Gadget Wisdom

Fun with SIP, Android, and Free Dial-In Numbers

guru — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 04:13:42 +0000

Image via Wikipedia SIPDroid is a free VOIP client for Android that uses the standard SIP protocol. The VOIP calls will go over the data connection, be it 3G or Wi-Fi, and thus not affect your minute count. According to their FAQ, it “uses G.711 A-law to transmit voice which needs about 80 kBit/s in [...]

Simple Power Management Under Fedora

guru — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 03:55:06 +0000

Image via Wikipedia This post is a result of experimentation, but also of some information from the RHEL6 Power Management Guide. Most people tend to ignore power management, but remember, power management can result in lower utility bills as well as increased life of components. First, turn on CPUSpeed if it isn’t on. It may [...]

Category Based Subscriptions

guru — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:37:58 +0000

It has come to our attention that people might be confused about the category based subscription. If you are subscribed to all posts on Gadget Wisdom, the feed is www.gadgetwisdom.com/feed and will display as Gadget Wisdom. If you subscribed to one of the sections, ie Android.gadgetwisdom.com, you will only get Android themed posts. If this [...]

So You Want to Only Use One Microblogging Service

guru — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:43:43 +0000

Last time, we discussed some of the things we'd learned about Status.net and the OStatus standard. Now, our understanding is far from perfect, but we keep trying to learn more. This is some of our attempt to summarize it.

So You Want to Take Control of Your MicroBlogging

guru — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:31:13 +0000

Image via CrunchBase If you haven’t heard of Twitter, you may have been living under a rock for the last few years. If you aren’t quite sure what it is, then you are not alone. People who have Twitter accounts aren’t quite sure what to do with them, and some people will disagree on the [...]

SouthEast Linux Fest is Over

guru — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:30:19 +0000

This weekend, our Editor was down at the SouthEast Linux Fest in South Carolina. Three fun filled days of interacting, speakers, vendors, free stuff, and oddly enough, playing board games. The panels put a lot of interesting thoughts on the table, and over the coming weeks, we plan to discuss a few of them.

Planning for and Optimizing Solid State Drives

guru — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:30:38 +0000

This past week, we installed our first Solid State Drive. We had a lot of concern about this technology early on. There were reports of gradual performance degradation.This has been improved, however, and we’ll discuss some ways to better optimize your experience. Hopefully, in future Linux releases some of these options will be configured automatically [...]

Review: MJSI Hydroright Dual Flush Converter

guru — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:21:48 +0000

After writing about a dual flush retrofit kit, we became enthused about the idea of installing one of these ourselves. We don't have a plumber on staff, so our intrepid editor was forced to play with his own toilet. Please excuse if our terminology falls short as we try to explain basic toilet technology.

Froyo is Coming…Are you Ready?

guru — Fri, 21 May 2010 03:28:26 +0000

Image by ToastyKen via Flickr Android 2.2 is here…well, not on our Android devices. But Google announced the new version, codenamed Froyo. Here are some highlights: Dedicated shortcuts on the Home Screen for Phone, Launcher, and Browser. Password unlock in addition to pattern unlock New UI for camera controls Portable Hotspot built-in Improved Browser Performance [...]

LED Lightbulbs That Don’t Stink Coming Soon

guru — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:12:18 +0000

Image via Wikipedia We love the idea of LED lightbulbs. Like so many technologies, CFLs just started to get good, and adopted by the mainstream when the latest thing comes. LED lightbulbs last over ten times longer, use less electricity, and…are dim. Very very dim. We can’t even find equivalency on most LED bulb packages [...]