Computer notes

Long time since my last post. What's more, it might be sometime before I can seriously focus on this blog again as I'll be away fro...

I've used Gimp in both Linux and OS X for many years. However, I'm not even remotely an expert in photo re-touching. But I do a ...

I use quite a few notifiers to keep me aware of incoming emails on my Gmail system. On my Mac, I use Google Notifier in the upper panel a...

I mentioned that I fully restored OS X to my MacBook by wiping the disk and reinstalling. Of course, Google Chrome had to be reinstalled a...

I've been using Conky in all of the OSes that I use on my Pi from the very start . Whereas on my Desktops, I always like to display Co...

Yesterday, I explained how I copied my Raspbian from one 4GB SDCard to another of size 8GB. Now I wanted this for a new RPi that I intende...

I use many OSes on my RPi but my favourite has to be Raspbian with a Fluxbox window manager. It's lightweight and lends itself very wel...

Before wiping my MacBook HDD , I copied everything I needed to an external hard drive. Well, not quite everything. For years I have used ...

I've been using a 13" MacBook (late 2009, 2.26 GHz C2D, 4GB RAM) for more than three years and it was starting to get uncomfortably...

I've already mentioned this excellent post on this topic which, for me at least, is truly groundbreaking. Everything in this post wor...

I got my camera module from Farnell last week. Notification and delivery went very smoothly. On Sunday (12/05/2013) I indicated my interes...

I've used Fedora 17 on my Pi for some time and it works well although there are some problems. My experience is detailed in this post ...

This is my first post in a long time as I was away in Brazil for a few weeks. Anyway, when I got back I settled down to do some updating o...

Came across this thread  today, although it's a week or so old, dealing with a lightweight webkit and supposedly very fast browser for t...

One of the problems about running an OS on your Pi (Raspberry Pi) is that the OS runs from an SDCard which is probably going to be either 4G...

I came across this interesting post  today which shows a Pi (powered but shutdown) will boot when a wifi dongle is plugged in. Really? Wi...

Yes, a captivating title if, perhaps, a little mysterious. What am I talking about? Well, I been using the Raspberry Pi for almost a year...

A friend, who writes a small blog, asked me for some help taking the page view data from StatCounter for his blog and displaying it in  Con...