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Category Archives: Desktop
Adobe AIR on 64 bit Ubuntu: install easily at last!
Consider this an extra Christmas present, at least I considered it as such Back in this post I discussed various issues with 64-bit Ubuntu systems after an upgrade. And now 15 months later I upgraded a laptop that had been … Continue reading
Get Flash working on Ubuntu 64-bit
If you use Ubuntu, and you happen to like to visit more than a handful of webpages, you might have encountered an issue or two with Flash. If you aren’t sure if Flash is working properly on your machine, check … Continue reading
Excel web query URLs with dynamic parameters
Last year I wrote about the ease and utility of pulling data into Excel via web queries. This mechanism has served me well in the interim and has proven to be an effective tool in collecting data for certain kinds … Continue reading
Osmos: beautiful, relaxing, and cross-platform ambient game
I came across a game called Osmos by Hemisphere Games from this story posted on Slashdot. Their experience of porting the game Osmos to Linux and the sales they had witnessed thereafter was what interested me initially. They had found … Continue reading
Skip the distractions: Focus on web page content with Readability
Often when trying to catch up on the news or just researching something online, I come across article pages filled with distractions. Ads before the article, ads around the article, ads below the article, ads in the article, obscene sidebars … Continue reading







