Aug 19, 2009 10:23pm GMT
AutoKey reminds me of OpenOffice.org Writer's AutoText feature. With AutoText, you can save often-used text or images and assign them a keyboard shortcut to paste them at the mouse cursor. AutoKey is a similar feature, except that it can be used anywhere on your GNOME or KDE desktop. You can use it like AutoText in open applications, or to run Python scripts on the desktop. AutoKey is availa... more »
Google Chrome for GNU/Linux remains a work in progressAug 07, 2009 10:35pm GMT
Eleven months ago, Google Chrome was announced as the browser that would revolutionize the Internet. Since then, everybody has learned that the browser is only part of a new operating system, and watched impatiently while the new browser has failed to mature as quickly as anyone would like. The result is that, while the first packaged developer build for GNU/Linux (specifically, for Ubuntu an... more »
Red Hat's POSSE introduces academics to FOSSJul 29, 2009 1:43am GMT
Last week, five college professors spent an intense five days with Red Hat employees and other members of the free and open source software (FOSS) community. Red Hat called the experience POSSE (Professors' Open Source Summer Experience). The goal of the week was to show how FOSS could be used in post-secondary education, and to create a community to further the goal. Greg DeKoenigsberg, Sen... more »
Using a Sansa Clip music player under GNU/LinuxJul 25, 2009 4:11am GMT
Having arrived in middle-age far too starry-eyed for my own good, I always go to some lengths to find hardware or software compatible with GNU/Linux. My search for a portable music player was no exception. Eventually, I found what I wanted in a Sans Clip 4 gigabyte player, but at times I wondered if the manufacturer was trying to hide the compatibility. My demands were simple. I wanted a pla... more »
Looking back on ten years of GNU/LinuxJul 16, 2009 1:51am GMT
Last week, I suddenly realized that I had been using GNU/Linux for ten years. Both the operating system and I have seen some changes since then -- largely for the better, but one or two for the worse. The exact date was July 5, 1999. That was the day I started work at Stormix Technologies, a pie-in-the-sky Dot-com company that had so little chance of ever being profitable that sometimes wond... more »
The free desktop leads in innovationJul 10, 2009 10:31pm GMT
The first time I booted GNU/Linux over a decade ago, the desktops were adequate, but lacking the tools and features found in Windows. As the lacking tools and features were slowly added, pundits kept predicting "The Year of the Linux Desktop" with such regularity that the phrase is now a joke. The result is that we've become so used to the idea that the free desktop needed to catch u... more »
My hunches about Hunch.comJun 30, 2009 1:28am GMT
Hunch.com is one of the few tech launches I've seen this year. It isn't free software, but it is very Web 2.0, full of opportunities for you to contribute and to edit details on the site, so I suspect that the site will have plenty of people from the free sotware community dropping by for its novelty value. However, whether Hunch can retain those visitors or thrive as a business is another mat... more »
