Find Ubuntu software with GetDeb

Looking for an Ubuntu app that isn’t in the synaptic repositories? Maybe you found it, but you don’t want to manually install it, or worse, compile it from source. If so, GetDeb is an Ubuntu software portal like filehippo that is full of lovely, easy to install .deb files. Also, GetDeb allows less experienced users to use the latest software versions. The site explains:

The current Ubuntu official packages update policy is limited to critical bug fixes, meaning after each release there will be no regular bug fixes or improvement updates. This a good practice for stability purposes specially if you are planning to do an enterprise level support but it also means that until the next release you will not be able to get the latest and greatest software versions for your system.

This policy is also a limitation for the emerging applications which will not be available on the official repositories and consequently not getting the proper recognition, something that they can get by being easily available to the end users.

This is great way to find and install apps that you might not otherwise know about.

The one piece of software that will never let you down

Designer Bernard Belanger has come up with a wonderful piece of software whose purpose is to do nothing, and do it well. It’s called NaDa. Conceived in 2003, NaDa is now on version 0.5 and is a free, 1b download for all platforms.

NaDa

OK, Pre-Alpha Here…

This is the first post. If you are reading this, congratulations, you’re likely my first hit.

This blog is my attempt at a blog, I don’t know whether or not I will actually be able to keep it up or not, but we’ll see how things go and if I’m actually able to blog.

It’s basically a tech blog, so if you’re here and you thought this was something else, stay, you might find something interesting to help you in whatever you’re doing, or you might be slightly amused. In an exponentially fast-growing world, technology is playing an ever increasing role, while at the same time computers are becoming more and more like “magic boxes.” This blog will not only try to create a better understanding of what is inside of the box, but more importantly , that a computer doesn’t have to be a box.

tricks, hacks, some news, some lulz, and the back door life, of tech.