Posted by: generalmaximus on: November 12, 2008
I just downloaded MindNode, a mind mapping program for the MacOS. Here’s a screenie.
Now, I’ve used tried several mind mapping programs before, including the popular FreeMind, but I’ve never liked any of them much. Mind mapping programs are supposed to help you chalk out your ideas clearly and succinctly using visual cues to draw attention [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: November 4, 2008
All right, it’s not really one click, but sharing your files across a network is now easier than ever before. What I did here hasn’t been tested with Windows, but I suppose it should work okay with it as well since I used Samba. I can’t guarantee 100% compatibility with Windows since I didn’t have [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: October 26, 2008
So far I’ve had to share my PC with my little brother. That meant always having to keep a separate partition for Windows XP, keeping antivirus software up to date and performing mundane maintenance tasks I’ve never had to perform on a Linux system. That also meant constantly having to reinstall GRUB manually each time [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 17, 2008
Peppy is a very nice XEmacs like text editor written in Python using the WxWidgets toolkit. It’s a godsend for people like me who need to fully control their text editor, but do not want to learn a completely new domain specific language like Elisp or Vimscript. Now I can write plugins for my text editor using [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 8, 2008
I’m not really a Windows person. I prefer to use Linux simply because of the large repository of free development tools it offers. I’ve never had to dig too much to find the library/IDE/text editor/compiler/interpreter I wanted.
Today I just wanted to browse around the web a bit, so I booted into Windows (which I normally [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: April 8, 2008
A couple of days back I broke Ubuntu, as I usually do with all my tinkering and probing. Instead of just reinstalling the system, I decided to give another distro a spin since Hardy would be out soon anyway. The distro I chose was Zenwalk. I must say I’m never going back to Ubuntu again.
Never has my desktop looked so beautiful, and it has certainly never been this snappy since I bought it one [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: March 3, 2008
ScribeFire kicks red rainforest monkey butt. Finally, I can post here without having to -
1. Log into WordPress.2. Wait for the fifty quintillion petabyte interface to load.3. Wait for Firefox to render the page.4. Hope that Firefox doesn’t freeze while I’m writing a post.
And I run heavily customized and slimmed down installations of either Ubuntu [...]
