Monthly Archives: August 2009

Screencasting To A Script

By popey | Published: August 27, 2009
Following on from my previous blog post about Getting Back Into Screencasting I’ve put another one together. There’s been some really interesting discussion on Ian Ozsvalds Screencasting Handbook group about the methods people use for screencasting, and I’ve used a couple of ideas here. As part of my experimentation, I made some changes, but a [...]
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Trust In Remote Support

By popey | Published: August 26, 2009
Recently in the Ubuntu-UK LoCo team IRC channel we had a new user arrive with a problem on their Ubuntu computer. Nothing new there, it happens every day, but the way the problem was solved was slightly different than the way we usually do it. I’m looking for feedback on this. Emma told us that [...]
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Getting Back Into Screencasting

By popey | Published: August 25, 2009
After a very log hiatus I’m getting back into doing screencasting. It’s been far too long, and the restart has been at least in part been prompted by a bug report and the encouragement of a couple of great women in the Ubuntu community. The first one I’ve done is very simple and just covers [...]
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Come to OggCamp

By popey | Published: August 25, 2009
What: OggCamp When: Sunday 25th October 2009 Where: Wolverhampton, UK Who: Ubuntu UK Podcast and Linux Outlaws Why: Hangover cure for LUGRadio Live 2009 Want to know more? Click the button.
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Acer Aspire Revo, Ubuntu, Boxee and Remote Control

By popey | Published: August 6, 2009
On the latest episode of the podcast I briefly mentioned that I’d recently bought an Acer Aspire Revo to use as an Ubuntu based media player. Well, I’ve installed Ubuntu and Boxee on it, and it plays back all kinds of video including 720p and 1080p HD video via the HDMI port. The box is [...]
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