Posts Tagged ‘tech’

Picasa for Mac

Hallelujah finally Picasa is available for Mac! Albeit in Beta form (although it’s a Google product though right, so hopefully it’ll be beta like Maps Beta and Gmail Beta.). Download ye now!

…aaaaand back to Firefox 2.0.0.14

I’ve tasted Firefox 3, but I’ve gone back to 2.0.0.14. Because:

Where’s the scrollbars? This isn’t intentional is it?
I don’t want programs to decide for me which language I want to type in. That’s what the language toggle in OSX is for. I particularly don’t want Firefox to change my language back to Japanese / [...]

Linux #2 – Damn Small Linux

So I downloaded, for fun, the 48MB Damn Small Linux operating system and ran it. I wanted to see what an OS scaled down to the max might look like. It’s ugly and basic, but surprisingly functional, with a full graphic interface. Certainly not something I would use everyday so I’ve deleted it already. One [...]

Breaking the Windows IV.

Er I deleted my install of Xubuntu.

Breaking the Windows III.

So I tried installing Automatix, a program supposed to help install useful programs on Linux. What a great idea, except that it got half way through installing JRE and froze. So then I tried to reboot the virtual machine and now the whole OS won’t start at all… apparently it “cannot locate RSDP” whatever that [...]