Category: Software

  • 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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  • Compiz? Rubbish!

    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

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  • Screenshot Capture with Shutter

    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,

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  • Tagging JPG photos using EXIF properties

    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

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