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I don’t know if I’ve mentioned TiddlyWiki before, But I have just recently done some desktop spring cleaning. And found my TiddlyWiki to be a great assistant. It runs right in the browser and is the best note taking/making method I’ve found so far. And believe you me, I’ve tried a lot of them.

Most of your note making programs have major draw backs.

Frist and biggest draw back is portability, You make a note on one PC and there it stays. With TiddlyWiki it’s just a small html file which you can store on a thumb drive, which makes it available on all you PCs.

Second and next to the biggest draw back is related. Backing up your notes. Or restoring your notes. Most note software I’ve seen and used stores the notes in strange hard to find places and formats, Once again a TiddlyWiki is just one html file where you put it.

Third draw back is custom-ability, TiddlyWiki is very customizable, They have a lot of templates each can be changed to suit your needs, with little or no former experience. I found that, I like to use two or three different ones, but that isn’t really a must.

TiddlyWiki has one weak point, because it’s just one file, if you have hundreds or thousands of large notes, it can get blotted. But notes aren’t supposed to be that big. Or that numerous. Although some TiddlyWikies on the web have quite a lot of content to them.

I don’t use the TiddlyWiki on the web, but some have done so. It’s just my choice to use them private on my thumb drive. They put all my notes at my finger tips on which ever PC I set down to. For those of you which are interested here is some more related links to help you out with your new TiddlyWiki experiance.

A TiddlyWiki Help File For Beginners.

TiddlyTools presents Technologies, Techniques, Tricks, Tips, Tweaks and Tutorials for TiddlyWiki readers, authors and developers, using a combination of plugins, macros, scripts, templates, and stylesheets by Eric L Shulman/ELS Design Studios.

TiddlyVault
is a comprehensive collection of plugins, macros, and other extensions available to enhance your TiddlyWiki experience. It is a sequel of sorts to a tutorial ( Tiddlywiki for the rest of us http://www.giffmex.org/twfortherestofus.html ) and also to ( TiddlyWiki in Action http://giffmex.tiddlyspot.com/ ), a showcase of others’ TiddlyWikis from around the world.

Happy Tiddling!

I installed Ubuntu 10.04 with some expectation of an undesirable desktop. I had heard about the changes that was made to it, such as the buttons being moved to the top left corner of the windows. It seems that the apple fan boys in the community have enough clout to get that done so as Ubuntu looks and feels more apple like.

Since I’ve never used Apple products I wasn’t in the mode for such a major change. But it wasn’t such a bad problem. it is quit easy to change it back, there are three basic ways to do that.

Some are easier than others, The easiest way is go to perferences>apperence and just pick another theme. Some themes support the left corner buttons, and some still have the right corner buttons.

The next easiest method is to issue a command in the terminal. # gconftool-2 –set “/apps/metacity/general/button_layout” –type string “:maximize,minimize,close”

The most geeky method is as follows.

Press ALT+F2 and type: gconf-editor, Navigate to apps -> metacity -> general, Right-click on the button_layout key and select Edit Key, Change the Value field to: :minimize,maximize,close – the leading colon is important.

When you click OK, the buttons will leap back to the right-hand side of the window.

I hope that helps someone reset their new Ubuntu 10.04 Apple look, to a good old fashioned X button pattern.

I had to get a new cell phone the other day. And was rather disappointed, because I had to totally relearn the OS. Now bear in mind this was a Nokia to Nokia. Nether were smart phones. Just an ordinary flip open phone. The Software is totally different, and even the buttons on the key board have been moved to different positions.

We are always discussing, “Is Linus ready for the masses?” After my cell phone experience, I ask myself, “If the masses except each phone upgrade having a different OS, and the keyboard being changed often to, then why are PCs different? Why do the vendors say the masses won’t except change?”

I believe if the vendors would support Linux then the masses would except it. People really don’t care or understand the OS, what they do understand is support, if the vendor doesn’t support Linux then the masses will never want Linux,

Not because they understand what Linux is, it’s because they understand support, They are left out in the cold when they choice Linux.

Cell phones prove my point, the OS really isn’t that important. What’s important is, Can I install all my hardware? Can I install all the software to get my work done? Does is just work?