http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/computing?feed=rss&pg=7 narky's bookmarks tagged "computing" on Netvouz http://www.engadget.com/ Engadget Mobile: cellphone news and reviews from the editors of Engadget. Engadget is part of the Weblogs, Inc. Network, a network of more than 90 blogs. Computing > Blogs narky Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:17:40 GMT http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~willu/xmltv/index.html Many programs have some form of Electronic Programme Guide, or EPG. They need to get the data for the guide from somewhere, and because the data comes from different sources in different geographical locations, people have separated the uses of the data from the gathering of the data. XMLTV is a format for transferring EPG data. This page lists programs that gather EPG data for Australian TV channels. Programs that use XMLTV (see description below) need to get their data from somewhere. Some companies will sell you a direct XMLTV data feed. Other people use a program known as a grabber or scraper to gather data from the web and convert it into the XMLTV format. Computing > HTPC narky Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:02:34 GMT http://www.eyeball-design.com/fxzone/ FxZone 2001 Photoshop Tutorials Design > Digital Design > Web narky Mon, 22 May 2006 11:36:32 GMT http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html Computing > World Wide Web > Firefox and Mozilla narky Mon, 22 May 2006 12:15:52 GMT http://getfirefox.com/ Computing > World Wide Web > Firefox and Mozilla narky Mon, 22 May 2006 12:15:52 GMT http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/ Computing > World Wide Web > Firefox and Mozilla narky Mon, 22 May 2006 12:15:52 GMT http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations. Computing > Software narky Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:25:36 GMT http://geexbox.org/en/index.html GeeXboX is a media center software suite for personal computers, based on Linux and MPlayer, and implemented as a Live CD. As such, the system does not need to be permanently installed to a hard drive, as most modern operating systems would; instead, the computer can be rebooted with the GeeXboX CD when media playback is desired. This is a reasonable approach for who do not need media playback services while performing other tasks with the same computer, for users who wish to repurpose older computers as media centers, and for those seeking a free alternative to Windows XP Media Center Edition. Computing > HTPC narky Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:07:17 GMT http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/utf-8.xml This guide shows you how to set up and use the UTF-8 Unicode character set with your Gentoo Linux system, after explaining the benefits of Unicode and more specifically UTF-8. Computers do not understand text themselves. Instead, every character is represented by a number. Traditionally, each set of numbers used to represent alphabets and characters (known as a coding system, encoding or character set) was limited in size due to limitations in computer hardware. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:03:24 GMT http://www.spreadfirefox.com/ Help spread Firefox! Computing > World Wide Web > Firefox and Mozilla narky Mon, 22 May 2006 12:15:52 GMT