Many things to come…
I was recently visited by a few very friendly e-mails from someone who has been quite taken by my blog. I don’t know if it’s the layout I selected, the Ubuntu tutorials I have scattered about or the clever reference to the pineal gland in the subtitle… nevertheless, they demand I write more! They even gave me a list of things to write about so I don’t have to spend time brainstorming topics that may or may not be interesting.
So that I don’t spend too much time writing this particular announcement, here’s a list of topics I intend to write about in the very near future:
- Terminal for Beginners
- We’re going to take a look at the Terminal in Linux. This is very similar to the Command Prompt found in DOS/Windows. We’ll take a look at some of the most common commands used here, as well as some neat tricks and shortcuts you might fall in love with.
- Customizing Ubuntu’s Appearance
- This is actually a topic that I said I wanted to do quite a while ago, but kind of let things slip. In this topic, we’re going to take a look at gnome-look.org’s collection of desktop themes, as well as look at ways to change your login screens’ appearance.
- Ubuntu Application Reviews
- For the first time ever, I’m going to begin writing reviews about different applications found in Ubuntu. My hope is to bring attention to applications that are good, but not very well known yet.
- Gimp Tutorials
- Gimp is an open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop which is actually quite a powerful tool for being free. I use it to create or modify all of the graphics on my website as well as promo images that you probably haven’t seen before. We’ll take a look at simple things like cropping, scaling, rotation, a LOT of the tools in the tool box, a few filters, and whatever else pops up along the way. It’ll be a lot of fun!
- Web Design Tips
- I often get compliments about my website’s clean looking design. I have to admit that a majority of the site was the result of a template that I stole out of Dreamweaver, but all of the work I’ve put into it since then has turned it into something very uniquely mine. In at least one blog, I will write some tips for web design based upon the things I think my website does right (as well as a few things I think my site does wrong).
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Stay tuned.