Tag: ubuntu
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Using Apple Magic mouse with Ubuntu sometimes causes unwanted behaviours
One of the main annoyances with my new Ubuntu machine is not so much the fault of Ubuntu, or the Dell hardware – but the lack of a decent pointing device. As much as I complained originally, I like my Apple Magic Mouse. My muscle memory has formed, ergonomically it’s (reasonably) comfortable. So annoying! The…
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Can’t extract rar files on Ubuntu?
I’m trying to extract a RAR file (a type of compressed file) on my new Ubuntu machine. I use the built-in archive manager application and keep getting this error message: Originally I thought it was a problem with the file (maybe corrupt), but after doing some DuckDuckGo’ing I found a…
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Useful Gnome extensions for UX professionals
As I wrote before, I’m conducting an experiment of working with only Open Source software in my day-to-day User Centred Design profession. One of the good things with OS X software was the abundance of useful, single use applications which helped in work. Using Linux, this shouldn’t be impossible to achieve either. The flavour of…