Finally after many months of it being available I am able to sit down and install the latest version of Fedora, not Fedora Core, simply Fedora. The Fedora group decided to ditch the "Core" and "Extras" versions of Fedora and focus their attention on one version. I...
Last month (May 2007) I wrote a blog entry about Aperture. At the time I was house sitting for my sister who had just got a new iMac. When I came home I was disappointed that I didn't have a similar application to use for working on my photos. Last fall I had played...
On Monday morning my 17" LCD monitor decided to kick the bucket. I guess it was time for it to go out, the 3 year warranty expired in January so that's usually when things go out. Since then I've been using my iBook a lot more because it has a brighter display than...
Last night I was chatting with my friend Steve and he mentioned that I should install the Aperture trial. I thought it was a great idea so I did and here are my "first look" thoughts. When you first start up the application you have several options to get started. You...
If you've ever wanted to try out Linux and you're a PC user. Now you can and you don't even have to worry about destroying your Windows installation and the best part of it is that you don't even have to set up a separate partition for it. There are no longer any...
I only learned about this product a few weeks ago. This is the only virtualization product that is currently available for Windows, Linux and Mac hosts that is also free and open source. It's developed by a very large community and is backed by InnoTek. Products like...
You're probably asking yourself: "Is he really reviewing another virtualization product?" Yeah, I am. I guess it's a virtualization review special on TechButter. Like I mentioned in the previous article I am reviewing these products because I am unable to run them on...
NOTE: Please see the end of this entry for updated information about this product and what has changed in this article since the original posting. I finally have the opportunity to try out VMware Fusion. I am staying at a house this week for a family member who just...
I was on the OLPC Wiki and realized that I could download a Live CD of the latest version of the OLPC operating system. The OLPC is based on the RedHat operating system (not Fedora). I downloaded it and ran it in a virtual machine. Here are my initial reactions. When...
Over the weekend I had a great opportunity to help someone move from TypePad to WordPress running on their web hosting account. The reason the person wanted to do this is because they were no longer going to continue paying for their TyePad account. Understandable...