Posted on April 28th, 2008 by nathan
Hi everyone! I’m so sorry, but I won’t be posting anything this week due to a family emergency that will be taking me out of state for the remainder of this week.
Hopefully I’ll be able to resume posting next week. See you then!
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by nathan
I came across an article from the Linux and Lipgloss blog not long ago covering a project called OxygenOffice Professional. Apparently, this used to be a commercial project called OpenOffice Premium, but now it’s free! Basically, it’s just our beloved OpenOffice.org with a bunch of extra templates, fonts, clipart, and the like. Sounds like a […]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by nathan
As soon as I saw this video, possibilities began to run through my mind. This past semester, I’ve taken all my notes in TiddlyWiki, which has served me well. I know I won’t be abandoning the platform for all purposes, but I wonder how effective taking notes for my classes in Vim could be. Especially […]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by nathan
Did you know that Nautilus, the GNOME file manager, accepts special URI’s as pointers to locations like your network, CD burn cue, and windows shares? I probably use the CD burn one the most. Just enter burn:/// in your location bar, and you’re all set! A couple more useful ones are trash:/// and system-settings:///.
For the […]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by nathan
In this week’s podcast, we review Absolute Linux, a really cool project that may need to change few things to become a real productivity help. Plus, we talk about the solution to crazy file system problem in Ubuntu, and we discuss many reasons why Gedit and Vim are both awesome editors…how to combine the two?
Absolute […]
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