Author: dp | 02 September 2010 | View Comments
Categories: Computers, Software
Did you know that you can search backwards in your browser (at least Firefox and Chrome anyway)? You can! In this page, hit Control+F to search for “in”. If you hit enter a few times, you should be pulled down the page as you find new search entries. What happens if you miss one? While [...]
Author: gregg | 05 June 2010 | View Comments
Categories: Software
So, you’ve been charged with the responsibility of giving your company website a facelift. Your logo looks as though it was designed by a six year-old, the overall design screams, “1998,” and the blinking text effects are starting to cause problems with your epileptic readers. Let’s be honest. You’ve got a lot of work ahead [...]
Author: dp | 03 June 2010 | View Comments
Categories: Software
If you’re trying to use Thunderbird to tag messages, you might notice in Zimbra‘s webmail that the tags are called $label1, $label2, etc. The way to make these “right” is to edit the prefs.js file. Rename the $label1, $label2 values to “important”, “work”, etc. Make sure they start with a lowercase letter, else they won’t [...]
Author: dp | 28 May 2010 | View Comments
Categories: Software
I’ve just gone through hell and back to share this information with the world, thanks to a little help from phillw on freenode. I was trying to determine where LXDE stores menu items for the applications menu, and wasn’t having any luck. But here’s what I found.
Author: dp | 16 December 2009 | View Comments
Categories: Software
It’s amazing how much content a company can add in a year, especially when that company writes articles for it’s living. A year and a half ago, I wrote this code against Sphinx: $cl = new SphinxClient (); $res = $cl->Query ( $q, $index ); foreach ( $res["matches"] as $docinfo ) { $excerpt = $cl->BuildExcerpts(array($contents), [...]
Author: dp | 14 October 2009 | View Comments
Categories: Software
I want a new media player. I want it to: play MP3s, OGGs, FLACs, etc (glaring at iTunes) download podcasts not be ugly as sin (glaring at Amarok2) be graphical (I’m a commandline junky, but not when it comes to playing music) (glaring at cmus) be fast, and not randomly lock up (glaring at Amarok1.4) [...]
Author: dp | 12 June 2009 | View Comments
Categories: Software
If you’re on Linux, and looking for an IM client that’s lighter than Pidgin, check out Empathy. It only uses about 23M of memory, plus about 15-20M for the background transport services. It has tabbed chat windows, notifications (via Gnome Notification), etc. It’s also one of the only clients that supports Voice Chat through Google [...]
Author: dp | 12 June 2009 | View Comments
Categories: Software
To enable auto-preview of messages within Claws, go to Configuration -> Preferences -> Display -> Summaries. Under the Message list section, change Open message when selected to Always. Done! To enable auto-preview of messages within Claws, go to Configuration -> Preferences -> Display -> Summaries. Under the Message list section, change Open message when selected [...]
Author: dp | 21 May 2009 | View Comments
Categories: Software
We were looking over the access logs of a few of our sites this morning, and noticed some people still hitting the sites with IE6. This pains me greatly. IE6 is the bane of every web-developers existence, and causes more headaches than anything else in my world. As such, I’ve started a cause: Converting IE6 [...]
