Peng’s links for Tuesday, 5 August
Posted by Peng on 5 August 2008
- Jono Bacon: Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is born! Ubuntu comes with a package called example-content that shows off some of the kinds of content you can use in Ubuntu. But why not update the content and really show off what free culture artists are doing?
- Frank Taylor/Google Earth Blog: New Street Views in Australia and Japan in Google Earth and Maps. Google has a bunch of new imagery for Street View in Australia, Japan, and 30 new US cities, including New Orleans. I’ll have to check out my old stomping grounds to see what the Big Easy is looking like almost 20 years after I moved to Boston as well as post-Katrina. The announcement of new Street View content suggests Easter egg-type surprises, and I have to wonder if this is part of what they have in mind. Or maybe it’s just an extra goody.
- Adventures in Switching to Linux: My favorite useful Compiz features.
As sharks said when he posted a link to this article to the Ubuntu Forums, “it isn’t just about looking cool”. I love the Enhanced Zoom Desktop and use it pretty often, especially when sharing a picture or video with my roomies. I love the Shift Switcher and Expo, too. In fact I used Expo to create this picture of my desktop for the August 2008 Desktop Thread on the Ubuntu Forums.
- Barry Burbank/Beyond the Forecast: Perseid Meteor Shower. It’s that time of year again, and Barry has some info and a link for more info on the annual heavenly event.
