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Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals!

Ron Shank — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:36:31 +0000

WordPress for iphone is great

Ron Shank — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:02:56 +0000

The wordpress app for iPhone is awesome. I highly recommend it for anyone with a wordpress blog and an iPhone.

Amarok2: The Weekend at Bernie’s 2 of Software

Ron Shank — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:13:48 +0000

Amarok 1.4 WAS by far the best music player I had ever seen. So many options, a great functional layout with nearly everything you wanted no more than a single click away… I did say was. My recent upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 automagically left me with Amarok 2. Not only was it not playing out of the box, I seem to have lost all ability to customize it or control it. They say it’s the future of media players. Of course they do because, it’s sure not the present. I haven’t seen a sequel this bad since Weekend at Bernie’s 2.

Okay, enough ranting. What’s the answer, Ron? Right now, I’m extremely impressed with Exaile. It has all the features I use the most and sounds great. It lacks a way to sync my mp3 player with it (at least I haven’t found one yet) but I can still drag and drop. There is a plug-in for Ipod, but I’m not using an Ipod so I am not sure how well that works. Feel free to leave your thoughts/comments/rants below.

Only 2 minor hickups after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04

Ron Shank — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 03:08:42 +0000

I’m up and running with the latest Ubuntu release. It’s an upgrade from 8.10 which was an upgrade from 8.04.. you get the idea.

Only two hick-ups so far. The first, compiz boogered up on my leaving my Panels (or menu bars as some call them) not displaying properly. I finally had to reset them back to square one. Which is really easy to do, thanks to this post: How to Reset Ubuntu/Gnome Settings to Defaults without Re-installing.

My next minor problem was even easier to fix: Hide the drive and partition icons from my desktop. Ubuntu question #2625: “removing icons from the desktop”.

I also had to reconfigure my compiz settings manually. Everytime I restored from the back up profile, it boogered up something again making me reset my gnome defaults.

If you are a Ubuntu newbie and don’t understand half of what I just said, please feel free to post a comment or check in the Ubuntu Forums. We were all new once.

Don’t have Ubuntu or even know what it is?

Check out their website: www.ubuntu.com or nag me to put up a screencast of my own desktop.

Ubuntu 8.10: The Fastest-Most-Just-Worksiest Version Yet!

Ron Shank — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:32:40 +0000

I installed (upgraded to be exact) the Beta of Ubuntu 8.10 and it’s by far faster and “just works.”

Yeah! My video in Skype (still waiting for Skype to get serious about Linux, or find an alternative) now works (so I can see that my cam is not showing my head) Also working without extra effort: NVidia drivers and Broadband Wireless.

More updates when I have a little more time. If you have played around with it and find it better (or worse) than a previous version post away… oh and the new “DarkRoom” theme is McAwesome!