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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: MiniReview of Linkman URL Organizer and Search Tool
« Last post by Lutz_ on November 23, 2008, 11:19 AM »Looking good ! a very helpful video.
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Out of curiosity, does anybody know of a good standalone bookmark manager? Preferably a portable app that could also export its list as a tab-delimited or CSV file rather than a html page?-40hz (November 11, 2008, 09:46 AM)
Well, I do not expect too much support for a free product.
Mandriva has great forums (certainly other distros too). The positive aspects from my Mandriva experiences were:
- everything just worked with my two-year old inspiron notebook (no drivers to search); there were even NO niggles like unability to to turn the sound up louder or the need to adjust the screen brightness at every startup (which I experienced with the other distros on my hardware).
- the guys on the Mandriva forums are capable and willing to communicate in a not-so-geeky way.
Obviously I am not a power user;so I do not know what I could be missing (the Mandriva out-of-the-box look is somehow not the freshest).
- Fonts are easy to install (w/o command line involvement)sorry : poor wording on my part -- also it's probably less true today (than 3-4 years ago). What I wanted to convey (maybe wrongly) is that free support for Mandriva free/one is (IMO) not as good as the support for Ubuntu and that one might have to pay for the special packs for extra support and software. But what's your opinion on the matter ?-Armando (October 25, 2008, 11:45 PM)-Lutz_ (October 26, 2008, 11:31 PM)
sorry : poor wording on my part -- also it's probably less true today (than 3-4 years ago). What I wanted to convey (maybe wrongly) is that free support for Mandriva free/one is (IMO) not as good as the support for Ubuntu and that one might have to pay for the special packs for extra support and software. But what's your opinion on the matter ?-Armando (October 25, 2008, 11:45 PM)
.... and others love Mandriva (beware though : might cost you more in the long run!)Why would that be?
J-Mac - I have used both PSP (up to v. 9, I had v. 10 but unistalled it almost instantly) and PhotoShop and I really don't think the learning curve between the two apps is that much different.
The great advantage of Photoshop (apart from being a fantastic app) is the huge number of free tutorials on the internet, loads of sites dedicated to Photoshop, thousands of books on the subject and courses galore. It is expensive but you can get it cheaply by registering as student at a recognised institution (it doesn't have to be long term or full time - just an evening class will do at a recognised college - find a photoshop class!. Do check the local conditions at adobe.com by going to the academic shop for your country) and then buy the academic edition which is identical to the commercial product.-Carol Haynes (September 13, 2008, 05:36 AM)
Could you point out where the overview excels? I'm not disagreeing with you but I just can't see it. ......-Paul Keith (September 11, 2008, 12:49 AM)
Nothing fancy:No offense Lutz_ but that made my eyes hurt but dark backgrounds are just a no no for me.
a simple, elegant and space-saving design. In contrast to the standard boxy approach which is overloaded with features. Nothing against all the features and new features, but they have to be designed , hidden, properly to make them tolerable to the eye.
The by far best design in this regard is still the one from dpreview and this is 5 years old or even older.
http://www.dpreview.com/forums/-Lutz_ (September 08, 2008, 11:00 AM)-Paul Keith (September 08, 2008, 10:18 PM)