I just found about a pretty useful little utility from the Daily Ubuntu called Desktop Drapes. This app automatically switches your desktop background when you’re in GNOME. When I’m in the mood for procrastination, one of the things I tend to do is fiddle with my theme and/or desktop background. So, if you’re like me, [...]
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Do you have more than one user account on your Ubuntu Linux desktop? Have you noticed that Flash doesn’t work on your non-administrator account? Well, I did. My main account (and root account) worked fine, but in my wife’s user account, Flash just didn’t work, even though it was installed. I removed the package, reinstalled, [...]
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I’ve been reading a lot about the “document processor” LyX. The idea is that you use pre-defined styles for your document, and so you never have to mess with font size, margins, etc. Basically, it’s an intuitive and smart template system. And since it uses LaTeX for it’s rendering, the output is fantastic.
Seems [...]
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BitNami.Org is currently offering several notoriously difficult-to-install open source applications in supposedly easy-to-install packages. This looks pretty cool, and it seems like the offered apps are continually expanding. Some of the more popular ones:
Wordpress
MediaWiki
Drupal
phpBB
This would have come in really handy for me a while back when I was trying to do a local WP install. [...]
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Are you wanting to learn longtime geek favorite text editor Vim, but maybe you’ve having some trouble wrapping your head around all the keyboard commands? Sweeten the deal with Cream, a set of scripts that modernizes gVim, the GTK 2.0 Vim adaptation. Basically it just changes some shortcuts so they’re more like what you would [...]
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