Gnome DO
When using Linux one of the things I’ve missed was a good Dock bar. I’m so used to using one in Windows (see Anatomy of my Desktop for more details) that it feels completely different managing my Tasks without using this kind of application. There is more then one dock for Linux, actually, but they always felt very buggy or feature incomplete to me, so I kinda tried to live without them. But recently I came across a project I didn’t know about, called Gnome Do. I haven’t tried it yet, going to install it today but from the description and the feature list this was just what I was looking for. The look is great. I’ll give you more details after I try it, but I think if you’re interested in Linux you should keep an eye on this app still on 0.8 version.
Vistart: Windows XP Menu Like Vista
So you still use Windows XP on one of your machines, but you are already familiar to the way Windows Vista is organized? Found another tool you might find useful interesting to join your I_want_XP_to_look_like_Vista type of application.
It keeps running in the background with an Icon in the Taskbar. It works well, I’ve tried it. It’s not Vista… but it sure tries to make XP look like it.
You can also find some themes for it under DeviantART.
- Link: Vistart
Acronis True Image 10 for Free!
Acronis released their new backup suite, Acronis 2009, so they took the chance to put a campaign offering FREE copies of Acronis True Image 10! All you have to do is register and voilá!
Link: Acronis True Disk 10 Promotion
Found via Lifehacker.
PS – While I was writing this post I tried to register… and apparently server died or something…
Linux Tip: Firefox Backspace
So… I recently reinstalled Ubuntu (version 8.10 this time) to find a very solid piece of Software. Everything worked out of the box, even Compiz.
Anyway… there were one thing that was making me crazy. Firefox 3 didn’t use Backspace key as a shortcut to the Back function, i.e., pressing backspace didn’t make you return to the previous web page. This is something I use A LOT on Windows on any browser, so not having this possibility is a major turn of. I don’t even know why the hell Mozilla don’t turn this option as default since this is like something taken for granted, at least for me.
Anyway… the good news is it’s a very simple thing to fix.
Visual Style Releases
Been a long time since I do a lookup on recent visual styles releases. Once again Deviant Art was the main subject of search. I divided the visual styles into categories to make it easier for you.
Windows XP
1. Alduin 2
