Archive for 'Software'
25 Best Gimped images
Posted on July 13, 2008, by XIII, under Software.
GIMP is an amazing image editing software that allows people with limitless imagination create extraordinary images out of ordinary photos.
I’m all for Open Source programs, and use a lot of them for just about every aspect of my computing experience, whether that’s professional or in my spare time for my hobbies, but come on… if these are the best 25 pictures Gimp can come up with I’m going to stick with Photoshop…
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OS X: Snow Leopard
Posted on June 10, 2008, by XIII, under Apple.
There’s hope for them yet.
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Firefox 3
Posted on April 29, 2008, by XIII, under Software.
Firefox getting a bit sluggish for you? Try switching to beta 5 of Firefox 3.
It’s got a lot of new features, none of which I tried yet, but… and it’s a big but, it’s faster. No really faster, a lot faster. I keep dozens of tabs open all the time and all of a sudden switching between them is fast again, real snappy. And page refreshes feel a lot faster too. And it uses a lot less memory as well.
Edit:
- If you need Java support (like for our company’s ERP system), stay away from it.
- Need a working Del.icio.us plugin for Firefox 3? Get it here.
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Ubuntu countdown
Posted on April 21, 2008, by XIII, under Linux.
3 more days before Hardy Heron, aka 8.04 is released, and I’m looking forward to it. This is another LTS (long term support) release, meaning it’ll receive security updates for the next 5 years.
I’ll be tinkering with it on a spare pc to see if it’s got the goods to sway me away from the alternatives. I haven’t seen a conclusive list of everything new, but there are enough bits and pieces around the web to make me interested.
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Apple sues New York City
Posted on April 7, 2008, by XIII, under Apple.
over trademark infringement for the design of NY’s GreeNYC campaign logo. Me thinks Apple missed April fools day by a few days.
(hat tip)
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Ubuntu, Vista, XP, or?
Posted on March 27, 2008, by XIII, under Software.
What do you run on your main computer? And why? Seeing as mine is slowly crashing I’m trying to decide what to install on the ‘new’ one. XP is the safest best because it just works. My wife only needs Firefox and Photoshop, which run on any OS under the sun so she doesn’t really care. But I’m used to a lot of nifty little programs on windows for both recreational purposes and getting work done, and do I really want to invest time in finding equivalents for all of them in linux? Plus I use linux enough at work to know it’s not answer to all prayers as some advocates claim either. And then there’s Vista. I’ve always said I’d wait until SP1… so now it’s here. Is it any good? Why would I want it? Other than eyecandy that is. Which I can get on any os as well.
Ah, decisions decisions…
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Save Windows XP
Posted on February 8, 2008, by XIII, under Windows.
Vista sucks, but Windows XP is going to be discontinued as of June 30 2008.
Sign this petition to let Microsoft know we want XP to stick around.
Close to 80000 people have signed it already, but it’s going to need a lot more votes to convince the big M.
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Leopard Server
Posted on February 6, 2008, by XIII, under Apple.
Here’s a nice article about the server version of Apple’s Os X Leopard, which for some reason is horribly ignored in the media. Maybe it’s a fine example of what’s wrong with Apple, the fanboys are too busy jerking off over the latest iPhone widget or photos of what might be the latest iPod, instead of checking out what, in my opinion, is the most interesting thing Apple has to offer; a user friendly, virtually idiot proof UNIX server operating system that’s up and running in a few mouseclicks and is a dream (supposedly) to manage. And when I read this it sure does sound yummy. The best open source packages, integrated by Apple and managed with a luvly admin GUI instead of having to spend days in man pages editing conf files and getting scripts to talk to eachother. Anyone who ever tried manually assembling a proper ‘nix mail server knows what a pain in the ass that is. Not to mention what a time sink. So yay for Apple. More articles/reviews like this please!
