ve...