EverNote and Ubuntu
One of the main applications that I use at work (windows) is EverNote 3. Its a fantastic not taking application similar to Microsoft’s OneNote that allows you to take notes and sync them to the web. EverNote has some great features but the only downside is the lack of support for Linux users.
There is no native EverNote client for Linux. I know that I could just use the EverNote web interface but its just not the same, and sometimes i’m out and about and don’t have a connection to the “cloud” (interwebby thingy)
Well today I installed Wine, a windows emulator for Linux. Although I do run VMware Workstation and have XP as a guest OS inside ubuntu I wanted to stick as closely to ubuntu as I could. So I installed Wine and downloaded the EverNote 3 distributable. In the terminal i ran,
Wine install home\ben\desktop\Evernote_3_0.0.652.exe
And that was it. Wine now loads in ubuntu and although its not perfect its good enough. Points that I have noticed.
- If you have a proxy connection to the internet then EverNote will not connect to your account and sync.
- The graphics on the EverNote application are not spot on (see image below)
- None of the shortcut eg CTRL + ALT + V work with Wine.
But apart from that things really are not that bad. So if you miss EverNote on your Linux machine then give it ago under wine.
Tags: evernote, notes, Ubuntu, Wine
Air Con - WooHoo
About a month ago my portable air conditioning unit broke, disaster! My small office is also the server room. In my office I have, 4 servers, 2 computers, a comms cab and me. So when the aircon broke it was a major issue. Well luckily my boss saw realised that the having the “servers” (he he) cooled was a big issue and allowed me to purchase a proper aircon system thats attached to the wall and everything (sarcasim)
Its been installed today and to be honest its great, much better than the old portable unit i had.
XDAsite
You may, or may not know that I actually run another (more successful) website for XDA users. An XDA is range of phones released by O2 which are re-badged HTC devices. These nearly all run Windows Mobile and like everything with Windows, things go wrong. So XDAsite helps other users overcome those problems.
The site is very popular and we have a great community on hand to answer and solve many questions. If you’re interested then take a look at XDAsite.
My First Step into Linux
I’ve been working with computers since I can remember and guess what…. they’ve all been windows boxes. My first OS was Windows 3.1 then it progressed to 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP and recently I’ve brought a new laptop which came with Vista. Now this laptop is a decent spec machine, Centrino Duo 2ghz, 2GB RAM which is plenty to run Vista, yet it still felt sluggish.. So 3 days ago I took the plunge and installed ubuntu for the very first time.
Now, I work in IT (network manager) so installing a new OS is nothing that phases me and ubuntu was no exception to that. Installation went fine, partitions setup ok, generally everything worked well. I was surprised that ubuntu 8.04 automatically found all my hardware, i didn’t have to install any drivers and everything just worked. I’ve now had a few days to customise and use the system and so far I’m really impressed.
Over the next few posts I’m going to detail how to install ubuntu and get it up and running to a similar standard to the screenshot below. Don’t get me wrong I’m no Linux guru, I’ve been using the system for 3 days but I’ve collected a lot of information from various sources that hopefully you will find usefull.
Tags: Ubuntu
New Blog
Welcome to the new blog. Just been promoted to network manager so i thought that it was about time that I blogged about something constructive.
I’ve also just found my way into linux and mainly Ubuntu so there will be a few posts about that around here.