Customizing Your Gnome Desktop (Conclusion)

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Michael Koby

We have completed our latest series entitled “Customizing Your Gnome Desktop” and it was a nice one. We talked about customizing your background while touching on customizing your icons. We looked at window borders and GTK2.X controls. And to top it all off we went over customizing the Gnome Panel.

If you missed any of this series, you can find links to the individual chapters below.

Customizing Your Gnome Desktop (Introduction)
Customizing Your Gnome Desktop: Wallpaper
Customizing Your Gnome Desktop: Buttons & Window Borders
Customizing Your Gnome Desktop: Gnome Panel

By now, you should be able to do some of the more simple things to customize your Gnome Desktop.  If you still have questions, feel free to leave a comment or email me using the link on the right sidebar.

We have more fun stuff planned, so be sure to stick around.

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Want to Work for Google? Read This First…

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Michael Koby

A former Microsoft employee who left to start his own company that was acquired by Google, left Google to go back to Microsoft.  His opinions on the Google environment can be found in this online post.

It was an interesting read, primarily because I have heard so many good things about working at Google and while this does point out that most of that “good stuff” is true, it comes with some strings.  That is just life though, some of the perks are fairly cool.  Either way, it is a good read.

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Google Docs More Useful

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Michael Koby

Google Docs got a revamp today.  I have to say it looks nice.  Everything is so much more organized with this new look and feel of the main page.  The actual editing part looks pretty much the same, but with a new more organized landing page, you are sure to get more work done in Google Docs now.

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Google Docs & Spreadsheets is an online word processing and spreadsheet application.  It allows the easy sharing of documents with friends and family as well as allows multiple people to be editing the same document simultaneously.  It requires a fairly recent browser.

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Customizing Your Gnome Desktop: Gnome Panel

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Michael Koby

For the final part of our series on customizing your Linux Gnome desktop, we are going to look at the Gnome Panel. The Gnome Panel are the bars that hold your menu and window list. They can be made to hold other components as well. They can also be customized to blend into your desktop and by doing so they can really tie the whole look of the desktop together.

The great think about the panel inside of gnome is there are little applications (called applets) that are designed for the sole purpose of allowing you access to information that you might need on a consistent basis.

Lets get into the thick of it, shall we?

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links for 2007-06-26

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Michael Koby
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Anti-Homeschooling aka Ignorance is Bliss (I Guess)

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Michael Koby

I can always count on Digg to point me at something I can commentate on.  For this week’s commentary, I want to look at this diatribe against home schooling.

For starters, I was home schooled for my last three years of high school.  Three years before that, I was enrolled in small community based private school.  And to top it all off I was in public schools from elementary to middle school.  So I was actively involved in all three of the most popular forms of education.  I met people that I work with while home schooling.  I met my “life long” friend in middle school.  I still talk to people I went to elementary school with.

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