Customization
Enable Gnome Video Thumbnails in Arch Linux
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…
Google Reader Mobile beats Viigo for RSS on BlackBerry
Viigo has some great features and all but for simple RSS reading on my BlackBerry Google Reader Mobile beats the crap out of Viigo.
Fix Slow Scrolling in jEdit
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.
Disable Recent Documents in Gnome 2.22.3
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 [...]
Praise for eeeXubuntu
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 [...]
My Apps List: Windows XP
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.
Why I Like KDE 4
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.
Yes! Finally the default Firefox look for OS X available for PC!
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
Custom Background for Classic Login in Windows XP
Yet another clean little tweak.
Custom Visual Style for Classic Login Box in Windows XP
I came across this cool registry setting a while ago and had to look it up again.
