Sunday, October 28, 2007

Improving Skype Audio in Linux

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In a previous TechTip, we presented a few techniques that allow Windows users of Skype (a popular Web telephony service) to improve the quality of their audio. As with Windows, the quality of the calls under Linux widely varies. There are the ever present problems with echoes, sound delays, the sound dropping out, and problems like that.

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Friday, October 26, 2007

How To Explain Delicious To Family and Friends

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“The website del.icio.us (pronounced as “delicious") is a social bookmarketing web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks.  The site was founded by Joshua Schachter in late 2003, and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2005.” (Thank You Wikipedia)

Delicious is one of my favorite bookmarking tools for a number of reasons:

- It goes where I go!
- I have the ‘set it’ and ‘forget it’ mentality.....and of course go back later when I remember, and Delicious is the perfect tool that allows me this freedom.

For those people that struggle to explain social bookmarking to your family and friends, there’s now an awesome video for you courtesy of Commom Craft:

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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Is There a Wiki In Your Future?

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One of the most popular sites on the Web is undoubtedly Wikipedia . Thanks to the phenomenal popularity of this site, countless Web users have become aware of, and are taking advantage of, the sheer power and flexibility of wikis. Although wikis are primarily known as a tool of the techies, just about anyone can use them.

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Hardware Support on Linux

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GNU/Linux has come a long way since it was first introduced, including installation ease of use on Ubuntu that’s surpassing that of Microsoft’s, but it still has a few critics about its somewhat lacking hardware compatibility. The reason for this is because hardware manufacturers pay little attention to anything other than Windows regarding drivers. 

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