Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

How many times have you heard people say that they need to keep a Windows PC around because they need it to do Quicken? I've heard it often. In fact, I'm one of those people, but I do not know for how much longer since I installed the ve... [More]

I recently came to the conclusion that I was spending too much time at the Linux Terminal command line navigating to my Rails Projects and knew there had to be a better way.  All of my projects have the path /mintland/webapps/[PROJECT]. Given that al... [More]

After moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux I discovered that I now think more in terms of efficiency, of using the power of Linux to get the job done better and faster.  Most of us Linux geeks seem to always have a terminal window or two open, whic... [More]

If you're like me you find yourself using cloud storage more and more.  Most cloud services like the two I use most often, Dropbox and Ubuntu One, tell us that our documents are secure and I believe them.  But I've been around long enough to kno... [More]

Like most of us, my work is divided between a laptop and a PC and I use cloud services like Dropbox and Ubuntu One to share data between them.  Grsync and Rsync takes data sharing to the next level, giving me the ability to synchron... [More]

If you're like me you produce a lot of screenshots and want to highlight regions with a circle, like so. Except that's just plain ugly if you're doing it in Gimp. I've used numerous graphics design packages on multiple platforms over the year... [More]

As I recent Linux convert I am learning how to make the most of Gimp after years of using Photoshop, Paint.NET and the Snagit Image Editor in Windows. Gimp is a very capable graphics editing application, but it takes a bit of warming up ... [More]

First of all I bet you didn't know the Chrome History data was stored in a database on your hard drive. Interesting, eh? Here's how to get at it from a linux user's perspective. So everyone knows what we're talking about, your Chro... [More]

If you're starting your Ruby on Rails adventure and learning the ropes you'll probably want to be able to quickly create new Rails applications in virtual directories on a single apache development site.  http://devsite/app1 http://devsite/app... [More]

Hey, a Package Control to make it super easy to install packages in Sublime Text!  Who doesn't want that?  It's the first package you probably want to install in Sublime Text. Here's Package Control in action. Here's the definitive guide fro... [More]