Best Gnome distro of 2016

What? Dedoimedo, have you been drinking Peckham Spring lately? No, I have not. The reason why we have the Gnome desktop environment included…

Best Xfce distro of 2016

Let us continue where we started with the KDE/Plasma nominations. It is time to vector our all-seeing eye toward another desktop environment – Xfce.…

The end is near. I mean, 2016 has less than a month left on its credit. We should now step back and contemplate.…

Linux is highly portable. Fact. On the other hand, Linux software is the least portable technology in the world. Try running Firefox designed for…

Increased security often comes at a price in Linux distributions. Tails, for example, allows anonymous browsing at the cost of running from a…

24th October 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

NASA has just put online a huge number of sound clips for free download and use. Ideal for mixing into music, or for…

20th October 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

The Folger Shakespeare Library is sharing tens of thousands of high resolution images on their site covering book covers, inside pages from original…

8th September 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

Always on the look out for new resources, we came upon the Internet Archive’s Book Images account on Flickr. The account contains well…

10th August 2014 by Paul Brown 1 comment

Using nearly exclusively the free Blender 3D and compositing software and a lot of talent, the Karma Pirates crew have created DYNAMO –…

28th May 2014 by Paul Brown No comments.

Admittedly, to write a novel all you need is a pen and paper, and to paint a picture all you need is a…