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Linux is in my repertoire, and I’m proud.

Well, before I get to the whole Linux deal, I might as well mention some changes to the website. If you look up, you’ll see a cool image, which I made. There are also minor improvements with the site, and I’m setting up forums (I may decide not to, but you can check them so far at forums.appsonroids.com. OK, now to the headline.

My family recently decided that our old laptop from several years ago, the WinXP era, was ready for demolition. We ordered a replacement laptop from Dell, and at some point I remembered my lifelong goal of owning a Linux machine. I specifically wanted Ubuntu, but a friend showed me Linux Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu with a nicer UI and some improvements like Flash so it works out of the box. I installed it, and my only complaint is the limits of this old laptop’s RAM and CPU. It’s one of those computers that has less than a gig of RAM, and whose CPU doesn’t even work well. But, Linux works better than the XP that was on it. And it looks great, a feat people rarely attribute to many Linux distros. Although I’m not a serious Linux user, at least not yet, and I only know one terminal command, (shutdown -h now), I’m pretty proud of myself. Too bad the web browsing isn’t great, due to the terrible RAM, and I couldn’t post this from it as a result.

Site Moved from blog.appsonroids.com to appsonroids.com

I’ve moved the site from the old subdomain to the main domain, added a redirect, and caused it to become a real website, instead of just a blog. The only thing that is really affected by this change besides the site itself (which is set up to redirect anyway) is the RSS feeds. Simply switch your RSS from blog.appsonroids.com/rssurlextensionhere to appsonroids.com/blog/wp-rss2.php

This should change it. You will still get RSS from the old one, but it’ll only give you changes to the home page, which isn’t very useful!

Static toolbar added

If you’re reading this on the website (and if you aren’t, do), then you probably notice this bar-thing along the bottom. No, this isn’t an ad. This is a new part of the website! :P If you want to share it on a social network, either hit the button that says Share This! On the bottom of each post, or hit the share button in the toolbar.

Enjoy!

Ads Added to Website

I just added an add (Whoops, typo) to the website. If you find it annoying, I can remove it. However, I’d like to experiment and see how it works. It doesn’t seem too bad, but just leave a comment and let me know how YOU feel about it.

Site Updates

Yup. I changed to using an iframe embed instead of plain text pages. I also added pictures that I have made (well more art, but you get the idea).

Enjoy

Back up!

I got it back up. I just had to replace my index.php with the old one (2.8.5’s version)

This is good.

I should be fixing the rest of the blog shortly.

P.S. – I’ve made a few additions to the website, namely Google Analytics. Hopefully working soon.