Until about an hour ago, tonight’s Ubuntu experience was “meh”. I really couldn’t think of anything that I actually wanted to do. I then remembered that the pictures needed offloaded from our camera from Jessica’s baby shower. After a little wrestling with a bad cable connection (camera’s fault) I was greeted with a happy to import greeting from “f-spot”. For such a simple application it has some neat features including the ability to export as a gallery which I like to do from time to time. Here is a quick example. I do have to say, the photo management in f-spot is pretty good. I still went ahead and installed the Ubuntu package for Picasa. I use the web albums as a backup for any of my photos so it makes sense. It appears that all the features of the Windows version are in the Linux version as well so no lack luster there.
I’m still enjoying the simplicity of Rhythmbox as the music player. Connected to last.fm it plays much like Pandora does and I really like the popups to let me know what song/artist is playing.
Doing my everyday tasks (gmail, wordpress, etc.) really is not effected by the use of Ubuntu as they are all browser based. I upgraded my install of wordpress today and needed an application like WinSCP for Ubuntu. Turn’s out that it’s built in. NEAT… Go to “Places” –> “Connect to Server” then using SSH as the connection type I was given a file/folder manager access to my server via SFTP/SSH.
So far so good.
