Daring Fireball posted a clever application called choosy, an intermediate browser between opening a page and your choice of browser.
You start off installing it like any other program. Then you set it as your system’s default browser (so there is no running process). Then you might click a link a document you downloaded and a [...]
My father often burns Live CDs of different versions of linux. He bought a new laptop the other day and he wanted to throw KUbuntu on it. We have an old copy of Nero 6 and a trial of Nero 9, but neither would work with Windows Vista. I set out to find a different [...]
I was going to try out Ubuntu 8.10 today but first I had to burn it with Nero 9. Since Nero’s designed changed so much from the previous version, I wasn’t sure where they put burn a disk image. I found it though.
When you open Nero 9, you’ll get a bunch of burning options across [...]
Keynote Sparkle Effect
In my computer technology class, we’re looking at the fancy features of Keynote this week. Keynote is similar to PowerPoint, it makes slide shows.
I’m well versed in both google doc slide shows and PowerPoint slide shows, at least until PP2007. The work flow in Keynote is similar to PowerPoint, but the variety of [...]