There are a lot of reasons people prefer Android over iOS – choice, openness, Google service integration and more. But one of the biggest reasons to go Android if you’re going mobile is the fact that you have access to your file system. This reason alone makes iOS a non-starter for me. I like putting files where I want them and I like to find them where I put them. And I prefer to orga... »
I’m the editor of a small weekly newspaper and run its website. I do a lot of different things, but what I spend do more than anything else is write and edit text documents. When I first started working with documents on a Mac (that was what the newspaper where I worked used) I wrote with Corel’s Word Perfect. Opening Office documents required translation software. It was a pain. That ... »
So I decided about two weeks ago that I wanted to begin using an Android tablet for work. Why would I do such a thing? Two reasons: 1) I really like Android. I’ve only really been using Android for about a year and a half. My first taste was a Barnes and Noble Nook Color that I rooted and flashed to CyanogenMod 7. From there, I got my first smartphone, A Samsung Galaxy S (was a long-time hol... »
In anticipation of a new Ubuntu release and in need of a fresh install on my Dell “test” laptop (11.6 inch, i3 1.2ghz, 4gb RAM) I thought I’d use the time to test drive some other distros. One that has been near and dear to me for some time is Bodhi Linux. When I first decided to get off the Apple money train and assemble my own desktop, I started with a super low cost bare bones... »
During the great GNOME/Unity debates of the last two years, the Ubuntu spinoff Linux Mint gathered a large following. Mint head Clem Lefebvre and the rest of his Mint Team attracted many devotees who wanted to hang on to the classic desktop that many had come to love in GNOME 2. Part of that effort produced Cinnamon, a fork of GNOME 3 that just hit a milestone with stable version 1.6 this ... »
If you follow news about Linux, you've definitely heard about game company Valve's push to bring its popular games and its client Steam to Ubuntu. For Linux fans, the turn of events has been fun to follow. Valve CEO Gabe Newell made a ton of headlines when he proclaimed Windows 8 to be a catastrophe and promised to “hedge his bets†with porting Steam and its games to Linux. Since then, the... »
I had intended to use part 4 to spend a lot of time discussing the merits and demerits of Firefox for mobile android, but by Thursday morning, my enthusiasm for Mozilla's web browser had evaporated. I pulled up Chrome, logged back in and relegated Firefox to viewing work email and documents (via Google apps). See, while Firefox is a fine second fiddle on the desktop, it's not terribly useful... »
So it's been roughly five days of living in Firefox. I installed and synced the browser successfully across my two laptops, tablet and phone and was ready to get to work. During the last two days, I went about using Firefox for my daily needs: email, writing google docs, content management for a website with WordPress, note taking and more. I can't report that everything went well. But I'll ... »