Here’s quick rundown of some of my favorite features in Zim Wiki, the desktop wiki software designed for personal notetaking.
I used gtk-recordMyDesktop to make the screencast, and uploaded the Ogg video straight YouTube. Thanks YouTube for supporting Ogg!

AppRunner is a cool little Nautilus script that adds a “run this app” item to your right-click menu. Very handy for running quick-and-dirty homebrew scripts or downloaded apps without messing with the permissions. It’s small thing, but it’s useful! You can also easily start apps as root with this script.\
Looks like it works wherever Nautilus [...]

I came across a pretty interesting article the other day advertising Ten Expert Ubuntu Tricks. Turns out they’re really great tips for Linux and GNOME specifically. None of them are really Ubuntu specific. My favorite tip of the bunch:
7. Launch OpenOffice.org Faster
If you use OpenOffice.org a lot, you might be frustrated at how long it [...]

I’ve been using Epiphany a lot lately, and one of the main issues I’ve experienced has been using the Amazon Mp3 Downloader application. Unfortunately, there’s no built-in setting to tell Epiphany how to handle the AMZ file format, so you’re forced to download the file and then open it manually in the Amazon MP3 Downloader. [...]

The install experience for Ubuntu Jaunty was an absolute nightmare, but it turns out all the hassle was–in large part–worth it.  After over a week of living with the latest release from the Ubuntu team, I’m ready to give my full review of Ubuntu 9.04 “The Jaunty Jackalope.”
The very first thing I noticed was that [...]