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Jolla actually made a Sailfish smartphone with Android app compatibility

# 2013-05-20 17:27:46, Pocketables
Few people probably remember Jolla, the Finnish company comprised of many who left Nokia after the Windows Phone deal. Instead of producing Windows devices, the company decided to continue making Nokia-esq smartphones with the Sailfish operating system, based on MeeGo, which is in turn based on Linu...

Arduino Yun weds Arduino, WiFi and linux at Maker Faire 2013

# 2013-05-20 08:29:00, Engadget
The Arduino Robot wasn't the only interesting product the Italian company launched at Maker Faire this past weekend. Arduino Y

Google Glass rooted and hacked to run Ubuntu live at Google I/O

# 2013-05-16 12:22:00, Engadget
Today at Google I/O the company held a session entitled "Voiding your Warranty" where employees demonstrated how to root Google Glass and install Ubuntu on it. What you're seeing above is a screenshot from a laptop running a terminal window on top and showing the screencast output from Glass on ...

How to fix YouTube lag on your Chromebook

# 2013-05-14 09:03:05, Pocketables
While the Samsung Chromebook has a great form factor, and in general just looks awesome, it suffers from a problem that most other Chromebooks suffer from, as well (except the Chromebook Pixel). Namely, there just isn’t enough memory and processing power to do very intensive computing tasks. And w...

Cracking Sands Racing for Chrome proves Chrome OS is a real OS

# 2013-05-10 08:28:05, Pocketables
I’m finally starting to feel a little less crazy for spending so much on Google’s flagship Chromebook Pixel. Packaged apps that run locally on Chrome devices and function offline have already arrived and are growing in number every day, and even more exciting Chrome announcements are right aro...

Freeman on a free OS: Half-Life 2 now available on Steam for Linux

# 2013-05-10 07:39:00, Engadget
You already know that Half-Life 2 for Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC and OS X is excellent, but have you tried it on Linux? Well, yes, technically speaking, you couldn't actually play that version until this week when it launched on Steam for Linux, but our question stands! Yeah, that's what ...

The ISS Has Ditched Windows Entirely--For Linux

# 2013-05-10 01:01:00, Gizmodo
The United Space Alliance has decided to stop using all Windows computers aboard the ISS, in favour of Linux—to ensure it's systems are "stable and reliable”. Ouch.Read more...

Deal alert: Buy the Samsung Chromebook on ARM for only $186.50 from Amazon

# 2013-05-09 05:55:56, Pocketables
For those of you on the fence about Chrome OS and Chromebooks, now has never been a better time to try it out. For a very limited time, Amazon is selling a handful of the new Samsung Chromebooks for only $186.50 – a full $62.50 off the normal asking price of $249. This is part The post Deal alert:...

Three awesome reasons to try the Chrome OS dev channel now

# 2013-05-09 05:38:12, Pocketables
The dev channel on Chrome OS can elicit mixed reactions from different people. Some people love the adventure, and others tend to cower before anything other than stable. Personally, I’m someone who sits on the fence, spending some of my time in beta and some of my time in dev. (Stable is too bori...

First Else's Splay officially comes to Android as a thumb-friendly launcher (video)

# 2013-05-07 09:31:00, Engadget
Emblaze's long-canceled First Else may never come back in its original form, but to our surprise, its futuristic Splay interface has finally been ported to Android! Released as a free beta by the same company, this fan-shaped launcher offers a similar single-hand experience that the ALP device o...

Tip: This cheap adapter brings full HDMI compatibility to the Chromebook Pixel

# 2013-05-06 11:01:34, Pocketables
No HDMI port on Google’s Chromebook Pixel? No problem! When I first heard that Google had opted not to include an HDMI port on the Pixel, I was a little taken aback – after all, this a the most premium Chromebook around, and my dinky little $249 Samsung Chromebook had an HDMI port. What was The ...

Debian 7.0 'Wheezy' now available, lets Linux users mix architectures

# 2013-05-05 00:03:00, Engadget
In a market crowded by ocelots, cows and mountain lions, it's nice to see an operating system that isn't named after an animal. The trend bucking OS? Debian's 7.0 update, Wheezy. Okay, it's technically the name of a penguin from Toy Story, but we'll give it a pass. The distro's latest revision h...

Google launches Chrome packaged app for Google Keep

# 2013-05-02 11:46:00, Pocketables
Perhaps to celebrate yesterday’s arrival of Chrome packaged apps to a wider audience, Google today announced an official app for Google Keep, Google’s new note-taking app available in Google Drive on the web and as an Android app. Bringing this to Chrome in the form of an official packaged app m...

The LTE Chromebook Pixel might already be compatible with CDMA, HSPA+, and GPS

# 2013-05-02 06:09:31, Pocketables
For those of you disappointed to find out that the $1449 64GB LTE Chromebook Pixel doesn’t fall back on 3G, and only supports Verizon’s own flavor of LTE, there is hope. It appears that the Pixel uses a wireless card that is capable of falling back onto CDMA and HSPA+/UMTS frequencies worldwide,...

Jack Lumber now available on Steam

# 2013-04-30 13:00:00, TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Jack Lumber is an excellent game that arrived on iOS last year. It's reminiscient of Fruit Ninja, in that you drag your finger around the screen to chop through wood, though I think it's an improvement on Halfbrick's formula -- it's got a more complex meta game, and the mechanic is a little deep...

ASUS will soon join the Chrome OS party

# 2013-04-30 04:36:06, Pocketables
We can now add ASUS to the growing list of Chrome OS manufacturers, which also includes Samsung, Acer, HP, and Lenovo. This is according to a rumor corroborated by DigiTimes, which states that although ASUS originally had no plans to manufacture a Chrome OS device, Chromebook sales have proven to be...

Linux kernel version 3.9 adds better support for Chromebooks, maybe even yours

# 2013-04-30 02:34:00, Engadget
Linus Torvalds has pulled the big red lever marked Version 3.9, unleashing the latest Linux kernel onto the world and at the same time bringing some good news for Chromebook tinkerers. The update builds on the Chromebook Pixel tweak we saw back in February by adding support for components in "Ch...

Why Chrome OS tablets are a bad idea

# 2013-04-26 12:03:28, Pocketables
A couple days ago, Aaron wrote an interesting piece on how some new screen rotation features in dev builds of Chrome OS might indicate plans for a Chrome OS tablet. While an interesting proposition, and one that many might like to see, I find it doubtful that it will be happening any time soon – T...

Ubuntu 13.04 available Thursday, brings a streamlined footprint to the forefront (update)

# 2013-04-24 15:32:00, Engadget
From an end user's perspective, it's always nice to see developers take a step back and focus on streamlining their code, rather than simply piling on new features. Apple used the strategy to great success with Snow Leopard, and now Canonical is set to follow suit with Raring Ringtail, also know...

Google pulls buggy dev channel update for Chrome OS

# 2013-04-24 09:46:25, Pocketables
One of the advantages of running the dev channel on Chrome OS is that you always have the latest and greatest, bleeding-edge software from Google. I’ll be the first to admit that it’s rather exciting to try out new features before most other people, report bugs to Google’s Chrome team, and gen...

BitTorrent Sync Alpha now open to all, adds one-way sync and one-time sharing

# 2013-04-23 06:00:00, Engadget
While BitTorrent threw its hat into the cloud storage ring this January with an early version of its Sync app, it was hard to be truly excited when only a small circle could use it. The company isn't waiting for a completely polished version to renew our interest, however -- it's making BitTorre...

BeagleBone Black packs 1GHz ARM CPU, 512MB RAM for just $45 (video)

# 2013-04-22 12:57:00, Engadget
The BeagleBone might be just the piece of kit for the DIY set itching to boot Linux in 10 seconds, but the freshly unveiled BeagleBone Black packs an even greater punch -- and the same speedy start times -- at just half the price of its predecessor. The $45 credit card-sized package totes a 1GHz...

Here is a temporary fix for the Spotify bug on the Chromebook Pixel

# 2013-04-22 06:34:42, Pocketables
Once I learned how to use Spotify on Google’s Chrome OS, I was overjoyed. Then, when I got a Chromebook Pixel and realized that Spotify doesn’t quite work the way it’s supposed to on this device, I was immediately dismayed. Specifically, it seems as if there is a compatibility issue between th...