I’ve just installed the ‘email on three’ application onto my Nokia e71. It seems to be a rebranded version of SEVEN; a push email solution for various mobile devices including Symbian based mobile phones. So far it seems to be pretty good, and...

Matt Cutts, head of webspam at Google, has written a couple of very interesting articles describing how to hook up Wii peripherals to an Ubuntu Pc over bluetooth. The first article describes how to hook Ubuntu up to a Wiimote, followed by another...

As you might have seen in the news, the UK Parliament has made available records of MPs’ expenses from 2004/05 - 2007/08. Obviously these records can reach hundreds of pages for each MP and will take some time to sift through. It seems to me that by...

The Ubuntu-UK mailing list brings news of the emergence of the ‘Pirate Party UK‘ (PPUK). Inspired by the Swedish Piratpartiet, the PPUK is a single issue political party campaigning principally for the reformation of copyright law and patent...

For a while now I’ve found that ondemand CPU frequency scaling (enabled by default) makes my laptop seem sluggish under Ubuntu. Basically the CPU speed doesn’t seem to increase quickly enough to keep up with the sudden brief bursts of demand caused...