I need to get pictures of screens for reporting problems. I don't usually want to take the full screen or even a window - I want the smallest section that will show the problem. Using Ubuntu, I wasn't able to find anything that would do it as easily as I would …
Really liked this article. Linux Audio Players, Tested and Graded. I'm working my way through the Linux equivalents of Windows apps. I've used iTunes under Windows because it would talk easily to my iPod.
I tried Rhythmbox but it was out immediately. I want to keep my songs on a …
Do you use Google Reader? I've thought that other readers were better beause they're faster. I really like RSS Owl, which uses IE to display pages. It's based on Java and is cross-platform, usable on Macs, Windows and Linux. It uses one file to track what feeds you read.
Problem …
I really like to be able to click on links while reading an article but not have to deal with the links until I'm done. I've got enough ADD issues without tabs popping up. So I was very happy to find this reference to making tabs work better (for me …
One thing that was kind of exasperating about Ubuntu was the (weird( version numbers. The successor to 6.06 was 6.10? The next version was 7.04? Huh?
Fortunately, somebody finally blogged about this: What’s With the Ubuntu Version Number Scheme? -- Johnny’s Thoughts
No big secret: the …
We got an HDTV last year. After a few months of watching DVDs on it, I started wondering what HDTV was like. I tried getting an indoor HDTV antenna which didn't work so well. I started looking at DirecTV and Dish Network and upgrading to higher levels of cable with …
Was reading Deep Jive Interests about Dell’s Crowdsourcing More Than Hype: Tells Microsoft to “Suck It!”
I've spent some time the past 10 days or so putting Ubuntu 7.04 on 3 PCs, all of them dual-booting some flavor of Windows. Obviously there's a lot of interest in doing …
I love the way that Firefox and Thunderbird can be extended by extensions. But I've been somewhat concerned about the reliability and stability of Greasemonkey scripts. There were a couple of features that I wanted to try (more on that later) so I broke down and installed it on my …
I found Eric Sink's blog via some references from Joel Spolsky's blog. This is a nice post about the problems with whiz-bang technology.
This is an excellent write-up of why I don't think Blu-Ray or HD-DVD are going to matter. And some good insights in the comments, too. The Unwinnable War in high definition DVD
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