If you’ve got a netbook, then you’re probably wishing you had a little more vertical room on your monitor. The default setup on GNOME includes two panels that take up valuable space at the top and bottom of your screen. Here’s a few tips to free up some space on your GNOME Desktop layout.
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Sometimes you just need a DOS boot disk. Many motherboard manufacturers and computer companies only provide DOS based BIOS update utilities. A further challenge is that many computers no longer have floppy disk drives. The solution is to create a bootable USB drive that boots to FreeDOS. The beauty of this method is that you …
Continue reading Create a Bootable USB Drive with Ubuntu and FreeDOSIf you’ve recently updated your Ubuntu installation to version 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope), then you’ve probably noticed that the update manager starts up automatically when there are updates available. The old behavior was to provide a notification icon in the system tray. If you prefer the new behavior, great. Leave things alone. If you would like …
Continue reading Revert the Update Behavior in Jaunty to the Old WayIf you use Google’s Picasa Web Albums to share photos online, Google now has a Linux version of the Picasa desktop client. There are three binary packages available for download: picasa-3.0-current.i386.rpm for Red Hat/Fedora/Suse/Mandriva i386 or x86_64 picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb for Debian/Ubuntu i386 picasa_3.0-current_amd64.deb for Debian/Ubuntu amd64 Download the appropriate file for your distribution. For Ubuntu, just …
Continue reading Install Picasa 3.0 for Linux (beta)Earlier today on PC World, Harry McCracken had a pair of articles titled “Eight Reasons Your Next Computer Should Be a PC” and “Eight Reasons Your Next Computer Should Be a Mac”. Well, since Harry didn’t complete the series, I’ll do it for him, so here we go.
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