Month: June 2008

  • Today is WWDC 2008

    Ryan Orser will be covering this from the internet via engadget.com. The conference starts at 10 AM PT which is less then 2 hours away.

  • A Review of Sony Vaio VGN-NR285D Laptop

    This laptop is only available in Canada, though you can get similar laptops all over the world. This laptop compared to my other laptop was the easiest to work with Linux. I had all the video and wireless cards working right out of the box with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. The only thing was when…

  • A Review of Dream Chess.

    As a old chess player I have been around looking for chess games to play. I had not been able to play since I was 10 because no one will actually play with me since I beat my mom in 3 turns… I have always enjoyed a good game of chess so I have decided…

  • Ryan Orser Podcast Season 1 Episode 9

    Todays Podcast features the new Songbird music application, how to use Songbird and why there was a long time between podcasts. The next Podcast will come out Wednesday June 11th, 2008. To download click the preferred format: MP3 or OGG

  • A Review of Songbird.

    Songbird is another program based on Mozilla and is a cool music application as you can change the themes, called feathers, download music though it does say if you you like it buy it, please take the hint as it will help the artists make some money… if they ever do get money from their…

  • Spicebird

    Many people may ask: What is Spicebrid? Spicebird is almost exactly like Thunderbird but with a twist. You can download Spicebird here. This is a email, newsfeed, rssreader, and so on and so forth but it really has a nicer interface when you go the the preferences menu. This jumble of fun has instant messaging,…

  • New Laptop

    Yes I did get a new laptop because my old laptop motherboard died last Thursday. Since then I have  replaced the laptop, worked out a few bugs to get Ubuntu working on this new one. I grabbed a Sony VAIO VGN-NR285D which has 2 GB of RAM, 200 GB of HDD, and a Core 2…