Dave

Dave

First Linux Steps

I took my first steps with Linux this week. At the start of the week, I installed Ubuntu on my old Toshiba laptop. It installed beautifully, and ran very nicely. Very quick to boot up indeed. In fact, I really,…

links for 2006-04-08

How fast is Excel compared to Calc? There’s a factor of 360 in it.. (tags: openoffice.org calc excel)

Blogbar

I have installed Blogbar in the sidebar of this blog, which you can use to search the site. The theme I use, Contempt, dosn’t appear to have a search bar included, though doubtless I could conjure one up if I…

links for 2006-04-05

Blogbar is a free search engine bar for inclusion in your blog and/or website! (tags: blogging search technorati) Micro Persuasion: Ten Feedburner Hacks (tags: blogging feed rss web2.0) AnandTech – Freeware programs and applications (tags: free software) How I Work:…

Zoho

Zoho looks like it offers some interesting online applications, the word processor looks especially good as is an alternative for those who can’t get Writely accounts at the moment because of the post Google purchase embargo on new users. [tags]zoho[/tags]

Qumana/Lycos deal

Looks like Qumana has been bought up by arranged a distribution deal with Lycos, if this URL is anything to go by. Nothing on the Qumana blog yet. Mark Evans has some detail. [tags]qumana, lycos[/tags]

01:02:03 04/05/06

Robert Scoble posts on the fun they are having over the pond with the fun being had early yesterday morning with the time and date – at two minutes and three seconds passed 1am in American format it appears as…

links for 2006-04-04

Why organisations are right to ban Skype (tags: voip skype) Megite Technology News: What’s Happening Right Now (tags: aggregator rss AJAX news)