Easily Install Prism Web Apps in Ubuntu 8.04

Published in March 24th, 2008

Mozilla Prism is a web browser that allows web applications to be integrated with a traditional desktop and act like native applications. Launching a web app using Prism is done in the same way as launching an application installed on your computer, from the Applications menu. The Prism browser is simplified to not get in [...]

One Year of Tombuntu

Published in March 22nd, 2008

Posted by Tom in notices

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Approximately one year ago I started publishing posts on Tombuntu! In March 2007, I started to write posts seven days a week until early September 2007 when I switched to the weekday schedule. Tombuntu now has 300 posts, over 2,000 RSS feed subscribers, and receives thousands of visits per day. Just today the 1,000th comment [...]

Experiences Since Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Beta

Published in March 21st, 2008

Posted by Tom in hardyheron, reviews

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Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Beta has been released, you can get it by downloading a ISO disk image, or by upgrading Ubuntu 7.10 or any of the alpha releases. In this post I’ll just be writing about my experiences with the beta since installing it. Once the beta was out, I was ready to install [...]

GNOME Do – Much More Than an Application Launcher

Published in March 20th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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You could call GNOME Do an application launcher, but it does so much more. It allows you to quickly find all kinds of items and perform a variety of actions on them. Whatever you’re trying to do, GNOME Do can help you do it quickly. Install GNOME Do in Ubuntu 7.10 You’ll need to add [...]

Four Applications for Accessing Ext3 Partitions From Windows

Published in March 19th, 2008

Posted by Tom in software

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Want to share files between Windows and Linux on your dual-boot system? Using some free software you can read and write to your Linux partitions from XP or Vista. Here’s an overview of four programs that I found. (I’ve written about some of these in the past: here and here. First, a note about file [...]

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