I’m eagerly awaiting my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn CD in the mail already. Just ordered from the wonderful ShipIt, which sends them out for free….gotta love it.
I also have my home directory on a separate partition for easy future re-installations or upgrades like the one I’m about to do. (yes!!!! no need to worry about […]

      in Ubuntu Dapper using Conky, my new favorite Ubuntu app. Along with todo.txt and remind, it has successfully allowed me to scrap Rainlendar2 and its non-existent r2skin skins (see here) for a much more customizable and robust system of organizing my life. Below is a snapshot of my desktop with computer info […]

I thought it was built-in only for Evolution, you know, that mini-calendar that opens up when you click on the time/date in Gnome’s panel. Well, it is actually possible to have it open (read only, though) another calendar, as long as it’s web-based. [note: there are some other possibilities, but I don’t understand […]

     I like my apps tiny yet robust. Feature-rich but without the baggage. Less bloat, extra strength. I say no to CPU hogs, yes to “pound-for-pound” best fighters, like Bruce Lee. If they can run on my desktop background without affecting anything else, that’s the ideal for me…I don’t have to waste […]

The other day I must have downloaded a faulty video, because no matter what I tried, I couldn’t get it to play. I thought I needed to install video codecs, which of course turned out to be unnecessary, but now that I went through the process, I thought there may be others trying to […]

Have you ever wondered what this was? Or have you ever tried downloading something through a program, but no matter how you fiddled with your firewall, you couldn’t seem to get through? Sometimes your ISP or your own router can be stopping you, since they’re set up to shut out harmful ‘traffic.’
Well, through […]

of best free software.
I’ve been searching for good free software for a while, mostly for Windows, but since I switched to Linux, for that too. Some of these links are starting points (websites with great info to sift through), others are plain lists. In no particular order:

lifehacker - one of my favorite places […]

You can officially download the new beta Photoshop CS3 now from Adobe’s website right here. With a CS2 serial number, you can get a working CS3 serial number to activate the product. Without one, you have only a 2-day (yes, you heard me) trial.
Lightbox, on the other hand, is another new beta Adobe […]

Recently I decided to upgrade my computer’s RAM. I have a Dell Inspiron 600m. I decided to be cheap (a bad idea), and look on ebay. I found a couple sellers with RAM guaranteed to work on my laptop, so I picked the cheapest one: 2 1/2gig modules for under $80. […]

No need for an extra program! (but if you really want a full-fledged program, try gFTP)
For small ftp needs, you can just open your Nautilus (regular file browser, under Apps –> Accessories), and follow this simple guide from about.com:
In the Location Bar, enter the following:
For SSH, use: ssh://username@ssh.server.com
For FTP, use: […]