I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 today. I only just restarted my computer a few moments ago after the upgrade, so I can’t give a full report just yet, but so far I have noticed two things that I like and one thing that I don’t. Like With 9.10, there were...
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Change the Language of the Evernote Interface
Apparently, Evernote is big in Japan, which is good news, BUT when I upgraded to Evernote 3.5, the language of the interface changed to Japanese because my computer’s OS is Japanese. I would prefer to work with Evernote in English, so I tried to find a way to change the...
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Okay, so here’s what happened. I bought a new computer and decided to treat myself to a wireless keyboard and mouse. When I plugged the receiver into the USB port in the back of my computer, the keyboard and mouse sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t, so I figured the signal...
Continue reading...Change Password in Ubuntu 9.10
I don’t really get how there are a bunch of different passwords in Ubuntu so when I decided to change my password to something a little less arduous to type, I ran into some problems because I ended up changing my password for some things but not for others and...
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I meant to write up lots of things about using Ubuntu after I installed in on my laptop. Unfortunately (well, fortunately for me), everything worked fine, so I didn’t have anything to write about! I just upgraded to 9.04 and have had some problems with my computer seeming slow sometimes....
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I am a complete newbie in the Unix/Linux world. I used some Unix workstations at university, but I never really had a very clear understanding of how they worked, so I think I can safely downgrade myself to “absolute beginner”. I have decided to jump into the world of Linux...
Continue reading...Kudos to Yahoo (Canada) Customer Service
This weekend, I was sitting at my computer reading an email that had just come in from a friend when all, of a sudden, that email and the 50 other emails that were in my inbox started deleting themselves one by one — permanently. They were not in my trash...
Continue reading...Unplug Computer and Internet during Thunderstorm
Here is a short, but sweet, bit of computer advice. If you hear a thunderstorm on the horizon, unplug your computer AND unplug the cable that connects your computer to the internet. In fact, if you live in a place that gets a lot of thunderstorms (in my city we...
Continue reading...Broken Links in Email?
If you send a long link to someone by email, sometimes the receiver’s email client breaks the line after a certain number of characters, thereby breaking the link. If it looks like your link won’t fit on a single line, consider making a shorter link on the TinyURL site and...
Continue reading...Someone Copied my Blog
Moments after I posted some articles about adding Picasa slideshows to websites, a rogue blogger stole my content and posted it VERBATIM to his own blog. I am certain that this was an automated attack and that it was nothing personal. (It was too fast to be otherwise.) I checked...
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