I upgraded to Wordpress 2.5 today.
It’s great. Installation was a breeze, and the new admin interface is sleek and simple to use. It works much better than the onl one as an added bonus.
I’m not going to go on and on about it, when so many of its neat features are already on the Wordpress [...]

The education sector has by far the most potential to steer and promote the direction of open-source than anything else in the UK. So why has Becta waited a year to whinge about Office and Vista instead of doing what it’s there to do – lead?

Downloading FLV videos can be a nuisance, as there are few regular players that they work on.
In Linux, there are various ways to convert FLV files to other formats. I’m hoping to build up a collection of commands and comment on the quality of the result.
Hopefully others will find it useful.
FFMpeg
ffmpeg -i video.flv -ab 56 [...]

I was playing around with Wine the other day. It’s pretty cool that I can run Dreamweaver and Fireworks on Ubuntu with very few issues now.
One of the problems I did encounter was that the setup program for Dreamweaver wouldn’t run under wine, and the program files had to be copied across to my Linux [...]

I needed to set up some remote access today, and although it was straightforward, it was difficult finding the information I needed.
Set up the server (that’s your computer)

Click System > Preferences > Remote Desktop
Tick the boxes as shown, and set up a password. If you don’t want to force a popup window when a connection [...]

Well, it’s very exciting that a new plugin has been developed that allows live manipulation of desktop windows. Over on SmSpillaz’s blog, he’s got some links to YouTube as well as a nice screenshot of the desktop.
The plugin is only in alpha and requires compilation on the system that you are using… But the [...]