by Dave | Oct 30, 2012 | Tinker Blog
I use MySQL Workbench all day long, every day. You probably don’t, I know, but I’m share you’ve shared the experience of working with a good app that just falls on its face in certain ways. MySQL Workbench, for example, doesn’t integrate with...
by Dave | Sep 13, 2012 | Tinker Blog
I had a lot of fun installing the Quantal Quetzal beta yesterday. It’s nice to be back after several months in Windows land. At this point I’m doing things in a dual boot setup. A couple of things I ran into: I had weird visual striping problems trying to...
by Dave | Nov 30, 2011 | Improving Apps
It seems like such a waste of time- in the past several weeks most of the ‘news’ my various sources have cobbled together based on my interests have been a slew of “Ubuntu no longer the most popular” ‘news’ stories. Give me a break....
by Dave | Nov 15, 2011 | Tinker Blog
Need to work on focusing? Try out the Tea Time timer on Launchpad. You can set up set periods of time. Depending on your work style that might include a timer for when you need to look away from your display, how long you should be in ‘flow’ time hacking...
by Dave | Nov 15, 2011 | Tinker Blog
If you’d like to get some nice thumbnails of your OpenOffice/LibreOffice documents, follow these instructions from Webupd8: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flimm/ooo-thumbnailer sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ooo-thumbnailer Once installed, restart...
