The iPod shuffle is a great little device but unfortunately it is buit to work with iTunes and comes with an almost undecipherable file system and database. Apple’s motives are clear here, buy a Mac and use iTunes. Fortunately for us you can save your money as there are a variety of ways to sync [...]
Canonical has released its latest version of Ubuntu today. Under the hood 11.04 Natty has made many controversial changes, first and foremost the addition of Unity which replaces the standard GNOME desktop. The new desktop was originally designed for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition but has now made its way to the standard version. Beyond the [...]
According to the YouTube official blog post. All new videos uploaded to YouTube are now transcoded into WebM. To put that in perspective, nearly 6 years of video is uploaded to YouTube every day. So far they have already transcoded videos that make up 99% of views on their site or nearly 30% of all [...]
If you have been using GNOME 3 and the GNOME Shell desktop then you will undoubtedly find this cheat sheet handy. Finding your way around the desktop without the help of a task bar can be tricky at first. While it is possible to use the mouse for each of these actions, GNOME Shell is [...]
Who couldn’t see this one coming. Since the acquisition of Sun by Oracle many people have been critical of Oracle’s handling of its newly acquired open source portfolio. In response to the the takeover OpenOffice project leaders and many contributers jumped ship and created a fork called LibreOffice under the umbrella of a European based [...]
April 6th is finally here and those of us who have been keeping track of GNOME 3 development, you know that means the release of GNOME 3 desktop featuring Gnome Shell. GNOME 3 and Gnome Shell are a dramatic shift from what users have come to expect from GNOME 2. From the press release: Today, [...]
Having the ability to hide the node title would seem like a feature that would be included in Drupal by default, unfortunately this is not the case. There have been a variety of suggestions on how to accomplish this task from creating a custom view to hacking the code on page.tpl.php itself. By far the [...]
In contrast to GNOME 3′s Gnome Shell, Unity is Ubuntu’s take on the next generation of the desktop. In a previous article I went into detail on to install Gnome Shell in Ubuntu 10.10, now its time to do the same for Unity. There are a couple options to try unity on 10.10. The somewhat [...]
If you are using GNOME Shell with the latest Gnome 3 you may be wondering why you cannot Alt+Tab through your running applications. This is especially important since the panel and task bar no longer exists, making switching between applications especially difficult. To enable task switching with Alt+Tab you must configure metacity to support this [...]
The release of GNOME Shell and GNOME 3 is fast approaching. Unfortunately for many the latest build is nearly unusable due to the slow animation speed and lack of mouse responsiveness. If you have an NVIDIA graphics card you may be in luck as the fix is fairly simple. You need to change to the [...]
