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Archive for May 2010
Full Circle Magazine #37 is Available
Come and get Full Circle Magazine #37 Full Circle issue #37 is out with a review of Lubuntu (by yours truly in collaboration with reader/listener Dan), more programming in Python, talk about streaming media, and more. This month: Command and Conquer: SSH forwarding. How-To : Program in Python – Part 11, Adding Screenlets, and Streaming … Continue reading
How-to: Setup Google Analytics
“If you build it, they will come” (Field of Dreams) “How will I know?” (Robin Catling) Build a website or blog: yes you can include ‘follow’ and ‘friend connect’ buttons, but that only tells you who came and bothered to click once. You need continual traffic tracking, hard stats on every visitor, otherwise … Continue reading
Review: Simple Scan
Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 and all its derivatives now come ready-equipped with a useful little application called Simple Scan.Position it in your mind as F-Spot is to Gimp, so Simple Scan is to X-sane. This is the one-window, simplified scanning interface you’ve been waiting for. If you have even a moderately recent scanner this should work … Continue reading
Review: Ubuntu Netbook Launcher versus Unity
Watching Mark Shuttleworth’s keynote from UDS earlier, my interest was piqued by the new Unity interface due out with Ubuntu Light. This is the stripped-down, space-saving vertical application launcher intended to accompany Ubuntu Light, the fast-boot version of Ubuntu for OEM’s. Light is being promoted as an OEM pre-install, an instant-on, login-to-desktop in 7-seconds session … Continue reading
Facebook ‘Privacy’ Coerces Public Lemmings
I have only a token presence on Facebook. It wasn’t intentional, I wanted to create a Facebook wall for my sports club, but Facebook wanted info on me as an individual before I could create anything at all. I gave it as little as possible. Then got inundated by the kind of attention I normally … Continue reading
Full Circle Podcast #7: Two Tin Cans and a Length of String
Full Circle Podcast #7 is available! “In this Episode, our longest so far; UDS, Unity and a Humble Bundle.” News: Ubuntu Developers Summit, Ubuntu Light, Unity.Guest Spot: We go through the Ubuntu bug-reporting process with Alan Pope.Games: Ed, Dave and Alan are all agreed about the Humble Indie Bundle and Dave looks at Wormux.Interview: Part … Continue reading
Review – Linux Mint 9 Software Manager
Having touched on this in a previous review of Mint 9 ‘Isadora,’ the Mint Software Manager remains a step ahead of it’s counterpart in the other ‘Buntu distributions. Combining the previous Mint Software Manager with the GNOME App-Install and the new Ubuntu Software Centre, this must be one of, if not the best software installation … Continue reading
Review – Midori Web Browser
“Midori is a lightweight and portable web browser based on Gtk+. The interface is designed to be intuitive yet powerful.” I took up version 0.2.2 from the Lubuntu repositories, surprised at how fast it is, how light it is, and how good is the media/Flash support. It gets you away from Gecko engines (Mozilla, Firefox) … Continue reading
Review: Conky
Another ‘re-discovery’: I had forgotten, until I booted the PartEd Magic CD, an excellent little desktop utility for displaying system information, monitors, sensors – actually displaying anything on your desktop, not just system information.It is by far the best system monitor I’ve found, not just lightweight and fully customisable, but with a whole community of … Continue reading
Review: Linux Mint 9 ‘Isadora’
A clean install of Linux Mint Isadora on Compaq Evo I am something of a Linux Mint fan, as previous reviews of Mint 5 (‘Elyssa’) and Mint 7 (‘Gloria’) will show. It’s a good Linux distro for Windows migrants, thanks to the well-presented and well-described GUI utilities and Windows-like menus. The green-and-black livery evolves each … Continue reading
Lubuntu and Mint Double Upgrade
A while ago, the Compaq Evo got upgraded to 1Gb memory and a 120Gb disk. I don’t have all the music and virtual machines on it I used to, so there is enough space to use as a practical every-day machine and as a test bed for other distro’s. So here it is, a dual-boot, … Continue reading
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