Category: Technical

  • Apple : All About the Money

    The problem I have with Apple is that everything they do, they do for profit.  Not the consumer, not the industry, just their profit.  Yes, their hardware is top class (iPhone 4 notwithstanding), but there’s just too many little things about using Apple products that keep ramming the point home. 1. Pods, Phones and Pads

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  • Chromium (Take Two)

    It was September last year when I last properly tried Chromium in Ubuntu.  Back then, there was no bookmark sync, extensions were a glint in the dev’s eyes and GTK theme support was a new feature. I didn’t particularly elaborate in that article about why I didn’t make the switch back then.  In fact, I

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  • Blogilo

    After a bit of research, spurred on by this OMG Ubuntu! article, I bit the bullet and installed Blogilo. Before doing so, I tried BloGTK and Gnome Blog. The former had potential, but no WYSIWYG editor, so you had to know your HTML. I don’t. The latter was incredibly basic and doesn’t even download previous

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  • Great Ubuntu Software

    Just a quick list of top-quality Ubuntu software that you may or may not have heard about.  In no particular order.  Many are installable from the repository, while others might require a little google/search for their PPA (I’ve kicked you off with a link for each).  This post revolves around Ubuntu 10.04 – the Lucid

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  • Scaine.net : Take Three

    Sorry everyone.  The old site borked up during an upgrade, and fickle so-and-so that I am, I decided to jump ship and redo the site from scratch.  The old site was running Drupal 6, but this time around I’ve installed a WordPress 3 instance. Very, very impressive.  The admin interface is very clean and quick,

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