TECH BLOG
WHAT WE LOSE DUE TO ADVANCING TECHNOLOGY
For the last half century, we’ve experienced incredible leaps in technology. Thing that were a fantasy of science fiction just a generation ago are now commonplace items. Electronic storage allows us to store thousands of ebooks on a tiny micro-SD card. Movies...
THOUGHTS ON UBUNTU 14.10
Late October signals the .10 release of Ubuntu and its official derivatives, and this year is no exception. So for the past few weeks (yeah, I grabbed the pre-release candidates to get a jump on testing), I’ve been putting the various Ubuntu distributions through the...
GEARY EMAIL REVIEW
I’ve used email since the early 90’s, back in the days when Netscape Navigator reigned supreme. Things are a lot different today than back then. The Internet is fast, we get lots of email, and most of us access our email from multiple devices. For...
RESTORING LIFE TO AN OLD LAPTOP
Have you seen the price of laptops lately? I don’t mean the cheaply made, nearly all plastic models that manufactures sell as their budget models. Yeah, I’m talking the ruggedly-built, metallic-cased, durable notebooks that are usually marketed as...THE DEATH OF WINDOWS XP AND MOVING TO LINUX
April 8th, 2014. In addition to being my birthday, this is another historic day….Microsoft support for Windows XP comes to an end. For years, Microsoft tried to upgrade XP users, ever since the ill-fated release of Vista. When Seven came along, they tried to...A RETURN TO UBUNTU…SORT OF
You may have read my previous posts Three weeks of running Manjaro Arch and Moving from Ubuntu to Arch Linux. In each post, I talked about my move from Ubuntu to an Arch-based Linux distribution. Part of the move was philosophical, as I have major issues with the...LIBREOFFICE 4.2 REVIEW
If you follow my blog, you know that I am a big fan of the Scrivener writing software. As great as that program is, authors need another word processing program. Most writers use MS Word. But what if you’re on a budget, or just don’t like Microsoft...KINDLE FOR LINUX: HOW TO READ KINDLE BOOKS ON A LINUX SYSTEM
Do you own a kindle? For better or for worse, the most downloaded eBooks are kindle books. And let’s face it, Amazon has made it pretty attractive for both readers and writers to use the kindle format…tons of free books, a nicely laid out e-store,...Three weeks of Running Manjaro Arch
It has been just over three weeks since I switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro, and I thought I would give everyone an update as to my impressions of the OS. (If you haven’t read Moving from Ubuntu to Arch Linux, be sure to check out that post.) To bring...MOVING FROM UBUNTU TO ARCH LINUX
I am a long time Linux computer user. Over the past few years, I have used just about every distribution in the Ubuntu-based Linux line. Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Mint, Ultimate Edition… I think I’ve tried them all. And while my tastes have changed over the years, I...
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