Just a quick note for those who saw my previous post, I’m not using Ubuntu 10.10 on my own machine and on one machine loaned to a client’s office, and I have had no difficulties with it at all. I’m pleased with the way the audio functions in particular. So if it seems useful to…
Linux Magazine has a review of the differences and suggests that in certain cases, such as if you have a NetBook, you shouldn’t upgrade yet, but just wait for the next release. I intend to upgrade my own system in a few days because I want the PulseAudio upgrade, but this review sounds like wisdom.
Bill Detwiler at TechRepublic takes a look at the Zotac ZBOX Mini-PC. I’m not linking to this because I like this particular item over all other possibilities, but I think it’s about time we start seeing smaller PCs that take up much less space. In many of the offices I work with problems with finding…
In using OpenOffice Writer for preliminary work on manuscripts I often need to replace large amounts of formatting, mainly eliminating areas in which writers have used character formatting and replacing them with consistent use of styles. The native search/replace is not very good for this. There is an excellent solution, readily available: The AltSearch addon. …
According to Gizmag, there is one! I have a hard enough time holding one in my hand and getting any useful video!
I installed Slideshow Gallery on the Energion Blogs site, and ran into a problem. Unfortunately I used “Network Activate” (which was not what I wanted to do), rather than just activating it for a single site. The result apparently tries to get user privileges before the appropriate includes are loaded. The solution, however, is simple–don’t…
The Atahualpa theme for WordPress is now up to version 3.5.3 which supports the new 3.0+ menus. Thus far I’m not getting the suggestion to upgrade automatically, but I downloaded it from the site. I’m only using it on one site at this point because of some bugs, but it appears that this new version…
It’s easy to change the position of footnotes and treat them as endnotes using the dialog at Tools->Footnotes/Endnotes, but if they are endnotes, it’s a bit more difficult. There are a couple of options given on the OpenOffice forum. I had a document with over 800 endnotes that I wanted as footnotes. I chose the…
My Palm Pixi is installing it right now. It appears to be just minor fixes. Details here.
I had this in the back of my mind, but a user question brought it to the front. There are now stats available on the Blogger platform. If you have a Blogger/Blogspot blog, just go to your dashboard and you’ll find the link. I’m a WordPress fan myself, as you can see from this blog,…
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