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Have you ever heard of StumbleUpon?
StumbleUpon is one of the most powerful Firefox plug-ins I have ever used and is “recommended” by the Mozilla team. Basically it is a toolbar add-on for Firefox which allows you to “stumble” through the Internet. Well, not quite the Internet but something even better: a subset of the Internet grouped into categories that users [...]
Custom colors for emacs
All nerds know about the epic geek battle between vim and emacs, the two most popular text editors for Unix and Unix-like systems (i.e. Linux, because calling “Linux” without the prefix “GNU” pisses Richard Stallman off so much, I will never call Linux GNU/Linux. That guy has got to learn when enough is enough.) Anyway, [...]
Tutorial: Using Amarok with your Windows music library
If you want to read about how to play files on Windows in Linux through Amarok and skip the below comments on Linux on the desktop, go right ahead.
As my last post indicated, I recently updated my Kubuntu Linux to version 9.04. Kubuntu boots alongside Windows Vista and I use each operating system for certain [...]
Django App development on a newly updated Kubuntu 9.04
Django app development on Kubuntu 9.04
(Click image for a huge screenshot of some development tools running atop a fresh, new Kubuntu 9.04)
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“Plain old desktop”
(So much better than Windows. Prettier, too, no?)
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(p.p.s. notice it’s 88 in Boston — falkin hawt ked)
Keep your computer in shape with DriverMax
Often times when helping others with their computer issues, the first thing I notice is that their device drivers are old. This can be a serious problem these days with the stream of devices that connect to your computer these days through wires and over the air. Device drivers (this explanation is very simple, read [...]
My favorite software
In general, I like to use software that is free. Free in the sense that I have access to the source code and am able to modify use it as I please and free as in not costing any money. My attitudes towards free software can best be summed up by my choice in licensing: [...]
