Ubuntu 12.04 to feature voice commands
According to PC World Ubuntu 12.04 will feature voice commands. This sounds like an exciting feature for the next LTS release of Ubuntu, but I wonder if it’s a bit premature introducing something new into a long term release? Personally, I’m excited. I remember sitting down in 1996 in front of OS/2 Warp 4 testing [...]
F10 doesn’t work here (Word)
Yet another nit-picking Microsoft Word detail. Part of this nit-picking stems from a bit of previous instruction which worked, but not without me going through the simple steps several times. I’m a hot-key kind of guy, and this exercise required several hot-key presses, 4 to be exact. The problem I had was that I was [...]
Right click anywhere on ribbon is not accurate
One of the exercises in the first chapter of the book I’m working with on Microsoft Word 2007 suggested you could click anywhere on the ribbon to bring up the menu that allows you to customize the quick access bar. If fact right clicking on several places of the ribbon will not bring up any [...]
Series of Microsoft Word posts
Friends know me as a Linux and open source evangelist and might be wondering if I’ve switched to the dark side. I assure everyone I haven’t. For several months I’ve been supporting a self-directed class on Microsoft Word and I decided it was time that I learn Word more in-depth. Part of the reason I [...]
The state of the Linux desktop
We’ve seen a lot of changes to the Linux desktop over the past 10 years. Going through some old screen shots I turned up this Red Hat version 8.0 (pre-Fedora) screenshot. It’s simple, it’s elegant, and really light-weight compared to today’s desktops. We advanced technologies like Compiz for 3D graphics and can now do all [...]
