Gustible - under the rubric of [$_SELF]

The Ubuntu distro package contains an excellent photo viewer application – since the Maverick release this application is Shotwell, replacing the earlier F-Spot. Shotwell is a great application – but I came across a rare and extremely annoying problem – under certain circumstances, involving removable media, the application would lose the “events” to which your [...]

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I’ve finally had it with Ubuntu’s default email client. Since I installed Karmic 9.10, I’ve been determined not to have to run Microsoft Outlook in a virtual machine simply to get e-mail. The only Ubuntu mail client with built-in support is Evolution. And it is a singularly shit piece of software.

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