Ubuntu 12.04 (code name Precise Pangolin) is the latest version of the OS. I installed it on my laptop this morning. I haven’t been using it long enough so I really don’t know about its bugs yet. So far I haven’t found any. What I can tell you is that it’s very fast. Read More→
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LibreOffice is a new free office suite that is much like OpenOffice because it is from the same code-base as OpenOffice 3.3. LibreOffice was started after fears of the possible sale of Sun Microsystems to Oracle Corperation. Sun being the sponsor of OpenOffice. OpenOffice is still available but who knows for how long.
A few weeks ago I told you I loved the Google Chrome browser. I’ve been testing the Firefox 4 Beta and I’m really happy with it. It’s clean, fast and packed with some great features. Read More→
The new Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is by far the best Ubuntu ever. I installed it on several computer. The installs have been flawless. Every easy! It is much more difficult to install Windows. Read More→
The Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is out. You can download it now.
recordMyDesktop is a opensource desktop session recorder. It records everything you do on your desktop. It is very simple to use, much easier than Jing for Windows and Mac. Basically you select the region of the screen that you want to record and press record. When you finished recording press stop and wait for it to finish processing the video. That it! It’s that easy.
There are several programs that may start up when your Ubuntu computer starts. Many of these programs are not needed. You can turn these off by going to “System, Preferences and Startup Applications”. You can turn off some of these but first you must know which applications do not have to start up so I made a list.
- AT SPI Registry Wrapper – The Gnome a11y infrastructure allows end user assistive technology (AT) programs such as screen readers to get rich information about an application’s UI state. In most cases it’s OK to disable it.
- Bluetooth Manager – If your computer does not have Bluethooth or you don’t use it it is OK to turn it off.
- Check for new hardware drivers – keep this enabled
- Disk Notifications – keep this enabled Read More→
I love the Firefox web-browser. One of things I like the most about Firefox are the extentions.
Here are some of our favorites:
- FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
- 1-Click YouTube Video Download – Download YouTube in a single click. Download YouTube videos in FLV and MP4 (both High Definition and iPod compatible High-Quality)
- Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service (formerly del.icio.us). It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.
- Gmail Notifier – The original notifier for Gmail. Supports checking multiple accounts as well as Gmail Hosted accounts.
- LastPass Password Manager – Lastpass is a great password manager LastPass Password Manager is a terrific companion to this service.
- Omnibar – Integrates location bar and search bar into one. Shows search and url suggestions. Quickly switch search engine using search keywords. Provides different auto-complete popup styles for compact displays.
I’ve been using “Powerquest Partition Magic” (a non-distructive partitioning program) for sometime now. Here is a great free and opensource tool that replaces P-Magic. Gparted is a non-destructive that pretty much has the look and feel of P-Magic. The only difference I see is P-Magic runs in DOS and Gparted runs on a Linux GIU. Both good programs but Gparted is free!!!
