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I called Microsoft today, and chatted to one of their callcenter staff. I love chatting with their staff, they are bright individuals and they always help me quickly and effectively.
That said – I needed to download something from their site today, and the lady on the phone was walking me through the site to get me to the download page. continue reading…
I have a pet peeve – compatibility. I hate when a computer user cannot work together with others in a workgroup because his/her hardware or software is incompatible with the others.
Now this is one of the first questions people ask me whenever Linux pops into the conversation: “Does it work with WIndows? Is it compatible? Can you open documents sent by Windows users?”
Yes, yes and yes. There is however a flipside – when Windows computers do not work together with Windows computers.
So I hit on a cool little applet that will feature quite a bit in my posts these next few weeks: byzanz.
It allows the user to record their desktop and save it to an animated giff file. I decided to use this applet to give you guys a quick weekly tour of the Ubuntu desktop, so here goes:
I enjoy a lot of things. Desktop widgets generally aren’t among them. Why? I use screens with square aspect ratio’s most of the time and I like my windows to be fullscreen most of the time, so a maximised browser (where I spend most of my work-day) leaves nothing around the edges for applets that usually run in my panels in any case.
Enter screenlets – and a new appreciation for desktop widgets have been awoken in me.
I came across this while reading the Gnome 2.22 release notes. Apparently Gnome has some compositing effects included all on its own, with no need for Compiz-Fusion!
Now the effects are not as flashy or pretty as those you can get with Compiz-Fusion or Beryl, but it adds some pizazz to your desktop nonetheless.
Now this is one of the coolest desktop gadgets I have been introduced to. One of my colleagues showed me this, and helped me install it. It is a cool little program that utilises bluetooth technology to secure your laptop when you are away from your desk. Boss call you into his office for a quick chat? No problem – your work is safe while you pop into his office – and when you get back you automatically log in and continue working.
I am talking about BlueProximity – a utility that uses your Cellphone’s bluetooth and a few calculations based on signal strength to manage when your desktop gets locked.
Desktop Ready is a bit of a misnomer – a standard that operating systems are measured against in order to fulfill a requirement that no-one has taken the time to spell out definitively. This causes a major problem, from where I stand – and leads me to ask the following questions:
These two questions, and a few remarks and observations – has lead me to believe there is not one single desktop-ready operating system available today if they are judged by the loose set of criteria we apply to this category. Here’s why I say so: continue reading…
So Ubuntu comes with the human theme. Brown everything. Want to change all that? Yet again I will bring you a how-to giving instructions to change your themes and customize them – and all this without touching the command line. Ubuntu is desktop ready, after all.
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