With a couple of big name developers announcing that they are making the swicth from OSX to Ubuntu, it might be time to give this Linux flavour of the day a try. While you’re on your journey, you should check out this article that will show you How to install ANYTHING in Ubuntu!

A hilarious chart explains the Time Breakdown of Modern Web Designers. Have you been there yourself? I have!

[link via Dustin Diaz]

Here is a great way to get started with Ruby on Rails Developement. The Rails Live CD is a live Linux distribution (based on Mandrake) that includes everything you need to get started with Rails. Some preinstalled goodness:

• Ruby 1.8.4
• Rails 1.1.2
• Mongrel 0.3.13
• Rake 0.7.1
• Subversion
• MySQL 4.1.12
• MySQL Administrator

RadRails

By nature, AJAX based web applications are not bookmarkable nor do they recover well from user initiated back and forward button clicks.Really Simple History (RSH) framework makes it easy for AJAX applications to incorporate bookmarking and back and button support.

The Notbook Review has a very thourough review of both Boot Camp or Parallels. The article will surely give you enough information to determing which way is the best way for you to run Windows on an Intel Apple.

From my perspective, I removed BootCamp from my MacBook Pro about a month ago. Parallels is a very impressive piece of virtualizaion software.

GraphicAid is a slick web application designed to help flickr photographers publicize and increase their popularity. This open gallery is inspired by digg.com where browser on the site can vote on which galleries they like the best.

Sidenote: Herman Leung, the devloper of this site is a recent graduate of the Digital Media Technologies program and is currently looking for work!

Are you a World Cup fanatic? Looking for the best way to follow all the games on your computer? Here is my list of the top 5 ways to follow all the action!

Soccer Scoreboard from Microsoft

This small Windows application will show you the score of the current match, a schedule of upcoming matches, and the current standings.

Germany 2006 1.1 for OSX

Is an application for managing the World Cup Germany 2006. With this program you can view the match schedule, save the final score, show both groups and second stage table, build statistics and you can also update the results on-line.

FootieFox

This extension for the Firefox web browser that will sit in your Firefox status bar and displays the score of the current game. You can view all matches by clicking on the icon. You can configure visual or audio notifications when your favorite team (Portugal) scores a goal.

FIFA World Cup 2006 Schedule 1.0 Dashboard Widget

The Apple Dashboard offerings are pretty weak, but this entry shows only the schedule for upcoming games.

FIFAworldcup.com by Yahoo!

Any of the 32 participating teams can be selected to give you news, photos and match information specific to that team. An updating schedule shows you the times and scores of games from the first kick to the final goal, and when your team is on the pitch, you’ll get live scores and access to MatchCast for even more information!

Go Portugal!

UltraVNC SingleClick looks like a very useful “helpdesk” tool. It is a scaled down version of UltraVNC that allows you to remote control another computer. UltraVNC SC does not require installation and does not make use of the registry. The end-user only has to download a little executable and double-click to make a connection to your site which is specified when you change a configuration file in the SC zip file that you provide for the client to download.

I work with a colleague who has an excellent background in print design, so I’m very lucky to have a great resource sitting in the same room. However, if you’re a web designer with little print experience and not lucky enough to have access to a print designer, you should check out Mark Boulton’s excellent Web designer’s guide to print design series.

The Better Web Posse is back and better than ever, with our next meeting Thursday, June 15! Hosted at one of the hottest web firms in Victoria BC, Number 41 Media (google map). Get the details at www.betterwebposse.com

How to tell if you’re Posse stuff:

1. You are an uber geek who needs to learn and bond with his/her kin
2. You work with uber geeks and want to learn and bond with them
3. You’re not sure what uber is, but you work in web and this “posse” thing sounds interesting.

If you answered “yes” to any one of those, consider yourself “checked-in”!

Hope to see you all there!