Daniel Maclean

In an effort to try and streamline the blogging process I checked out some blogging software for the Mac. I came across two of the mains ones which seemed to fit the bill but all with there pro’s and con’s. MacJournal Very easy to use and simple native interface will all the bells & whistles you’d expect. It acts more like a standalone journal first though and a blog management tool second. It can download previous posts but doesn’t seem to have two way synchronisation (at least with blogger the only blog I tested) e.g. I noticed some of my posts were missing tags, thought it would be good to add them now, not happening as it turns out. All in all nice journal editor for offline editing but lack of two way synchronisation disappoints. And it's not free. I wouldn't recommend MacJournal. http://www.marinersoftware.com/sitepage.php?page=85 Mars Edit Very impressed with the range of features and quickly became my favourite. Some of the features included are flickr...

Imagine my surprise when after completely giving up on streaming video's/music/photos to my Samsung TV (due to the Windows only software supplied with the TV being unreliable and slow) that Vuze, the torrent client, suddenly supports this very function. Turns out that the developers actually have a similar model in there office and added support for it just because :-) Excellent stuff guys! And what is even better about this is the support for doing this from Mac OS X and Linux too :-) :-). I've tested this on Leapord and Snow Leapord for the Mac as well as Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. All work perfectly although the Device menu is missing from Vuze on Ubuntu. The developers have said this is due to it not being supported yet, which is fair enough. I think by default all files are shared anyway... To be honest, I played around with that many settings, I may have enabled it without realising it... http://www.vuze.com/features/device Now Vuze is lacking a few features which...

Ok... since it seems #Google indexes this blog more often than my blog below i'm moving it back! So as a result i've given it a overhaul with a nice theme I found on btemplates.com. The original needed some tweaks and i've added some short cuts above to other social sites I use. So to get this blog rolling again, i've decided to continue one of the previous series of posts that followed the ever evolving task of customizing a Ubuntu desktop. Lots has changed since my previous posts including the applications used. Now using Gnome-Do for the dock, Screenlets for the widgets/gadgets and Chrome as my browser. Here's a nice screenshot to entertain:

I've been quite busy with my studying lately so been unable to checkout any new wallpapers or themes. However I did come across a set of wallpapers I downloaded weeks ago and never used. Here are a few screenshots for your enjoyment:

Going to try and make a regular screenshot update of my desktop as desktop modding is a hobby of mine. Will give sources of artwork if requested. This is of course my Ubuntu Edgy Eft system running Gnome and Beryl.