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Archive for September 2008

September 28th, 2008

The month in review

It’s not exactly the end of the month yet but here’s a recap of some of the posts that I think are more or less.

I gave you a quick rundown of two bit torrent clients: Transmission and Deluge.
I also shared with you my experience with Dropbox.
I also wrote about tips on choosing your Linux distro […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

September 28th, 2008

Deluge for torrent downloads

image by Clair Ching, 2008
Already tried using Deluge last night. I was curious as to how it was because there were people like Benjamin and Karin who said she was liking Deluge. I’ve only used the one in the Ubuntu repositories not the latest one so I am not quite sure how different […]

By Clair -- 2 comments

September 28th, 2008

Interesting things this week

I heard about Deluge from the other people who have commented on this blog. If not for them I wouldn’t be able to find something that my sister will probably love to use on Linux. I’ve said Transmission is a nifty app. I still stand by it. But it doesn’t mean […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

September 24th, 2008

Get your “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers!

sitt.com.sg is giving away some “Powered by Ubuntu” stickers to people who send self-addressed stamped envelopes to them. These are where you could send your envelopes to:
SINGAPORE
Ubuntu Stickers
VBox 881781
SINGAPORE
AUSTRALIA
Ubuntu Stickers
Unit 2 117 Walpole St,
Bentley 6102
Western Australia
AUSTRALIA
SOUTH KOREA
302-502 Sungwon 3 Cha APT
Daebanddong Changwonsi
South Korea 641-761
It’s a cute and nifty little thing to state what […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

September 23rd, 2008

Transmission as a bit torrent client

I used to have gnome-btdownload as my torrent client. However useful it was, I envied my sister who was using uTorrent on Windows. I found its user interface better than the overly simple looking one used by gnome-btdownload.
Once you have a torrent file, you could already open it with Transmission. Then you […]

By Clair -- 6 comments

September 22nd, 2008

Geh, Chromium is so slow

I tried using Chromium and it’s just too slow…
The pain of using CrossOver Chromium doesn’t make me feel attracted towards it. Maybe we should all just wait for the versions of Linux. At least experiencing it recently makes me hope that the worth should be worth it.
I couldn’t even take screenshots for this […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

September 21st, 2008

What do you say to the idea of a contest here? :D

It seems that I might have something to give away to you readers of the New Linux User. :D I am not saying what it is yet though. I’d like to ask you how you feel about a contest here. Just for you readers, of course :D
And if ever, what kinds of […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

September 19th, 2008

Be a Linux ambassador!

I was reading “Why GNU/Linux needs slick marketing” and it pointed out the need for slick marketing. It mentioned that slick marketing still has its benefits for Linux. And I was thinking that in our own way, word of mouth marketing for Linux is still good and that we can do it well.
Maybe […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

September 17th, 2008

Win a Sansa Fuze from Sandisk!

The contest is on Lia Espina’s Gadgenista blog. She’s giving away an awesome Sansa Fuze from Sandisk. I read her review of the Sansa Fuze and I think that it seems like an awesome media player.
I like the fact that it acts as an external storage device so chances are, us Linux users […]

By Clair -- 0 comments

September 17th, 2008

Sync and share files via Dropbox

Dropbox!
I skimmed through my RSS feeds yesterday and saw news about Dropbox and my boyfriend also showed it to me so I thought why not give it a try? After all, it’s a convenient app for people who work on multiple computers and still want to make sure that their files are intact and it […]

By Clair -- 2 comments