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 [...]
I’ve been properly trying out Chromium (currently 4.0.204.0) on my Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) laptop. It’s been a mixed bag. Here’s some pros: Incredible start up. Really, incredible. Click icon, start using app IMMEDIATELY. I’m really not used to that. Chromium will have started up in half the time it takes Firefox 3.5 to load the [...]
Forget Vinagre, forget Terminal Services Client, because there’s one tool now available that combines the best of both into one : GRDC. It’s a gnome tool that allows you to create a series of VNC and RDP entries (shortcuts if you like) and then launch them with a double-click. I’ve nominated it for sysadmin tool [...]