Sunday, November 16, 2008

One of the issues that I’ve always had with online document tools like Google Docs is that there’s a kind of lock-in going on. Once your documents are in there, there’s no easy way to get them out.
However, that’s no longer true. Thanks to some smart software called GdataCopier, you can automatically download [...]

Christer Edwards has an excellent blog post up on how to install Google Earth on the latest version of Ubuntu, 8.10. It’s a simple three-step process, and while I’m not a huge fan of Google Earth, I know that there’s plenty of you out there.

Despite only being released a few weeks ago, Ubuntu 8.10 (otherwise known as Intrepid Ibex) doesn't include the latest OpenOffice, 3.0.
If you want to upgrade, here's what you have to do:
Step 1: Add the repository, by going to system -> Administration -> Software sources and adding:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ubuntu intrepid main
to your list of sources.
Step [...]

If, like me, you bought a Windows Vista upgrade on the day it was released you probably remember the feeling of vague nausea you experienced when you realised that your 18-month old hardware simply couldn’t run the operating system well enough.

You weren’t the only one troubled by Vista’s performance. Jim Allchin, the Microsoft executive [...]