Monthly Archives: August 2009

Interesting things from Mozilla Labs

I rave a fair bit about Ubiquity, but there are also a few other things from Mozilla labs that look promising. Last night I installed Weave on a couple of my computers, and am actually very impressed. Weave takes your … Continue reading

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The truth about tech support

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Sensible window sizes on Dell’s version of Ubuntu

I love my Dell Mini, but there are a couple of “features” added by Dell that drive me mad. One of these is called Maximus. It’s an application that tells any window that opens on the desktop to open full-screen. … Continue reading

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The Art of Community

This looks interesting, and can be applied to all communities, not just those of a technical nature. I’ve read a few bits and pieces during pre-release and it makes a lot of sense.

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An easier way to share

Despite the fact that I don’t use Gmail as my primary point of contact, I do use most of Google’s other tools quite a lot. In particular, I’m a big fan of Google Calendar, Docs and Groups, and I use … Continue reading

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Exploring Suse Studio

I’ve had an account on http://susestudio.com/ for a few weeks now, but have only really had a couple of chances to play with it. The basic idea behind the site is that anyone should be able to create a customised … Continue reading

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Piping fortune into twidge

fortune | twidge update actually works as expected. Add cron to the mix, and you can automate random utterances to appear on twitter when you are away from your computer or otherwise engaged. More an amusement than anything useful, but … Continue reading

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Musical discoveries of the weekend

Various freely available MP3s by Portugal. The Man – I’d not heard of this band until about 3 hours ago, but am actually quite taken with them now. It’s American indie with a strong side order of psychedelia, and I … Continue reading

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Finding wifi on the move

During my recent trip to London, I decided that I’d try and stay online as much as possible, whilst at the same time not paying for (or in fact stealing) an internet connection. It was actually a lot easier than … Continue reading

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Twidge

I’ve been after a command line based microblogging tool for ages. I think Twidge might be just what I need. The syntax to make a post is as follows: twidge update “whatever you want to post goes here” And before … Continue reading

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