If you’ve been looking for a nice WebKit based web browser for Linux, Midori is a browser worth checking out. Although it’s still in early stages of development (the current version is 0.2.5,) it provides a fairly complete set of features for a web browser.
Some of the more advanced features include user scripts and user styles. User scripts are similar to Greasemonkey scripts in Firefox. Continue reading
I was watching “The Big Bang Theory” on TV tonight. The show closed tonight with Sheldon sitting on the couch with his Dell XPS Alienware m15x laptop and sighing to himself, “Oh Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux based operating system.” Continue reading
It seems like I’m always losing track of some small sheet of paper with a recipe from my Mom written on it. An old fashioned box of recipe cards just doesn’t suit my style, so I thought about creating a database using OpenOffice.org’s Base. Being short on time and motivation, I decided to look for a specialized application to manage recipes. Continue reading
If you’re a terminal junkie, then you may find yourself wanting to open a terminal window sometimes when you’re browsing the file system in your file manager. If you use the Nautilus file manager, it’s easy to add a button to the context menu to open a terminal window in the current directory. Continue reading
If you’re developing websites, it’s nice to be able to test your code in the privacy of your own computer rather that out in the public internet. In order to do that, you’ll need to install a web server on your development computer. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) is one of the most common web hosting platforms, so it’s a perfect environment for you to build and test your website code. If you carefully follow these step by step instructions, you’ll have your own Ubuntu LAMP web server on installed, configured, and running in no time. Continue reading