Dec

9

Is There Any Good Screencasting in Ubuntu?

December 9, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 10 Comments
Posted in Applications

One of the things I’ve personally found frustrating in Linux is the development status of screencasting applications, or lack thereof. Some projects remain in beta, never coming to fruition, and eventually being abandoned. Others have quirks that seem to cause different issues based on what system they’re installed on. Why am I posting about this? [...]

Dec

7

Font Management for Ubuntu Linux

December 7, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 6 Comments
Posted in Applications

As someone whose business also provides web development and graphic design, among other services, it was a real treat to bump into this font management gem (a few hours ago) “Fonty Python”. As the name implies, it’s a python based application used to manage fonts – Great if you have a lot of fonts that [...]

Jun

5

Take screenshots on Ubuntu with Shutter

June 5, 2009 | By: Vadim Peretokin | 8 Comments
Posted in Applications

Prelude: Why write about a screenshot tool? It is a mistake to think that only “big” things (supported hardware, multimedia codecs, office applications and data conversion) matter when you want to successfully switch to an alternative operating system. For true happinessTM, the small things are as, or even more, important – the things that make [...]

May

21

Top 10 Linux Video Applications – NOT!

May 21, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 8 Comments
Posted in Applications, Experiences

I recently read a Digg post “10 Free Apps that Turn your Ubuntu into a Video Studio” and it annoyed the heck out of me! Maybe I’m being too critical, but I don’t see 10 top video applications in Linux (I’m an Ubuntu user). In fact, I don’t even see ten productive, functional, Linux based [...]

Mar

24

Building a Web Developer / Designer PC Using Ubuntu Linux – Revisited

March 24, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]

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