ZenWalk, Slackware Based Operating System

Installation

The first thing I notices when booting up was it’s not a linux live CD, considering I’m used to installing Kubuntu it’s a change from having to wait and I love it no need to wait around booting up a Linux distrobution from your possibly slow CD drive, you just get a simple installation screen, you might say its a bad thing as you don’t get the option to chat on ‘AIM’ or play your games while your installing. It would be nice to see Ubuntu to have the option to install straight off the CD but I can’t see it happening anytime soon unfortunately but its a great way to give people a simple demo before they install the OS.

POTW: Ultra VNC

Here I believe I’m targeting this article at the more advanced computer users, you may of heard of VNC before it stands for Virtual Network Computing in simple terms its basically a remote access client such as windows remote assistand from a personal point of view if I want to help someone with a problem using remote assistand is hell to work with.

So using a client like Ultra VNC or even Tight VNC it really makes life simple, for example a while back a community member of UVNC developed a great mod which is basicall a one click VNC server, so you can send a exe to your friend thats having computer trouble he runs it and pop you get screen showing their desktop brilliant right, saves you a lot trouble, and its a great way to avoid security issues with windows remote desktop, you will find these applications are much more secure as its not running constantly its a one off thing they open it and you close it.

Apple Ipod Touch Sexiest Ipod Out (itouch)

If you haven’t seen this or had a go you have to its one of the best ipods I have ever seen. The basic idea of this is to just have a screen displayed; no buttons on top, all you do is move your finger across the screen!

You know what amazes me though, I remember the old days of touch screen and frankly they where huge the monitors you could buy for your computer where very big and expensive, now you compare this with the itouch its astonishing how you can turn that into that its so small too hard to get my head around it!

The display looks amazing, if you own a iphone it’s a fairly similar look it display’s everything from the album art to the information from your mp3 file. Has many other options like display photos you have taken to even things like video files!

This is a amazing ipod or itouch should I say and is well worth buying in my opinion so go for it!

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Upgrade

I updated Adobe Photoshop CS 2 to CS 3 finally I have been waiting for this for a long time and it was a brilliant upgrade.

Finally they make it easy to see your design, this is my favorite feature in Photoshop, and basically as you have your panels open you can fix them down so your picture will not be able to go under the panels. This is brilliant in CS2 I was always moving the tools and layer panels.

For the money it costs to upgrade I can’t say it was worth it, in GBP its around £100 USD you can find it at $200 considering I brought the original for whopping $600 that is a lot and it doesn’t really earn me much back, brilliant for a hobby though.

Overall if you have CS 2 I say buy Adobe Photoshop CS3, I’ve always preached adobe software due to the fact they are brilliant!

I believe you can also use Adobe Photoshop on a USB flash drive using something like thinstall, I’ve also seen it on many torrent sites. Which I believe is illegal.

Leaving footprints online good or bad?

I think I’ll start off by asking if you have a myspace account (typical answer yes) this I find bad if you do not want to leave a footprint on the internet this is the place you do not want to leave one.

Let’s see who looks at your myspace pages, could your employers look in fact they do not they have found these places to be very truthful they will not look at your social sites like myspace, bebo and facebook. But a lot of the time you can actually use this to your advantage if you have completely crap qualifications you make these pages look like you know a thing or two you have a much better chance of getting in that your opponent that has posted pictures on their myspace from their drunken nights out, if you was employing someone which would you choose?

But the real question is what other ways could these be exploited and the actual fact is identity theft yeah these things are possible, so the issue is that if you are a member of many social sites leaving parts of your life on each like on one you have DOB the others locations maybe even a phone number. Even having these on different sites these can be linked together at the click of a button, but you might be wondering is how they would find these sites easily if you have an name then its easy. Now there are many ways to get around this like creating a fake name not completely legal but its better than using your real name if you are not the adventurous time then you can use a generator.