Pianobar Console Client for Pandora

I use a lot of older machines for this and that activity and along with using Fluxbox for a lightweight Windows Manager or XFCE as a lightweight Desktop Manager I am always watching my System Monitor to see what else I can offload to lighten the load or increase the responsiveness of my computer.

Yesterday [...]

Jolicloud: Web Based OS

In the shop on my bench today I am working on Jolicloud

The main purpose of Jolicloud is to present a web enabled GUI. Under the hood, it’s based on the Ubuntu long term service release (10.04), and the front end is handled by a combination of the Chromium web browser and a full screen [...]

One Cool Screenlet To Get You Started

If you are like me you haven’t used Screenlets on Ubuntu yet, what you need is one great one to get you sucked into the warp drive and get started. Screenlets are an excellent application to experiment with. And there are lots of useful third party user contributed screenlets available for free. Here is the [...]

Google Talk Does Video Chat

Reading the Google Talk Blog I find that Linux is now supported for Voice and Video Chat. http://www.google.com/chat/video. Give it a try! I know that is is supported on Ubuntu and I haven’t gotten a chance to try it on Fedora yet.

One Application to Remember to Install on Ubuntu

Ubuntu Restricted Extras

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Installs Java, Flash, fonts, codecs. Very useful.