By default the iOS supports only one programming language: Objective-C.  By jailbreaking, you can add several more languages–Python, Java, and Ruby.  What about Perl?  As it turns out you can also install Perl, it just requires a few extra steps.  First, you will install wget, and need to be able to access your device’s terminal (ssh, or MobileTerminal).

Today’s post is a guest post by reader Gvape.

In Ubuntu, you have your standard GNOME interface, but sometimes things can get a little stale.  What if you want to try something new? There are a couple of other Desktop Environments, but my favorite is KDE.

What program promises to detect malware using heuristic scanning techniques and scan all your startup items–from the Start menu folder to Internet Explorer extensions and everything in between?  SafeReturner ($29.95), an emerging tool in the anti-malware software business.

Earlier today (September 1st), Apple pushed out a new release of iTunes.  No, not 9.2.1 (blah), not 9.3 (bleh), but 10.0. These new major versions are what get hardcore geeks excited [Editor's note: about iTunes?], and you may be wondering if it is worth the upgrade.  (Note that if 10 is anything like 9, it won’t run in Wine.  At all.  So if you’re not on Windows or Mac, well, tough. [Editor's note:  hint--it is.])  With that out of the way, on with the review!

Say you’re watching a totally legal thing on Megavideo, like this video of a talking dog, when you come across a message saying:

What do you do?  Do you give up hope of ever seeing the entire first season of Eureka in one day talking dog finish?  No! 

This probably won’t be of much use to you Linux users out there, as you have a multitude of screen-shot programs available, but for us BSD users, I have yet to find a screen-shot program in the ports.  But, that doesn’t mean that none are available.  In fact, if you have X installed (which you should), you have a great tool, xwd, at your disposal!  First, to take a screen-shot, run this command:

Do you want to download a torrent from a computer that you can’t install a torrent client on–say, a public computer or a computer running an operating system you don’t know?  Try BitLet, a free torrenting webapp.

A few days ago, I taught you how to modify FreeBSD’s source code and apply the changes system-wide.  Now, I will teach you how to only modify a single part of FreeBSD, without having to rebuild the entire system (because who has the time and resources for that?).

As you may already know, FreeBSD is open-source, and you may be wondering where you can find the FreeBSD source code so you can make modifications to it–in this article, I will tell you where the source is.  The answer may surprise you: the source code is already on your computer, sitting is the /usr/src directory.

So you’ve written a killer Perl script and want to distribute it as a binary executable instead of a pl file?  Try this before trying other harder ways–there was a program called perlcc that could compile Perl code, but, being too glitchy, it was removed from some Perl installations, like Ubuntu’s installation–and it’s not in the repositories.