The film The Kite Runner (German: Drachenläufer) is adapted from the book with the same title. I have read the book and it is very enjoyable. The film is, however, something different. It is obvious that it is not possible to include every single scene from the book, and thus the film can not touch ...

This is so awesome!

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Thanks to the efforts of our hero Matthew Lewis (aka penguinbait), KDE 3.5.8 with KOffice can be enjoyed on both Nokia N800 and N810 (read also the step-by-step instructions). One of the screenshots from him:

Let’s compare. Google Code Project Hosting (GCPJ) vs SourceForge.net (SF).

Blur is an interesting effect, mainly because it lets us enjoy the main object yet the out-of-focus parts add something to the realism. Like in the default KDE 4.0’s splash screen:

In case you want to build Qt Embedded 2.3.x — I know it’s old but who knows — with gcc 4.x which is what modern distributions (like the latest OpenSUSE) offer, you might get error messages like this:

It just came to mind. What if for the next KDE release events, parties, or any other get-together occasions, we should prepare cookies, something like the Warsaw Almond cookies (Warschauer Mandelgebäck)? It will be a challenge, though, to bake them for more than a dozen hungry mortals….

For those who were waiting for this Canon EOS 450D, finally it’s out! There is a nice overview in dpreview.com, comparing 450D and 400D. Basically, it sports a 12 megapixel CMOS sensor, a SecureDigital card slot (instead of CompactFlash), larger viewfinder, large (3″) display, 14-bit ADC, personaliz...

So, for the n-th time, I managed to spam PlanetKDE 🙁

Just over these two weeks, over 5 thousands came to my humble blog from XDA-developer’s forum. It turned out that Chad “thundershadow14”, based on the HTC Touch port, set to create a PictureFlow-based image viewer and release it as Windows Mobile executables. And seems that people like it, there are...

He who begins many things finishes but few. — Italian proverb

What if your life is built upon stacks of lies? What if your past mistake haunts you until this very second? What if the handful people that know about your sin try to help you but they are facing death as time closes by? What if there is a dark side in each and every one of us, but somehow there is...

In the third generation of iPod nano, Apple has included the famous Cover Flow feature. But what if your iPod belongs to the generation before this? Well, AFAIK Cover Flow is not available. Either Apple would like the owners to upgrade or the hardware is simply not powerful enough. Pick your battle.

KDE 4.0 is doubtlessly the most discussed KDE release at the moment. Some praise it, some don’t really favor it. But whether you’re going to like it or not, it’s worth to, at least, give it a try.

I love aubergine (or eggplant, for the Americans). I love pasta. Imagine how exciting I was when I stumbled upon Pasta alla Norma recipe from Jamie’s Italy (which is also a great book, BTW). It is simply a crime not to try this fabulous Sicilian dish. For my experiment, I substituted spaghetti with ...

Walking around in Weihnachtsmarkt, we noticed someone selling spices. It looks convincing, actually they sell products from Dudel. Among others, there was Tandoori masala so we bought it and gave it a try. It is more expensive that a spice bag found in typical Asian shop, but according to Dudel’s we...

Breach is a film adapated from the story of O’Neill vs Hanssen. O’Neill is an FBI agent wannabe, given an assignment to watch every single step of Hanssen, an FBI senior agent. FBI believes Hanssen is a double-agent, working for the Soviet but there is no proof. They want to catch Hanssen red-handed...

Cover Flow effect for Greenphone

Dear Lazyweb,

Open source is a radical idea itself. I think you either get open source or you don’t. — Donald Rosenberg, on The secret to Red Hat's success

The following puzzle might be trivial if you study physics and deal with lots of optics. Or, if you are simply good enough with math, especially with geometry.

The best thing about cooking is: there is no right or wrong. It means, you will not make any mistake.

In Germany, iPhone is sold with a price tag of 399 euros. But then you must sign a 24 months exclusive contract with T-Mobile, with a minimum plan of 49 euros monthly fee. This means (ignoring depreciation) at least you’ll lose 1575 euros in total. With one time activation fee, that makes it 1600 eu...

SpeedCrunch version 0.9 has just been released. The improvements are not really user visible, but check the ChangeLog and fixed bugs, nevertheless. Also, this release is available in 17 languages (and contributions are welcomed).

The only extraordinary thing about me is that I am just an ordinary man. (on thinking about myself)

The task is to solve this puzzle: