I place here at LinuxUndIch.de for quite some time after the so-called B-More one 468 × 80 banner ads. I find the right position is ideal because it not only failed in terms of yield rather works well – almost 1 / 3 of all clicks are here with me on this banner – but because it also has a function for the reader, because he was so immediately knows where he read must, if he should have read the teaser on the homepage or category page. Read the rest of this entry »

BlueGriffon WYSIWYG editor for HTML and CSS has a rather checkered history. The origins lie in the code from the first Mozilla Composer suites. Later split from the stand-alone program Nvu, which was then continued as a fork under the title KompoZer. The program now has some time under the name BlueGriffon found a new home. Read the rest of this entry »

Many sparrows whistle It even for days off the roof. Microsoft wants to buy Skype for billions a proud sum. Microsoft has now confirmed the rumors in a press release, the purchase price will be at 8.5 billion dollars. If you consider that the previous owner paid in 2009 only about $ 1.9 billion for 65 percent of the shares of Skype, this is not a bad deal. Read the rest of this entry »

In many forums and blogs you can find instructions on how to update the Dropbox client best. There are links to. Tar.gz archives distributed, you should unpack the archive by hand and push the data to the right place, etc. The cost is relatively large and not really necessary, because firstly, Dropbox has a built-in update routine and secondly You can initiate an update of Dropbox easier by hand. Read the rest of this entry »

Most indie games available for Linux is the last time was anything but nice games, but a real cracker was not there. This fact would change the label with the game Unigine Oil Rush. Oil Rush plays in a post-apocalyptic world flooded by water, into warring groups to fight the last oil reserves in the world. Read the rest of this entry »

Is to find Ubuntu-compatible hardware is not rocket science, but also not really trivial. Easy-to-flap only in fairy tales market and the prettiest box choose often means that the device but then again back to the dealer carries. In a press release, Canonical announced today that they have put a database into the grid, in which she of them and tested list for “Ubuntu capable” found to hardware. Read the rest of this entry »

Mid-December had me surprised t3n the magazine, as it LinuxUndIch sets up as a candidate for election to the blog readers of the year. Frankly I had no large prospects calculated after all, there some professionally run blogs with high beat number of articles at the start. About a month after the election is over, and what can I say? The surprise could not have been bigger! Madness! EinsElf! LinuxUndIch was chosen through you blog and facebookmarketing. Read the rest of this entry »

There are so many Protocols or applications to access over the LAN or Internet to the desktop of another computer. VNC, RDP, NX, SSH, Citrix XenApp, team viewer, etc. The possibilities are therefore quite diverse. Window Switch combines a whole series of these options in one interface and allows not only the desktop of a computer to look at one another. Read the rest of this entry »

World regarding free and platform-independent communication audio-/video is unfortunately still a pretty island. Although there are several ways to do a video chat on operating system boundaries, but there is no long-term client for Windows dominated the Audio-/Video-Chats via Jabber. However, momentum is so slow in the matter. Read the rest of this entry »

I'm actually quite happy with Ubuntu Maverick, but on my Lenovo S12 with ION chipset Maverick is somehow suboptimal. The system makes an impression quite sluggish, the WLAN must be activated manually after each boot, after a standby does not wireless and the PPTP module for NetworkManager at all do not want to connect to the VPN to the company. Read the rest of this entry »