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Month at a glance

First month of Kahvipapu is behind. So how did it go? Here’s some interesting statistics:

• 60 000~ unique visitors
• 50~ gigabytes of traffic
• 58% of visitors used Windows, 35% used Linux, 5% used Mac, rest unknown or BSD or Solaris.
• 85.8% used Mozilla Firefox, only 4.7% used Internet Explorer. Mozilla suite and Opera shared 2.8%. Rest various browsers like Konqueror and Safari

Article highlights were Linux gaming articles which reached unexpectedly high popularity. Don’t worry, more parts coming! Hopefully these articles got a few Windows running people more interested in Linux. I was flooded with comments like “Why didn’t you mention game X”. I tried my best to find the top games for Linux, but apparently it’s not that easy job. I’d say, old myth “Linux has no games” hardly stands. Of course it might not have latest top-hit commercial mass games, but it has games. Good ones.

Awesome Linux Apps you might not know about

littleubuntu.com has collected a very nice list of Linux apps you might not know about. Interesting list indeed. Check it out!

Whack the iPhone

iPhone has been hot topic in the news lately. However, one thing I noticed, the reviewers have some strange urge to break the iPhone.

Will it Blend has definitely the most brutal iPhone killing to date. They literally turn the iPhone to dust! Check to video for a heart-breaking iPhone kill.

Ars Technica has also released their (very detailed and nice) review of iPhone. And of course, they just had to kill the iPhone and perform autopsy. iFixit has cleaner autopsy pictures.

Wired also just had to tear iPhone apart. And this guy managed to break his iPhone under 24 hours.

Please people, stop destroying iPhones

Easy addons for Ubuntu

Looking for extra addon software for Ubuntu? getdeb.net offers easy downloads for several Ubuntu version. Nice and clean site with easy, working downloads.

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Launchpad and Storm

Canonical Inc, the company behind Ubuntu Linux and Launchpad announced they will finally open source Launchpad. Launchpad is a project management site, like Sourceforge for example. The first component to be open sourced is object relation mapping tool named Storm. Written in python that simplifies development of database-backed applications in Python. Storm has caused quite a bit buzz and hype in Python circles, and no doubt it’s a fantastic tool.

I noticed that Python-trolls attacked OSNews post about Storm already, bashing PHP for not having anything like Storm. Just to point out, PHP has ORM library too, named PHPDoctrine. PHPDoctrine is also Google’s Summer of Code project.

Playstation 3 price drop. Sort of.

Sony just announced Playstation 3 price drop down to $499 (USD). The catch is, price drop affects only US customers. Many think $499 is low enough price to get people more interested in PS3. It probably is. However this is the case only in the US.

So how is the rest of the world? Bad. Just for the comparison, Playstation 3 costs 679€ in Finland. That’s $925 USD! Even if the price drops with $100 (or even €, doesn’t really matter) the price is more than Wii and Xbox360 combined. Australians need to pay around $850 USD for PS3. Sony is touting how PS3 is worth of its price. $499? Probably. $925? Hardly.

Sony, are you listening? How about price drops outside the US? Less than 4 million consoles sold since the launch is pathetic. Wii has sold more than twice more! Pretty good for a crappy console that’s nothing more than ‘impulse buy’, isn’t it?

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New theme

Kahvipapu finally got an original theme. Thanks to Pupung for the great work

Incredibly cool touchscreen products

Touchscreen is not a new technology, but it is steadily coming more mainstream. Touchscreens definitely have a lot of huge potential to ease interaction with our everyday gadgets and computers, so here is a little roundup of current touchscreen usage in real products.

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