Jane Talks Tech!

Update: Photos from this year's SouthEast LinuxFest are up on my photography site, my Flickr page (Licensing on Flickr is cc-by-nd-sa) and Facebook page. Tag away! :)
It's that time of the year again. The Southeast LinuxFest of 2009 was my first Linux Conference and I enjoyed the experience so I decided to repeat it. :) Here's the Southeast LinuxFest Flickr pool of photos taken by various attendees from the Southeast LinuxFest 2009 and here are the photos I took of Southeast LinuxFest 2009. This year's Southeast LinuxFest is being held in South Carolina again (Spartanburg, ...

I'm way too enamored of Windows 7 to consider wiping it off and replacing it with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx. However, I'd read lots of good things about it and wanted to see/feel the changes firsthand. The next best solution for me was to install Ubuntu in SunOracle's VirtualBox software. I've always found VirtualBox friendly to use, but realize that that might not be the case for everyone. So, I created this long-ish video showing you how to install Ubuntu as a Virtual machine in VirtualBox from a .iso file. Ingredients for doing this:...

So, once again, it pays to twitter (TM). I happened to be online when Techsmith (@techsmith on Twitter) announced that they would be doing a 24-hour marathon about one of their flagship products, Snagit, with prizes to boot. I was immediately excited because I am familiar with Snagit and it's an absolute-must for anyone who blogs. Besides the allure of winning something, I was curious to get to know the marketing machine (@betsyweber is the chief evangelist) and developers behind the product. ...

Based on the scores of comments left on my series of Nokia E71x posts, there are people using this phone actively. I am no longer one of them. Reason: over 6 months ago, I cracked the screen (not the plastic covering, but what's underneath said plastic covering). I'm now an active ATT Tilt user albeit with a 'cooked' ROM from XDA Developer's forum). With that in mind, my instructions are 6 months old and your mileage may vary....

Here's hoping that this post will save someone the frustration I encountered in attempting to alter the print area on a 'wide' Excel spreadsheet. I work with a lot of text in Excel 2007 (inventories, etc) and this usually means I end up printing in landscape. However, default print settings can mean that not all the text seen on the spreadsheet will be on the first page of your printout. ...