October 2010

VLC for itunes app

VLC, argubly the best video player out there, has finally come out for the iPhone. Check it out in iStore – you’ll be pleasantly surprised that it is actually free too! So, let’s give it a quick roadtest. I have a iPhone 3GS and was keen to give it a go as most of the […]

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HIPIX Image Format

A company called Human Monitoring Ltd have recently announced a new image compression technology based on the existing h.264 standard (which that has been around a while and you may have come across it with video files). The advantage of using an existing standard as opposed to creating a new one is that it can […]

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Reset Opensuse root password

Forgotten the root password to your linux system? Don’t want to reinstall and lose your files or are you just plain lazy? Here is an easy way to reset the root password if you ever find yourself in that situation. I must admit, I was surprised how easy it was. I had an old test […]

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