Tag: software
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Create a text only animated GIF using Canva and Gimp
This post describes how to use Canva and GIMP to create an animated GIF file containing text only that can be attached to a tweet or uploaded into a Blog post. It’s only one of many ways to create an animated GIF. To walk through the process I’ve chosen to create an animated GIF composed…
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Why I’ve accidentally migrated from Ubuntu back to Windows
After four months with a new laptop, I realise that I’ve accidentally migrated from Ubuntu Linux back to Windows. This wasn’t my intention when my new Dell Vostro arrived in September. I started using Ubuntu back in 2006 and was, until September, predominantly a Linux user. My ratio of Ubuntu to Windows use was about…
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Is a smartphone running Ubuntu the only device you’ll ever need?
Canonical’s founder, Mark Shuttleworth, announced on Tuesday that its Ubuntu operating system has been modified to run on smartphones, opening up the possibility of using the same operating system on phones and PCs. A key selling point of Ubuntu for phones is the ability to dock an Ubuntu smartphone with a monitor and keyboard. It…
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Netbooks were a flawed concept but so are tablets
The announcement that Asus and Acer have stopped manufacture of netbooks (Sayonara Netbooks, Guardian 31 December 2012) brings to an end a promising but flawed experiment in low cost, high portability computing. They were an interesting, but insufficiently flexible tool, that has been overtaken by tablet computers in the consumer’s quest for highly portable computing.
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Why note taking software will change your life
Notes – I’m always making them and I guess you are too. From a hastily scribbled name or phone number to the details of a book or article you found interesting, or even that brilliant idea you’ve just had that will make your fortune, there are many notes and ideas we need to jot down…