I’ve been hearing pretty good things all over the net lately about AndLinux, which seems to be Wine’s counterpart for the Windows desktop. Even though it’s not really a virtual machine, it allows you to run pretty much any Ubuntu app like it’s a native Windows program. I’m glad no one’s forcing me to use […]

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Konqueror remains one of the most powerful tools on the Linux desktop. It manages to be the Swiss Army knife of file managers for KDE as well as a fantastic web browser. Even as a GNOME user, I find myself firing up Konqueror every now and then. VnTutor as put […]

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Snippits is a text expander application, like Texter for Windows or TextExpander for Mac. In true Linux fashion, you’ll have to do a bit of command line work to get this in-development program installed, but the payoff is way worth it.

Snippits homepage
Snippits @ Lifehacker.com (my installation guide is differs only slightly…your mileage may vary […]

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Snippits is a text expander application, like Texter for Windows or TextExpander for Mac. In true Linux fashion, you’ll have to do a bit of command line work to get this in-development program installed, but the payoff is way worth it.

Snippits homepage
Snippits @ Lifehacker.com (my installation guide is differs only slightly…your mileage may vary […]

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OpenOffice makes exporting a PDF super easy. But what about all your other apps? Lucky for us, ArsGeek has a simple tutorial on their site for adding a PDF printer in GNOME.
It’s as simple as installing the cups-pdf package and going through the “add printer” process, so these instructions should apply easily to any […]

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