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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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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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Sweet Sweet Sony
Hopefully getting a PS3 shortly. Cannae wait. Already set up my gamer card and hopefully that will be below : Bye bye Xbox360. You were fun for a while.
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