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Ubuntu-BR @ FISL 11
about 1 week ago - No comments
I should have written it before… But, finally I will write about what we did as Ubuntu-BR at FISL 11 (Free Software International Forum) in July, 2010. FISL 11 was very good, altough some technical issues. The picture below was taken at the first day, when the stands’ area was closed, yet “under construction”: On
OpenShot on Ubuntu 10.04
about 8 months ago - 4 comments
OpenShot is a nice video editor, but it isn’t on Ubuntu repositories yet. So, they have requested on Launchpad to be included on universe repositories on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx). If you want to help, do to the request page and mark the bug as “Yes, it affects me”. [You need to be logged in
Google history in 2 minutes
about 10 months ago - 1 comment
I saw on Google Discovery, a video made by Google UK about the Google history. Very good! Watch it:
How to create signatures with images on Gmail
about 10 months ago - 2 comments
A friend of mine asked me about why gmail don’t have signatures with images. I said: “What? Sure it has!” I never thought it was something strange, but he said that had never found a good way to do this. So, look this. First, you have to enable two options on Labs (don’t know what’s
Very cool koala (9.10) T-shirt
about 10 months ago - 1 comment
Today Ubuntu Karmic Koala will be released, and I didn’t buy a koala T-shirt yet (I’m accepting gifts). Look this: Wow! I’m amazed! How they can do something so cool with just three circles (or elipses)?? If you want to buy one to send me, the link is: https://shop.canonical.com
Nerd Venn Diagram
about 11 months ago - 2 comments
Just saw in Geeks are Sexy a Nerd Venn Diagram to determine which type of “nerd” you are:
Ubiquity for Firefox
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
I installed Ubiquity on my Firefox and I’m a little crazy, because it’s very good… See the video: Ubiquity for Firefox from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance
about 1 year ago - 9 comments
A few days ago I marked an article to read later and I finally read it. It’s about how to Vacuum your Firefox databases for better performance. According the post, “since Firefox 3.0, bookmarks, history and most storage is kept in SQLite databases”. So, optimize this databases is very healthy to Firefox. And it’s very
Starting Linux through Windows XP boot list (boot.ini)
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
Last week I had to recover the grub in a notebook after a Windows reinstall. The easiest way would be running an Ubuntu live cd and run the grub program. But I hadn’t a cd and tried with a bootable usb stick and… nothing. That notebook doesn’t boot by usb. I tried also with a
How to open PDFs inside Firefox on Linux
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
I was thinking about how to open a PDF file inside Firefox on Ubuntu, like the Acrobat plugin do on Windows, but using Evince. So I “googled” about Evince and Firefox and found it quickly in the Lâmpada Azul site. Altought it has many steps, I used only the first and it worked very well.
about 1 year ago
Tested it here, verified. Epic.
about 1 year ago
Note to mention that Google also handles recursion in other languages. At least I can confirm it for the Swedish word rekursion:
http://www.google.se/search?q=rekursion
It’s nice to see that while Google might have become one of the large multinational cooperations, they still have managed to keep some of their geeky charm.
about 1 year ago
Pretty neat!
Also works with récursivité in French.
about 1 year ago
You didn’t type it in italics.