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Giving People Ubuntu Envy

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 22, 2007

“In doing the presentation, I was–as Cebuanos would put
it–‘igat.’ I don’t know the precise English translation for ‘igat’
but it carries shades of meaning of the words ‘flirt’ and
‘showoff.’ I think I caught a ‘wow’ when I rotated the desktop to
shift from my Impress slide to my demo workspace, which had Firefox
opening my local server.

“I was unrelenting in the seduction, burn effects in minimizing
windows (darn, I discovered shading windows late), making windows
wobble, using the Mac-like function to expose all open windows (as
if I didn’t know where the other windows were) and the full Beryl
arsenal…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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