One of the big impediments to casual use of Linux are the lack of entertainment options. Popular games and watching Netflix is the other.
Today I got Netflix working on my laptop with Linux Mint 14 but it works with Linux Mint and Ubuntu. Here’s how! Read More→
Yes there is a free video editor. Lightworks beta is not just free but it is full featured. It has been used on such films as the Oscar-winning film The King’s Speech and the critically acclaimed Hanna. Read More→
This weekend I tried Teamviewer a free remote access program. There are other remote access programs and some even work better than Teamviewer but the two best things about Teamviewer is it works cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux and many mobile devices) and Teamviewer is free. Like all remote access, controlling the remote computer is a little slow. Read More→
Yesterday I downloaded Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal and I installed it on my desktop first. I did not have any time to play with it because I had to go to work. Today I installed it on my laptop. The install is very easy. You might say effortless. Read More→
I’ve been using Firefox 4 for about a week and I have found it to be fast and reliable not unlike Google’s Chrome browser. What I’ve found is that the plugins for Firefox are much better. I’m not sure what the problem is but Google needs to work very hard with app developers Read More→
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.
