• Why Use Linux?. Nice summary of the Linux love fest in the blogosphere over the last couple of days. http://tinyurl.com/dy58zp #
• Must-Have Free Open Source Tools for Freelancers. http://tinyurl.com/cpcmul #
• Internet Explorer 8 launch fails to dent Firefox. http://tinyurl.com/da4y7n #

• 40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG files. http://tinyurl.com/d5eusw #

A new application has been released for the Ipod Touch and the Iphone.  A Boxee Media Center remote control application that in my opinion is CRISPY!!!!  The application which is currently available through the App store on your device can be downloaded for free and gives you control over any Boxee media center you may have running on your LAN.  The performance is great and there is no noticeable lag time in issuing commands. Here’s how it works.

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• Top 10 Reasons to Start a Business in a Recession. A little elementary but true. That’s why I did it. http://tinyurl.com/cqzcwu #
• 99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications. Some useful stuff. http://tinyurl.com/c5v5z3 #

On December 24th 1906, the world heard its first extended voice radio broadcast.  It was from Massachusetts and the broadcast was received by “sparks”, otherwise known as the communications officers on merchant ships in the Atlantic.  Since then it seems that radio has made a few technology advances in how we receive their product but since the onset of FM has been stuck in a technology black hole and refuses to accept that the world around them is changing.  Technology is changing and the method to deliver their broadcasts is going to change.  I will admit that the radio industry has made a few attempts to leap forward with the times but have been run over with a truck much like Frogger.  These are my views on some of the mistakes that have been made and where radio needs to advance too.

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• Tweet deck now supports updating Facebook! Oh happy days. http://tinyurl.com/cpzpm4. This is still in beta but seems to work. #

If your tired of updating all of your social networks individually (ie Twitter and Facebook), check out the new TweetDeck.

Just 2 days after the announcement by Seesmic of a standalone Facebook application that is built on Adobe Air just like TweetDeck,  Facebook now is integrated into TweetDeck.  You can post updates to Twitter and Facebook at the same time and retweet information in both directions.  The app is limited to posting updates only so you cant comment or reply to friends and have them show up on the other service, but is that really needed or wanted.  Other functions include the ability to see which friends are currently online and even includes the IM function in Facebook.

Installation is the standard 3 clicks and go, so no issues there.

This is now available for download but is still in Beta so there may be more functionality to come.  Really nice addition to Tweetdeck and makes my online social agenda so much easier.

Just a quick tip to prevent hot linking to the items on your blog. Saves bandwidth and prevent others from embedding images on your site in their blogs.

Add the following code to the .htaccess file at the root of your site.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?YourDomain.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|png|jpg)$ - [F]

Update: The original text for this tutorial was apparently submitted to me as an exact copy of an article by ah2 at ah2’s universe. Please check out the original article there.

The following are instructions for installing the HP Mini’s Mie interface on Ubuntu. The process is fairly easy but be aware that not everything works as expected yet. You can get most of the functionality of the new interface working but in my experience things like the special book marking shortcut added to Firefox don’t work. All in all the HP Mini’s interface is pretty good for small screens.

Warning some features may not work and I ran into an issue where the harbour-launcher used over 50% of the processor.

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If you haven’t heard of boxee it is an open source application that puts a frontend over the media we stream over the internet. Think of it as your Tivo interface with the recorded programs folder replaced by the content offered by last.fm, and hulu. Another way to look at it would be what Apple TV should have been. Awesome!

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