Some Productive Ubuntu Kung Fu

Book Excerpt: http://lifehacker.com/5067996/some-productive-ubuntu-kung-fu

Also in comments:

• "a good desktop blog editor" - suggestions:
  
  
  
  • OpenOffice.org with the Sun Weblog Publisher extension
    
  • ScribeFire extension for Firefox
    
  
  
• "a tip to make gnome fonts look *not* like that" - suggestion:
  
  
  
  • Open a terminal window and type sudo dpkg-reconfigure fonts-fontconfig Then choose the Native option in the menu, and log out and back in again.
    
  
  
• "Is there an app for the Mac that is like gnome-blog?" - suggestion:
  
  
  
  • http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/ I've never used it myself but I hear good things about it.
    
  
  
• "What about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/Plugins ?"