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
Story from the Washington Times. It pins some of Microsoft’s recent financial trouble on Linux.
Here’s a neat little trick you can do with an Ubuntu Live CD.
Cross-posted at Wide Scope
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
So you want to try out Ubuntu and see if it’s the right fit for you, but you don’t want to make 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 [...]