June 27, 2010
Google’s Picasa desktop application has it, Apple’s iPhoto has it and even Windows Live Photo Gallery now has it. What am I talking about? Face recognition.
Picasa Vs… Ermm
The lack of capable face-recognition in native Linux photo managers has meant, for many, that the hodge-podge of Google’s Picasa has remained the only viable choice when seeking out a ‘modern’ photo-manager that is able to keep up with the Joneses. For as spurious or novel...
- Mozilla launched today an update to firefox crash protection feature to extend the amount of time Firefox will wait before terminating unresponsive plugins.
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... - Windows/Mac/Linux: A new stable channel release of Google Chrome just came out and it brings integrated Flash to the browser—Chrome will now update and manage Flash for you.
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... - Cardapio - the awesome alternative main menu applet we've championed here on OMG! for some time - has a hidden secret: you can use it via Docky!
How so? First check you've actually installed Cardapio (see here for that info) and then follow the following steps: -
... - From time to time, I need to precisely replicate an Ubuntu Server installation over and over again. If my testing requires turning the installation crank, preseeding can certainly help automate that. But Ubuntu Server installations on ...
Screenlet clock fans seeking an Android clock theme need look no further.
Regular readers may well know that I had made an Android clock skin myself but since it has disappeared from both my Drop Box and my hard-drive we can all thanks Slater91 for coming to rescue and creating a new one for people to download and use....
- The newest version of Ubuntu has a simple option to encrypt a user's home directory, but it's not as obvious how to create a single encrypted directory, as there are several options for encryption. eCryptfs seems to work - this is how ...
Making your own fully customised Debian/Ubuntu based operating system has never been easier using Novo Builder - an easy-to-use GUI ‘Linux Operating System building tool’.
Novo was was built to “…allow anyone with the time and interest in designing their own fully customized OS without having to spend a long time learning all the methods and tricks involved in getting a fully functional and installable OS.” ...
- In particular the 'LastOS_Linux' preset contains “…almost all the packages from Ubuntu Lucid, Ultimate Edition and Mint” plus a few of the developers' own 'themes, wallpapers, tools and choices'.. Some of the other main Novo Builder ...