Tag: mac

  • Experimenting with Linux

    Experimenting with Linux

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning when I should have been working on the daily blog post I decided to install Ubuntu on an external hard drive to see if it still worked as I remembered it working. It does, sort of. There are two approaches. You could install Linux straight onto the internal HD of a…

  • Sliding Between MacOS, Windows and Linux Daily

    Sliding Between MacOS, Windows and Linux Daily

    Reading Time: 2 minutesRecently I have been sliding between Windows, Linux distributions and MacOS throughout the day. I use a mac for blogging, and Linux to experiment and learn new skills, and windows to watch Netflix and YouTube. I might be over-simplifying but that’s the simplified version. ## Pi and Linux I find that I…

  • An Alternate Way of Using Nextcloud

    An Alternate Way of Using Nextcloud

    Reading Time: 4 minutesSetting up a Raspberry Pi 4 with 2gb of memory to work as a Nextcloud server is quite easy. Download the right ISO from nextcloudpi.com, flash it, put the card into your pi device and after two or three more steps you have a local machine running Pi but you still need…

  • Picasa for Mac

    Reading Time: < 1 minutePicasa is now available for mac and it works well. It works so well it took just 30 seconds for me to crash the application. On a more serious note Picasa is an interesting application that auto indexes all of your pictures in the Pictures folder and indexes your images within…