different ways

What do you do with tech leftovers? Combat rising e-waste by using old PCs and electronics in different ways or recycling them conscientiously.

Scribbles and Snaps: "When you need to apply the same action to multiple photos, digiKam's batch processing capabilities can come in rather handy.

And the photo management application provides different ways to apply actions to a photo batch in one fell swoop."

On the Zend Developer Zone, Kevin has posted the latest episode of their ZendCon Sessions podcast series - Ilia Alshanetsky's talk about memcached.

Quentin Zervaas has posted a new tutorial on phpRiot.com today with a quick look at using Zend_Db to pull information out of your database.

php|architect has published the latest episode in their "oddWeek" podcast series today - episode 5 with an interview with Matthew Turland.

MakeUseOf: "There are so many ways you can gain back control that you never have to resort to such extreme measures.

In this article, we take a look at some of the ways you can deal with unresponsive applications on your Linux box."

Packt: "In this article by Christer Edwards, you'll learn a number of different ways to upgrade an existing Ubuntu installation.

Whether it is a Desktop, Laptop or Server, you'll find instructions below. These methods have been tested by volunteers around the world and should prove to be simple and problem free for you as well."

NETTUTS.com has posted Day 2 of their "CodeIgniter from Scratch" series of vidcasts following up on the first day.

ghacks: "Fortunately Linux has grown up quite a bit so it's not that difficult to start an application. In fact, I would argue that starting an application in Linux is easier than it is in Windows."

In this new post to her blog Lorna Mitchell talks a bit about the upcoming TestFest event happening in Manchester next weekend and what she's learned about testing PHP to make things flow a bit smoother for her while there (and you, should you want to write tests in the future).