Articles by scaine

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Chromium on Ubuntu

September 2, 2009 scaine 0

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 […]

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GRDC – VNC and RDP in one amazing tool

May 10, 2009 scaine 0

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 […]

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Meet Elisa

November 25, 2007 scaine 0

Been a while since I’ve posted, hasn’t it? But that just means that there’s even more cool stuff to nail now that I’m back. To kick off, here’s a video showing the latest and greatest from Fluendo’s Elisa media centre. Having watched all that, I […]

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Earthrise

November 17, 2007 scaine 0

I sincerely hope this works.  If it does, you can see the earth rising over the moon, from about 100K above the moon’s surface.  From this Register article. Shame – that embedded object didn’t work.  You can still see the movie by using the link above, […]