November 16th, 2008
Let’s participate in the Linux Graphics Survey 2008 which will run from November 15-December 15,2008. This is an attempt to help the developers get a better understanding of the video hardware we’re using and what’s relevant. It shouldn’t take such a long time to answer a short survey. :)
I was hoping for a more [...]
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November 16th, 2008
Audacious. Screenshot by Clair Ching, 2008.
The search for the perfect music player will always follow me. In any case I am currently running Audacious and for most of those who have been used to the old school WinAmp, the general look and feel of Audacious is similar to it.
In any case Audacious has some [...]
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November 16th, 2008
Someone asked me today if the emoticons on Pidgin were really static. He missed using the animated emoticons on Yahoo! Messenger. Apparently, there is a way for us to use the emoticons we see in our instant messaging protocol. It’s by getting a tarball of the collection of emoticons and selecting as [...]
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November 15th, 2008
In America, there’s a shopping event called Black Friday and I didn’t know about it until I came across the article “Why You’ll Buy a Netbook on Black Friday”. We don’t have Thanksgiving here so I can’t really relate with Black Fridays.
In any case, the article is interesting for me because it pointed out [...]
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November 12th, 2008
I was looking for an alternative to Tomboy which can allow formatting of tables but it led me to Gournal, Jarnal and Xournal.
Gournal is an application designed for use in a Tablet-PC. If you’re looking for an application that would allow you to treat your Tablet-PC like a regular notebook or if you’re looking [...]
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November 9th, 2008
Free Your Media has come up with a list of sites where you could get clipart for OpenOffice.org. They share with us the following sites:
Clker.com
openclipart.com
wpclipart.com
documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/User/gallery/
If you want other clipart images, well, you would have to agree with the terms of service of the source of the images you might like to consider. There [...]
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November 9th, 2008
The quest for an awesome music player happens every so often. I’ve gotten used to Rhythmbox but it has no equalizer =_= I’ve been frustrated with how my music sounds like and it has been tough considering that I prefer working while listening to music.
Exaile has come to my rescue!
Tabbed playlists in Exaile, [...]
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November 8th, 2008
I found a gem of an article for Ubuntu users. I know there has been several of that already but still, I haven’t really read them much. In any case someone compiled them again, and now we have 50 tips. Ubuntu might seem easier to use with each release but you can [...]
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November 8th, 2008
I am glad about how shiny it is XD It could be just the theme that I am noticing for now as well as the other user interface changes, but for me, it’s still a big thing.
For one, I love the shutdown option which is now part of the user menu on the panel. [...]
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November 5th, 2008
Sorry, guys. Comments are moderated and I have been having troubles moderating comments as Akismet is not totally effective so I still have to go through all those that are in moderation. You must have noticed that some of your comments are already appearing on the post but I have to double check because [...]
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