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The News
Thursday, 8 Apr 2010
How To Obtain Linux
Date: 8 Apr 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 1039
Linux can run on nearly any electronic device including set-top boxes, cellphones, and even gas pumps; but in this article we are going to concentrate on the most classic of environments that receives the majority of attention....personal computers.
RECENT NEWS HEADLINES
7 Cool Firefox Add-ons
Date: 27 Mar 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 11335 / Comments: 8
What is your favorite DE/WM for Linux/UNIX?
Date: 9 Mar 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 1000 / Comments: 3
Why Use Linux?
Date: 3 Feb 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 5474 / Comments: 9
Multimedia
Monday, 8 Mar 2010
Free Software Time Line Video
Date: 8 Mar 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 866
I decided to entertain myself figuring out how Pitivi works and in the process I ended up throwing together a brief video providing a loose time line for some major milestones in free and open software.
RECENT MULTIMEDIA HEADLINES
Comparing Browsers on Linux
Date: 16 Feb 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 4534 / Comments: 15
Old Episodes: The Linux Box Show, Episodes 1-7
Date: 12 Jan 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 1180
Productivity
Saturday, 5 Jun 2010
Extending OpenOffice.org
Date: 5 Jun 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 3479 / Comments: 7
Everyone has heard the old saying "lies, damn lies, and statistics", well statistically OpenOffice.org is used somewhere between 0.2% and 22% depending as to where you live. (these statistics can be found at Webmasterpro.de). This leaves a lot of people saying, "Huh?!?". So I will resolve to discuss OOo adoption anecdotally. The first class of pharmacy students I taught 4 years a go had never heard of OpenOffice.org prior to me using it for a presentation, but this past month (May 2010) I had several students email me their pharmacy law papers as ODTs. The reasons for this increased adoption could be due to multiple reasons such as alternatives being perceived as bloated, slow, and expensive or the increased number of students I have using alternative operating systems where OOo has a native port or maybe even the fact that they find their pharmacy professor so darn cool that they want to be just like him and run OOo as well. As biased as I am towards myself, I seriously doubt it's that last reason but I am seeing more and more OOo use. My intention with this article is not to proselytize OOo, but instead to show some good ways to extend the use of OOo.
RECENT PRODUCTIVITY HEADLINES
What is your favorite office productivity suite?
Date: 1 Jun 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 277 / Comments: 1
ooo templates by sean, version 0.2.0
Date: 12 Jan 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 4528 / Comments: 4
Original Art
Sunday, 25 Apr 2010
A Dozen GNOME Themes
Date: 25 Apr 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 4838 / Comments: 6
Now there are plenty of sites that have posted their top 10, top 16, top 25, even their top 50 themes for GNOME, but some how their lists always include the same designs over and over. The goal here is to look at some newer and/or forgotten themes, some interesting combinations fom preexisting themes, and some inclusions of original work to provide a reason to look at these themes.
RECENT ART HEADLINES
Firefox Persona: The Linux Box
Date: 24 Mar 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 603
Pandora Icon
Date: 12 Feb 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 1279
Gentle XFCE
Date: 19 Jan 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 3321
Random Stuff
Thursday, 14 Jan 2010
6,760 Fonts
Date: 14 Jan 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 7648 / Comments: 3
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to try a different font every day for the next 18.5... years and never repeat any fonts?
RECENT RANDOM HEADLINES
Fun Fonts
Date: 12 Jan 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 5374 / Comments: 5
TLB Comix
Thursday, 4 Mar 2010
TLB Comix #3
Date: 4 Mar 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 944
RECENT TLB COMIX
TLB Comix #2
Date: 3 Mar 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 818 / Comments: 1
TLB Comix #1
Date: 15 Feb 2010 / Author: SeanParsons / Views: 979