The Coolest Feature of Firefox 3

Firefox 3 is amazing, and comes with so many improvements. It has shown great innovation. But the greatest advantage, to me, is:
I don’t need as many extensions as I used to.
That is it. Less extensions means faster startup, and way more stability. At one point my FF2 install had upwards of 50 extensions, and [...]

Open Source = Easy Customization

I recently fell in love with GMPC, a terrific GTK based MPD frontend. It is very powerful, while looking very good. One thing I was unhappy with, however, was the tray icons. Also it didn’t fit in terribly well with the rest of my theme. So i decided to change it.
Another MPD frontend I like, [...]

Amazing Bandwidth

Today someone sent me a link to this great animation. It’s called Animator vs. Animation, and it is on DeviantArt. The stats for this thing amazed me.
I noticed that:

The animation has 5,162,441 views.
I used Firebug to find the exact bandwidth of 1.7 mb for the page load and to watch.

This amazes me. Lets do some [...]

This is bad.

I saw an article earlier, and it linked to a page that has an online WPM checker. It works (very well), and I liked it. It is here, btw.
The problem came when I went to view the source. I found this:

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Page protected by ionCube – HTML/JavaScript Encoder
Copyright (c) 2003 RWJD.Com and ionCube Ltd. All [...]

Easy way to make any window transparent w/ Compiz

I was using Cellwriter yesterday, and decided that it would be cool to make it transparent, so it doesn’t cover what is behind it. To do this I used Compiz.
To do this, make sure you have the advanced settings manager. It is located at System > Preferences > Advanced Desktop Effect Settings. If it isn’t [...]

Cellwriter

As a tablet PC user under Ubuntu, I searched hard for a decent handwriting recognition program. A while ago, I found one. It is called Cellwriter. This entire post is written with it, not much slower than typing. Although the author claims it is a very young program, its performance rivals that of the Windows [...]