Google May Challenge Microsoft Monopoly
… by creating an operating system based on their Chrome browser, which would be great for all of us, I think. Details here (MSNBC.com).
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Mac vs PC vs Linux
Fun YouTube Video (HT: Greg Laden): Except for the word “choise,” but I guess I’ll forgive that.
Upgrading Audacity to 1.3.5
I have encountered serious difficulties with sound and sound editing on my Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) machine. I’ve blogged about it before, and how I kept using Audacity on my Gutsy machine and even did some editing under Windows to produce my podcast. I’ve had moments with the Hardy machine, but it was hard to extend…
A Tale of Unbelievable Stupidity
A middle school teacher in Austin, Texas confiscated Linux disks from a student, because, she told him, it was not possible that Linux was free and what he was doing was illegal. Storis on blog of Helios and nixCraft.
Creative Cloud with Photoshop and Lightroom
While I absolutely have to have the full creative suite for my publishing work, this offer for just Photoshop and Lightroom (plus minor goodies) should be of interest to photographs and artists who just use Photoshop. (HT: Digital Photography Review) I’m planning to write up some notes on working with the Creative Suite, especially Photoshop…
Netbeans 6.5 Released
You can read about it here or just go and download it here. Netbeans has become my editor of choice for working with PHP. At first I found it a bit clumsy due to the many things I was not used to having. But over time I have found it very helpful in preventing those…
Create favicon.ico with GIMP
This link is very helpful.