Ubuntu Edge: convergence in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bk9-v8Sl4yU

Victor Palau of Canonical shows how the Ubuntu Edge's convergence will work, using a Nexus 4 as a demo unit. To help make the Ubuntu Edge a reality, visit http://igg.me/at/ubuntuedge

Introducing the new Ubuntu Edge

4 days ago Canonical made a teaser on the ubuntu.com website making people wonder what it could be. I have seen many articles on the internet trying to guess what it is, but today Canonical reveals the new Ubuntu Edge. Note that the following is taken from Canonical's speech (not my words)

Create a speaking Linux shell script with Google

After using google to translate text and decode audio into text, now we are about to make a small text to speech engine that uses google too. This is easy and pretty useful. Besides, it supports all languages (it is google, right?)

Enjoy the new Wine 1.6

The Wine development team have made version 1.6 available after 16 months of hard work. There are about 10,000 different changes. Highlights include the new Mac driver, complete support for window transparency and a new package for mono. NET support.

Using Google Translate in PHP

After Hacking Google Voice API, We are about to hack Google Translate this time! We are going to write a full featured yet basic class in php to help us use Google Translate. The best part is that it is going to be lightweight and dependency-free.

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Building a simple API using node.js

I have already introduced node.js in a previous article and explained how to install it in another one. Now it is time to go further with it. Basically what we will try to do today is to create a basic yet functional API server using node.js along with restify and mongoose, which are two modules.