How to preview Ubuntu Unity Smart Scopes
If you’ve been following the upcoming release of Ubuntu 13.04, you probably know about the on-again, off-again inclusion of Unity Smart Scopes. As of now, Smart Scopes will not be …
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Best open source HRM and ERP solutions
It’s been often mentioned that enterprise-level companies have fully embraced open source. From the reliable, secure Linux operating system, to the unsurpassed LAMP platform, open source has quite a lot …
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Lightworks video editor: Another missing piece for Linux
Screenshot from Lightworks website It seems, lately, that Linux is starting to gain a ton of momentum on the desktop. Although the kick off for this seems to point to …
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KeyBox makes controlling your servers easier
These days, organizing as much as possible of your work (or that of your coworkers/friends/relatives…) to do on remote servers can be much more productive than sticking to desktop applications …
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Linux 101: File permissions from the GUI point of view
Last week I had one of those real eye-opening moments where it finally dawned on me just why Windows can be so insecure. File permissions. From the Windows OS perspective, …
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Tweak Ubuntu Unity: Get a dock-style launcher and Unity Dash
One of the biggest complaints I receive about Ubuntu Unity is that the Launcher is locked to the left side — with no way to move it. Up until Ubuntu …
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Benefits of using Tiny Tiny RSS
In my previous post I showed how to install Tiny Tiny RSS, a self-hosted alternative to Google Reader. As promised, here I am again to present some advanced, or less …
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Put vector graphics in your Web pages with Pygal
The most common formats for digital images, like Jpeg or PNG, represent them as matrices of pixels, all of the same size, orderly placed in rows and columns. Besides this …
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Phatch, the team-friendly photo processor
Phatch is an Open Source Python program running on Mac OS, Linux, and Windows. The name comes from the combination of Photo and Batch, because this is a processor of …
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Two things Canonical can do to heal the rift in the open source community
This past week, after my last Ubuntu Unity article I posted, I received a lot of email regarding Ubuntu’s default desktop. Some of the emails were filled with praise about …
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