Staring at glass…

I’ve been thinking about Ubuntu, with Natty Narwhal releasing in a couple days, and all the flutter about Unity.  I don’t think I’m deep enough in it to have an opinion.  But I do have what I think is a fairly straight-forward idea.  It certainly wouldn’t heal any wounds, but it might make it clearer for some.

There’s Ubuntu, and Kubuntu, and Lubuntu, and Xubuntu…well if Ubuntu (see the “U”?) uses Unity, then why can’t Gubuntu use Gnome?  Huh?  Just spin up another distro?

OK.  Maybe it’s not a great idea.  But it sticks with the theme, doesn’t it?

I follow a couple of web startup feeds like KillerStartups.com, and am continually amazed at the constant stream of new web sites. Now, to be fair, there are some duplicates, and there are a lot of similar themed ones that make you wonder if they’re for some college course somewhere.  And the themes seem to go in waves, and one of those waves a couple months ago was lists and to-do apps, and I found one worth trying.  In fact, I’m still using it, and it contiues to get better.

Now this is a simple and fast tool.  The way I like it.  There’s no extra junk to distract the eye. It has keyboard shortcuts for pretty much everything, which can really speed it up (once you remember what does what).  But there’s not too much functionality.  It’s a list, and it does it well.

They’ve expanded the use to mobile devices, via a browser.  I’ve used it on my iPad and my Android phone.  While the mobile version doesn’t let you do everything the full version does, it’s more than adequate if you’re dropped into a meeting, or at the grocery store.

There may be one thing I’d like to see added: the ability to highlight or to change the color of a certain list item.  That would be cool.

Take a look.