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I wanted to record calls on my Android phone (Nexus one). The easy way would have been to download an app but I like tinkering. And given that I recently bought Tasker, android’s very own swiss knife, I thought I should give it a run. After just an hour I was able to create my very own call recorder (some time went into trial and error with things as this was my first major task with tasker and also some things didn’t work with nexus one, which I will note below). I’ll outline the process to set it up here in as much detail as possible and will also provide the profiles. Please note that I made this setup for nexus one but it should work on pretty much any android phone

This week the Behind KDE interview is with a well known old-timer. He is the guru of kdelibs, but do you know what he does for KDE Sysadmin? Or should I say 'did'? Leave a comment if you get his old timer joke. Meet the one who moved files manually in the CVS era. Meet the guy who developed for KDE before some of you were even born. See how Charm and jazz play an important role in his life. Meet David Faure!

Canonical, promoter of the Ubuntu Linux, is hosting an Ubuntu Hardware Summit for PC partners on Sept. 24. The big news involves uTouch and a dual-boot strategy vs. Windows. The big question: Can Canonical convince more PC and mobile device makers to embrace Ubuntu amid rising competition from Google Android? Here are some best guesses.

Even if you're not a database wonk, you've probably been hearing some talk about this newfangled thing called CouchDB. For one thing, the new Ubuntu desktop uses it for things like the addressbook and Tomboy notes. So what is CouchDB, anyway?

Delicious Morsel have open sourced Feeds, the popular RSS feed reader for webOS. It is now available on GitHub along with WootOn!, another Delicious Morsel app designed to alert users of daily deals.

If you believe everything you read on the Internet, then Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu distribution, can't do anything right. Part of the reason for this attitude is that, because of Ubuntu's popularity, Canonical is under a scrutiny so intense that every fault is magnified. Another part of the reason is that Canonical is visibly struggling with balancing its commercial efforts with being a corporate citizen of free and open source software (FOSS).

The ext3 or third extended filesystem is a journaled file system that is commonly used by the Linux kernel. It is the default file system for many popular Linux distributions.This tutorial will explain how to read Ext3/Ext4 linux partition from windows 7.

Whether you're looking to run your own web server or searching for an ideal web host for your next PCI compliant e-commerce site, it's extraordinarily beneficial to know about security. In our ongoing effort to help spread the word about security as it pertains to web hosting, we would like to present a list of 7 of the best web server security tools available. All of these tools are powerful and freely available, and they should all be utilized on a truly secure server.

This weeks interview in this series of behind KDE is with a well known old-timer. We all know that he is the guru of kdelibs, but do you know what he does for kdesysadmin? Or should I say 'did'? Meet the guy who developed for KDE while some of you were not even born. Meet the one who moved files manually in the cvs era and see how Charm and Jazz play an important role in his life. Meet David Faure!

I'm working on a new Ubuntu configuration to deploy for friends and family. One of the capabilities I wanted to add was simple remote webcam viewing. While webcam-server is old it met my requirements but it's a command-line application. To deploy webcam-server I had to make it more friendly which meant making a video device selection dialog for it. My current programming hammer is BASH shell scripting but to make a GUI I turned to utilities that can produce dialogs and provide feedback to command-line applications. There are many to choose from but for different environments I had to make custom versions of the script, select the dialoger with a script parameter, or try to select it dynamically. In the great tradition of overdesign I chose the latter.

The downside to eReaders is generally the small screen. You open up a PDF file and the fonts are smaller than you’d wish them to be. You can always zoom, but why not prepare your file from the beginning? If you have a CHM file and you want to convert it to a PDF to be later loaded on your eReader, try this:

Little dinky underpowered mobile phones, netbooks, and laptops are getting all the attention these days. Well what about us folks who still need good capable desktop PCs? So I asked for a hotrodded version of ZaReason's Limbo to review, even though the $799 base model has plenty of goodies for the demanding user

Photo management software is a type of computer application that helps users to organize their digital image collection.

Michael Geist writes: "In the years before the emergence of the Internet, three online service providers battled in the United States for market supremacy. America Online (later AOL), Prodigy and Compuserve each adopted "walled garden" strategies that pinned their hopes on exclusive content to attract large subscriber bases." History has shown that "walled gardens" don't work (except if you're a gardener!).

A full review of aptosid 2010-02. I recently reviewed Linux Mint Debian, a very user-friendly version of Linux Mint based on Debian. This time I looked at another distro based on Debian, called aptosid. Aptosid, for those who aren’t familiar with it, is actually made by the same developers that created the popular distro Sidux. There was apparently some conflict and controversy within the Sidux e.V association that resulted in Sidux morphing into Aptosid.

Engineers and product managers from device and computer manufacturers and designers will meet in Taipei, Taiwan for a free day-long session hosted by Canonical Ltd. on Sept 24, 2010.

Many times we face a situation when our Ubuntu Netbook becomes pretty slow. And when we check out our RAM, we find that only half of our RAM is used and the SWAP memory usage is gone upto 25% or 50% or even more. Confused?? Swap memory is used as an alternative to RAM. It is a small partition in the hard disk, that is used to give your system extra memory when your RAM is full. However, it is not as efficient as RAM and quite slow.

We seem to be seeing a rise again in the discussions surrounding free and open source software licensing complexity, and the fear that open source may "infect" or "taint" your software. Just yesterday I received email from a marketing department of yet another company with source scanning tools that ensure against open source “contamination” and “unclean IP”. Let’s get a few things out of the way. This is not an open source problem. If you program in C++ and have third-party ISV library code available, then someone could inadvertently copy source code. Or remove a copyright notice. On top of that, managing a complex sourcing of software is not that difficult.

The endless rebuilding of data mappers, logging code, object resolution mechanisms, messaging systems and web frameworks adds up to a massive waste of time, effort and potential. I’m not talking about public collaborative efforts, I’m talking about in house “Not invented here” syndrome. This is what happens when you have a community cut off from the world. A community that doesn’t talk to each other and work together. This is what the .net community is.

Ryan Cartwright has written an article on how to backup Gmail with Getmail. It is an excellent piece, but Getmail is a command line program, and while most readers of FSM will doubtless be at home there and in configuring XML files, we also like to behave like electric currents and take the course of least resistance to get from A to B. Besides, using the Thunderbird (or Evolution) e-mail clients to backup Gmail has other advantages too. Read the full article at Free Software Magazine.