All the time, I hear people claiming that the first thing they do with a stock Ubuntu build is turn off “useless” Compiz.  Now, I don’t mind that they’re turning it off – it’s their computer.  But if these people are truly claiming that Compiz is useless and adds nothing, then they’re extremely ignorant of [...]

Often overlooked, there are a couple of things that Vista got right. Well, okay, one thing then. No, not UAC, I’m talking about the Vista snipping tool. Since I use Vista as work, I know the O/S pretty well and if I had to point out one feature that’s missing from a default Ubuntu build, [...]

I recently decided to install Picasa on my laptop, which runs Ubuntu 9.10.  I was both impressed and disappointed.  Impressed with the slick user interface, smooth scrolling, silky timeline, spotless import and beautiful fades and zooms.  But when I came to tag my pictures using it, I was soon frustrated. First off, although Picasa provdes [...]