Setting up Ubuntu on an SSD

Published in April 26th, 2012

Posted by Tom in tips

I recently purchased a new solid state drive (SSD) to replace my current hard drive (HDD). Since SSDs work so much differently than HDDs, it’s worth while to make some optimizations in Ubuntu for them. SSDs are much faster than HDDs, but have a limited number of writes before they wear out. This makes balancing [...]

GNOME 3.2 and GNOME Shell Extensions

Published in December 5th, 2011

Posted by Tom in software

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GNOME has launched an alpha of the GNOME Shell Extensions website. Like Firefox, GNOME Shell allows extensions to modify and extend the user interface. The site allows you to browse and install extensions written by third parties, but reviewed by GNOME before being made available. There are already many extensions to bring back elements of [...]

Even More Graphical Git Clients

Published in December 2nd, 2011

Posted by Tom in software

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Since my last post about finding a graphical Git client for Ubuntu, I’ve been using the excellent gitg. But here’s four more that I’ve come across since then, most recommended by comments on the previous post: qgit, as the name suggests, uses the QT GUI toolkit. qgit is a gitk-style interface for viewing revisions. Before [...]

Shutter 0.88 Screenshot Tool Released

Published in November 28th, 2011

Posted by Tom in software

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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 [...]

Graphical Git Clients for Ubuntu

Published in November 26th, 2011

Posted by Tom in software

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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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