cdriga's blog on IT & Open Source

Exploring the new Google Plus service (Google+) these days. While still in testing phase, the service seems promising both as a virtual place for having fun and to hangout with your buddies, but especially as a tool for business. The internet and social media especially have challenged businesses to become more personal in their relationship with the general public and also with the clients. While in the already classical social media sites like Facebook one had to separate business accounts from personal accounts, Google brings in a new approach – separating personal from business in one single account. I am summarizing below my findings from the first two days of testing this service which I find very promising…

At some point I needed for testing purposes to run various live Linux distributions prior to deciding which one to install on a certain computer. Reasons for that can be various – starting from the testing how it performs (my reason) on various computers/hardware prior to installing a certain distribution and ending to having certain…

I’ve been willing to write about this for some time and now I got a spare moment to share this with you: As you know, I am an Ubuntu user. I am using it on a Asus EEEPC 1000H netbook with hard-drive and 2Gb RAM and since I started using this OS I’ve always had…

In the series of discovering new software while trying out a new version of Ubuntu I want to tell you in this post about a customization tool for Ubuntu Linux operating system that I discovered today: Ubuntu Tweak. By downloading the DEB file and double-clicking on it to install the application, you’ve got yourself a…