Tag: technology
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LinuxMint: Run Two Instances of Firefox Simultaneously (for Zotero)
Advanced users of Zotero, the amazing, free bibliography management software, may have run into the problem that you have two separate Zotero databases and want to access them at the same time. I used to manage multiple databases simultaneously by using a really cool Firefox extension: Foxtester. Alas, that extension is no longer working with…
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Linuxmint or Ubuntu: Crashplan backup using headless Synology NAS
If you’re using a Synology NAS box and would like to back up your files to offsite storage service Crashplan (which is relatively inexpensive), there is a relatively easy way to do this. However, you need to think about the Crashplan software as having two components. There is the backup engine, or the software that communicates…
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LinuxMint or Ubuntu: How to Automount Synology Shares
UPDATE: As of Ubuntu 13.04, these directions no longer work. I figured out a way to get this to work, however. See the updated directions at the bottom of this post. ——————Old Directions———————————— If you’d like to share your network attached storage from a Synology file server with your Linuxmint or Ubuntu machine and have…
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LinuxMint or Ubuntu: Automount Server Share
(Updated to reflect changes in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – 5/15/2012) While I’m still not 100% sure how I got my file server to share all the files across the network (whatever I did, it worked; when the server dies, I’ll figure it out and post it here). Regardless, I recently reformatted my desktop and had…
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LinuxMint: Keyboard Shortcuts to Move Windows Between Monitors
If you don’t have multiple monitors hooked up to your desktop computer, you’re really missing out. Having dual monitors is a delight when it comes to being able to see more than one window and work even faster. And to make the experience even more enjoyable, Ubuntu variants of Linux, including LinuxMint, my new Linux…
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Utah Trip – December 29th
We were supposed to go up to Ogden to meet with some of my childhood friends, but a massive afternoon snow storm that dumped about 10 inches of snow on West Jordan postponed that trip. Instead I spent the day working on Rosemary’s computer and otherwise not getting much done. As far as Rosemary’s computer…
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Ubuntu: two versions of Firefox at once
Ever since I switched to Linux I’ve been toying with running two versions of Firefox simultaneously, even though I now use Google Chrome as my primary browser. Why two versions of Firefox, you ask? It’s kind of complicated, but it boils down to: I use Zotero for my bibliographic management software but I have too…
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Ubuntu: keyboard shortcut to switch mouse orientation
In order to minimize the risk of repetitive stress injuries, I have learned to use computer mice ambidextrously – I can do it either right or left-handed without any problems. However, it’s a little more difficult to do it left-handed on my laptop. And since I dock my laptop in my office to use an…
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Ubuntu: Adequate OCR for free on Linux
Even though I have mostly switched from Windows to Linux, I do have to emulate Windows for a few things just because the software for Linux either isn’t very good, doesn’t work, or in one case I haven’t learned it (R rather than SPSS). One of the reasons I would run Windows over Linux was…
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Android: An e-book reader that copies, pastes, and highlights text
As my regular readers know, Debi and I recently bought new cellphones that run the Android operating system. For about three years before that, we were running an old Windows Mobile OS (I think version 5). On our old phones, I had installed an ebook reader that allowed me to copy and paste text from…