Gnome’s file manager Nautilus does a great job of automatically thumbnailing all kinds of files including pretty much any video file.
But, in a fresh Arch Linux install you still need a few gstreamer packages to enable totem-video-thumbnailer to do its job…
Viigo has some great features and all but for simple RSS reading on my BlackBerry Google Reader Mobile beats the crap out of Viigo.
So far jEdit is proving to be a great editor (FTP/SFTP support is great) but after tweaking it to my liking (BufferTabs plugin, fonts, etc.) I noticed that scrolling the main text area had become very slow. I didn’t want to just blame Java so I looked it up and found the cause.
So even Windows lets you disable the Recent Documents feature, but for some reason Gnome really wants to remember what files you’ve been messing with. Personally I never use this menu item (usually under Places in the Gnome Main Menu) and find it to be a bit of a privacy concern.
Surprisingly enough there are no [...]
So when I first got my Black Asus Eee PC 4G xmas ‘07 I pretty much freaked out about all the possibilities but ended up installing my distro of choice, Arch Linux and all the Eee specific hardware support, then it kinda sat… and sat, until. I recently decided to review the current [...]
I’ve been doing a few reinstalls on my workstation boxes lately so I put together this list to save myself some time. This will change as I remember/find stuff.
So everyone trashed on KDE 4.0, I’ll admit I wasn’t impressed either, until I read the articles explaining that this is more of a milestone release – getting the core together, and that future releases will be something worth getting excited about.
Something feels a little off, but it’s not bad.
macfox II – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3174
macfox II Graphite – https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3430
Yet another clean little tweak.
I came across this cool registry setting a while ago and had to look it up again.