Archive for the 'Linux' Category

Linux Whiteboard with Wii Remote

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Linux Whiteboard is an application that let’s you turn any surface into an interactive touch screen. The most obvious application is that any surface can be turned into a Whiteboard!
Here’s a link to the packages for ubuntu
Here are a couple of demo videos

Competitors Soften Microsoft’s Roar

Sunday, April 26th, 2009

Story from the Washington Times. It pins some of Microsoft’s recent financial trouble on Linux.

Cure Windows Virus with Ubuntu Live CD

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Here’s a neat little trick you can do with an Ubuntu Live CD.

Cross-posted at Wide Scope

Comment Bubbles in Open Office 3.0

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Open Office 3.0 has those spiffy comment bubbles that you may be accustomed to in MS Word. However, they appear outside of the margins in your screen (rather than inside the margins in MS Word).
This is all fine and good if you’re collaborating completely online, but if you wanted to print the paper with the [...]

Free Cloud Computing is Here!

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

There’s a service called iCloud that offers you 3GB of free cloud computing space! It’s a bit limited, but - hey - it’s free. I haven’t played around with it yet. I’m about to go do that now.

Skype and Ubuntu 9.04

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

I’ve been running the release candidate of Ubuntu 9.04 - So far everything works great. The only issue I’ve run into is that Skype seemed to stop working.
The issue is easily fixed by changing some of the audio settings. Ubuntu 9.04 uses pulse audio, and you need to let Skype know that you want it [...]

Try Ubuntu Without Changes to Your Computer

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

So you want to try out Ubuntu and see if it’s the right fit for you, but you don’t want to makeĀ  drastic changes. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to do this. You can get a taste for Ubuntu before you cut any cords.
This makes good practical sense. Most problems with Ubuntu come [...]