Full Circle issue 6: Website of the Month
The aim of this section is to find decent and relatively unknown websites that will help you with your daily Ubuntu needs (and general curiosity). I will sum up the good and the bad points of the website, and -- with any luck -- the website owner will read the article and then rectify any problems mentioned!
Written by Daniel Cohen
This month's website is somewhat different than the previous websites. But that isn't a bad thing. Ubuntu-tutorials is a blog done by someone which gives daily tips or how-tos.
So each day you get a new tip on how to do something. Much of the time it won't be needed by you, but often you can find little tweaks that can save time or just generally improve your Ubuntu experience.
Blogs that use various tools online to make them all have a familiar layout, and this site is no exception. To accompany the nice layout is a good neutral theme which is easy on the eyes and makes everything look very clear. Entries are organized on the left-hand side in various categories which allows you to find old posts that are in categories relevant to you. It also sorts them out into monthly archives and has the latest ten on that side as to make it easy for you to find them instead of having to scroll down for a long time.
The best part about this website is that there is an RSS feed. I won't go over what it is but I will say that it is what makes this website so good. Even with all of the organized categories and archives, it would still be a pain to go there everyday to check up that day's how-to, only to are not interested and have just wasted your time. With the RSS feed it conveniently allows you to have it alongside all of your other daily feeds (Slashdot, Sky, BBC etc.), and so can see the headline of the latest tip without having to use your browser.
Even if you only get an interesting article every few weeks – because there is so little effort needed to use these resources, you may as well.
