May 21, 2020 KDE Connect call notifications hang around KDE Connect is awesome! One of the most useful features is a functional replacement to “click to call” on Web sites. With KDE Connect,…
April 30, 2018 New Ubuntu release, old PC donated I scratched together a working desktop from old components lying around the house. With the release of Kubuntu 18.04 she’s as good as new….
March 31, 2018 USB headset usability Hot on the heels of my last post about USB key usability I have another one to share, this time about headsets. Nate Graham’s…
February 28, 2018 USB key usability It’s been interesting following Nathaniel Graham’s blog about usability and productivity developments in KDE. It shows how much the devs really care about user…
September 15, 2017 Another move for open mobile The KDE project has announced a partnership with Purism to support Plasma mobile on its upcoming handset. More details here. I’ve been coving alternative…
April 30, 2017 Well done GNOME By now volumes have been written about why Canonical will replace its own Unity desktop with GNOME so I won’t bother to express any…
June 30, 2016 It’s good to be back on Chakra I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems…
May 30, 2016 Watch those default power saving settings If you’re using a KDE-based Linux distro inside a VirtualBox VM keep an eye on the default energy saving settings as you can get…
July 26, 2015 KDE announces Plasma Mobile In another development for independent mobile environments, the KDE project has announced Plasma Mobile. Announced during Akademy, KDE’s yearly worldwide conference, the Plasma Mobile…
January 29, 2015 Notification to nowhere Most operation systems have notification services that attempt to notify, if not inform, the user when a significant even has occurred. Such as? Hmm……
June 30, 2012 Control your data with OwnCloud In this age of Cloud Computing there is a massive amount of personal data being harvested and managed by Cloud vendors which have a…
January 31, 2012 x86 tablet distro? I’ve been tinkering with a few options for Linux on an x86 (Atom) touchscreen tablet. I successfully booted up: Android x86 Plasma Active 2…
June 29, 2011 Kissing Kate Just a quick post to say how much I love Kate – KDE advanced text editor – that is. Dynamic syntax highlighting, syntax keyword…
May 31, 2011 So long OpenSUSE I finally found the time to decommission my last OpenSUSE installation. And believe me it wasn’t before trying to save it. It was a…
December 23, 2010 The wheel has turned Okay, so I get around to upgrading my SO’s (I wuv yu LouLou) desktop and take the opportunity to break free from the OpenSUSE-Kubuntu…
November 28, 2010 Distro hunting again Having used everything under the Sun at one stage, this summer I’ll probably migrate my two main systems from Kubuntu and OpenSUSE to another…
August 23, 2010 Fixing Flash I’m generally not on the lookout for flash content on the Web, but after upgrading to KDE SC 4.5 I was forced to take…
June 26, 2010 Compiz-like key bindings for KWin’s cube effect If you’ve used the flashy spinning cube desktop effect on GNOME-based Linux systems running Compiz, you may be familiar with the ctrl-alt-left (or right…
May 20, 2010 Regressions, regressions So I “upgrade” to Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and in addition to my plasma panel getting nuked my notebook no longer suspended to RAM….
December 23, 2009 Happy holidays I’ve had quite a busy start to this year’s holiday season. Lots of shopping, driving people around, and time to brush up on my…