Category Archives: Computers

Google Chrome beta on Mandriva Linux

As I just said, I like shiny new toys, so when I got the email earlier today inviting me to enjoy the Linux beta of Google’s Chrome browser, I dropped everything and went to check it out.
I was disheartened to find the following:

“Get Google Chrome (BETA)
It’s free and installs in seconds
New! For Linux
(Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE)”
Uh oh.  Really?  [...]

TweetDeck on Mandriva

Because I like new toys, and because I am still not certain how to make sense of conversations in Twitter, I went looking for a better way to interface with Twitter. After a fair amount of searching, I concluded that TweetDeck would be as good as anything to try first.
I had a bit of [...]

GIMP: Combining selections

In case Part II (Filters -> Decor -> Round Corners) wasn’t enough, in case Part I (Select -> Rounded Rectangle) wasn’t enough, in case even Part III (layer masks) wasn’t enough to satisfy the demand for demonstrations by me of photographs with round corners…I feel compelled to ask:
What happens if you only want some of [...]

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