Category Archives: Desktop

Applications and settings related to Linux desktops

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

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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

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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

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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

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Quick tips for NVIDIA and ATI graphics configuration repairs on Ubuntu

While graphics card and display configuration on Ubuntu has come a long way from the days of always having to edit xorg.conf by hand, I still run into issues now and again. I almost never have problems any more when … Continue reading

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