If you are a Ubuntu fan, you know the change is coming. As of Ubuntu 11.04, the default media player will migrate from Rhythmbox to Banshee. When I first read this announcement, I have to admit I was a bit disappointed. I was a fan of last.fm and knew, in order to stream last.fm in Banshee [...]

Categories: Linux, Music and Video, Music Industry, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

If you are an electrical engineer, or someone who likes to dabble in designing electrical circuit boards (or anything with regards to electricity) and you’re looking for a FOSS (Free, Open Source Software) CAD program to aid you in the process, then Electric might be the solution. Although it doesn’t have the most modern looking [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Open Source, Science, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

With my on-going search for making my life ever-easier, I have turned to using smaller applications to keep my readers and fans informed. This can get to be an overwhelming problem when you are tweeting, facebooking, blogging, and – oh yeah – writing. So instead of adding to my already-large collection of tabs in Chromium [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

As a writer of ebooks I have to constantly be promoting my works. There are three main ways to do this for free: Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. Of the three, Tumblr allows me to be the most flexible in what I post as well as allows more people to see what I’m posting. But I [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

We could all use some handy tips now and then. Wouldn’t it be great if they were, quite literally, at our fingertips? If you are a Ubuntu user, those tips can be at your finger tips with the help of a handy tip applet. This applet works in conjunction with the Fortunes application and serves [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Recently I have had to do some video tutorials. I tried recording these tutorials with Ubuntu’s default Cheese Webcam Booth, but unfortunately the combination of my Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, Ubuntu 10.10, and Cheese didn’t want to record video in any usable FPS. So I had to look elsewhere. My search turned me to GUVCView [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

If you’ve followed me long enough, you know I have a soft spot for the Enlightenment desktop. I have gone to all lengths to make sure my distribution of choice has either E16 or E17 installed for those days when I just need a little enlightenment. Those days are many. Fortunately there are plenty of [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software

If you have been following my latest series on the OpenShot Video Editor (Read “Create videos with OpenShot Video Editor“, “Add transitions with OpenShot Video Editor“, and “Add titles to OpenShot Video Editor projects“) then you will have noticed my mention of a bug in animated title feature that plagues Ubuntu. This bug is caused [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Recently I began covering one of the best open source video editors available (see my articles “Create videos with OpenShot Video Editor” and “Add transitions with OpenShot Video Editor“.) From those two articles (and an ounce of creativity) you should already be creating outstanding videos for various purposes. But now it’s time we take it [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic