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Archive for the ‘apps’ Category

There are plenty of office suites as well as a whole host of other productivity software freely available for GNU/Linux. Most of these provide the average user with all the functionality they need from a word processor, desktop database or spread sheet application. Some will even open documents created in Microsoft Word or Excel with varying degrees of success. There will be some issues when it comes to Read the rest of this article »

Nobody wants Windows Vista

Monday, 23rd June 2008 by Musaul Karim

Not even Intel, one of their biggest partners! That’s a pretty damning verdict on Vista considering Intel have full source code access to the thing.

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Best Thunderbird Addons

Sunday, 15th June 2008 by Musaul Karim

Thunderbird pluginsOn its own Mozilla Thunderbird is quite a decent email client. However, there are a number of add-ons that add some useful new features as well as ones already present in the competition.
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There are plenty of applications in GNU/Linux for playing music or watching movies and TV, and many of them will work perfectly fine on old computers that choke on the simplest of tasks in Windows XP. Read the rest of this article »

Despite of being around for years, adoption of GNU/Linux based operating systems in the mainstream desktop has been slow. But now it is getting more coverage thanks to distributions such as Ubuntu, and for being included with some new computers from manufacturers such as Dell.

More people are asking what can I run on it, and what do I use for writing documents, editing photos etc. In this series of articles I will cover a number of common use applications that should be relevant to most people. I’ll start with the mostly used applications in todays average computer. Read the rest of this article »

Minimum and Maximum widths in IE6 CSS

Tuesday, 19th February 2008 by Musaul Karim

In a previous article I showed you how easy it is to create a constrained fluid layout i.e. one with a minimum and maximum widths. While this works on all standards compliant browsers, it doesn’t work in Internet Explorer 6. Read the rest of this article »