Hi, my name is Jim and I’m a recovering Ubuntu fanboy.
The Urban Dictionary defines a fanboy as “a person who is completely loyal to a game or company regardless of if they suck or not.” In the past, I’ve been exactly that, and I think that a lot of other people in the Ubuntu community [...]
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Confessions of an Ubuntu Fanboy
Ubuntu MeMenu to Encourage Social Media Broadcasting
It seems that a huge segment of the world’s population has gone Twitter and Facebook crazy. People are busy updating their statuses, sending each other links, and trying to see how many “friends” and “followers” they can get. We are becoming social “broadcasters”, constantly bombarding our “friends” with 140 character chunks of information. In reality, [...]
From OS X to Ubuntu: 2 Years Later
A little more than 2 years ago, I made a switch away from Mac OS X to Ubuntu Linux. Since then, I have used Ubuntu Linux about 98% of the time on my personal and work computers. I still have to support Windows on some computers at work, I kept my Macbook (which rarely got [...]
Ubuntu Switches to Yahoo! Search … Kinda
There’s been a lot of noise recently in the Ubuntu community about the announcement that Canonical is planning to switch the default search engine and home page in Firefox to Yahoo! Search. People are tweeting about it, podcasting about it, and generally getting worked up. Some think that it’s the end of the world (or an [...]
Restore the Default Gnome Panels in Ubuntu [Ubuntu Beginners Series]
Sometimes crazy things happen when you’re using Ubuntu, especially when you’re first getting started. It’s easy to mess things up and sometimes hard to get them back to normal. One problem I often see is that people accidentally delete their top or bottom panels (the bars that go across the top and bottom of your desktop [...]
Easily Install Chromium Daily Builds on Ubuntu
There has been a lot of talk about Google Chrome since it was released last September. Google has promised a Linux version of Chrome, but it’s still not here. Some people have found ways to run the Windows version of Chrome using wine, but we want to see a native Linux version. Enter Chromium, the [...]
Stream Music with the Last.fm Client on Ubuntu
For Ubuntu 10.04 instructions, read our updated post here
These days, it seems like we’re doing more and more important work inside our browsers. We’re checking our email, Facebook, Twitter, writing documents, listening to music, watching videos, etc. Sometimes, this increased use of the browser can lead to a serious slowdown or even browser crashes. Not [...]
$250 Desktop Runs Ubuntu, Windows 7 and OS X?
I recently wanted to get a new desktop computer to use for some programming projects. Seeing that I have a bunch of old computer parts laying around, I wanted to build my own computer. I started out by looking at some of the newest top-end Intel and AMD processors and motherboards, but the total price [...]
Find, Share and Install Ubuntu Apps on Facebook
Recently, I wanted to learn how to make Facebook applications using Ruby on Rails. For my first project, I decided to build a small application to let people find, share, install and promote Ubuntu software right from within Facebook. Determining which software we use can be a very social experience, often we’ll ask our friends [...]
Synchronize Tomboy Notes with Dropbox
One of my absolute favorite online services of the past year is Dropbox. It’s a very easy to use service that integrates with your Linux, Mac and Windows desktops and allows you to sync files across computers (among other things). Think of it as a big USB flash drive in the sky.
Not only is it [...]
