No Posts this Week, No Podcast this Weekend

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!

Get More Office Productivity Awesomeness with OxygenOffice

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 […]

Use Vim as a Note Taking Platform

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 […]

Quickly Navigate to Special Locations in Nautilus

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 […]

ProductiveLinux Podcast Episode 11 - Absolute Linux (MP3 Format)

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 […]