In this episode, we review desktop note-taking and task managment software Zim Wiki. It’s a nice app, and despite a just a few issues, it might become my primary note-taking application.

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In this episode, we review desktop note-taking and task managment software Zim Wiki. It’s a nice app, and despite a just a few issues, it might become my primary note-taking application.

Zim Wiki Homepage

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Mark Shuttleworth, founder and principal financier of Ubuntu Linux and its parent company, Canonical, has been talking about desktop notifications and how they should work Ubuntu. His vision is an unobtrusive, elegant, and user-friendly system that will let you know when you get a new email, enter a new wi-fi area, etc., and then provide [...]

I love me some Conky–that super versatile, text-based system monitor that can be extended to display just about any information you want, right on your desktop. I came across this screenshot from a featured desktop at Lifehacker, and man, I just love it. Clean, useful, and very pleasing to eye.
The contributor Conky setup uses several [...]

This is a great video from LinuxJournal, detailing how to easily create bootable usb drives for virtually any Linux  distro…all with an easy-to-use gui.
I’ve personally used UNetbootin several times to create bootable Live USB sticks for my favorite distros, like Puppy Linux, Ubuntu, and Eeebuntu. It’s really a great app that has saved me many [...]