The screenshot tool Shutter has been updated to version 0.88, adding upload support for many more services, including Dropbox. Shutter offers advanced screen capture modes, a built in image editor, image editing plugins, and the new upload plugins. The new upload plugins seem to be very well implemented. To upload to Dropbox for the first [...]

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Command line Git can pale in comparison to fancy web interfaces like GitHub and Bitbucket. Using these sites lead me to look at some of the graphical Git clients available in Ubuntu. I’m far from a Git expert, and I haven’t spend much time playing with these yet, but here’s what I found: git gui [...]

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My Eee PC 901 is more than powerful enough to play back 480p video, but not when it’s playing though Adobe Flash Player. 408p YouTube videos drop frames and don’t play back at full framerate. YouTube has an experimental HTML5 video player that should offer better better performance than Flash. I enabled it, but it [...]

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I’ve been doing lots of document editing with LaTeX lately, so I was happy to see that a new version of my favorite LaTeX editor has been released. Gummi 0.6.0 adds many requested features. I’ve been looking forward most to continuous scrolling in the preview pane, but there’s now also tabbed editing, project support, and [...]

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Whether you prefer indenting code with tabs or spaces, the last thing you want to do is mix both styles in one file. The gedit text editor lets you specify what to insert when you press tab, but if you’re jumping between files in different languages or written by different people, you must remember to [...]

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