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Mounting an ISO image in Ubuntu and Windows

A CD. Yesterday.

An ISO image is a single file that images an entire (usually optical) disc – a CD or a DVD. They’re often used for software distributions or archives. Most CD authoring programs will happily accept them and burn them to disc – Ubuntu can even do this by simply right-clicking [...]

Dropbox update

Dropbox

Now that I’ve been using it for a few days, I though I’d give you an update on Dropbox. And it’s all positive. It does a lot more than I realised when I first signed up.

First up, you don’t need to have the Dropbox applet installed to access your files. This is [...]

Dropbox

Dropbox

Dropbox is a funky new toy I’ve been playing with under Ubuntu but it also works on pretty much any Linux flavour, as well as Windows and Mac.

It’s a file synchronisation program, and one of the simplest I’ve found to use. The free package gives you 2Gb of on-line storage and [...]

Sending SMS from Ubuntu Skype

Skybuntu?

I run my laptop with both Windows XP and Ubuntu dual-installed. I’m using primarily the Linux, but there are still a few apps that just can’t be replaced hence still having the old MS workhorse taking up hard drive space. One of these, until today, was an up-to-date version of Skype from which [...]

Teething problems

Apologies for the lack of regular posting but I’ve been really busy the last few days.

I’ve just installed Ubuntu on my laptop (alongside XP) and I’m tinkering with the default Firefox 3 web browser. Annoyingly, it seems that the fonts or something are slightly different than in Firefox 2 on Windows, so the title [...]