Archive for April, 2008
How to have Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 running at the same time | redemption in a blog
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008How to have Firefox 3 and Firefox 2 running at the same time
Quite simply set up a different profile that FireFox 3 always runs under (for example, my FF3 windows shortcut target is
“C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5\firefox.exe” -P FireFox3
(FireFox3 being a profile I set up).
I think the betas of Firefox 3 are now stable enough for everyday use, and it certainly feels snappier to me. Also major plugins (adblock plus, noscript) support it.
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Points of View: what do you think of George Lamb and what’s going on with 6music? | Word Magazine
Saturday, April 26th, 2008Points of View: what do you think of George Lamb and what’s going on with 6music? | Word Magazine
To summarize, almost everyone hates him. The latest Viz magazine in which he was compared to a character known as Terry F*ckwit sums it up.
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Open Tyrian
Thursday, April 24th, 2008opentyrian - Google Code
Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. The story is set in 20,031 where you play as Trent Hawkins, a skilled fighter-pilot employed to fight Microsol and save the galaxy.
SVN builds are available on the forums for Windows and Mac OS X. Grab a copy of the Tyrian 2.1 data files (mirror), since they usually are not included with the SVN builds.
There are also console builds for the PSP, DS, GP2X, Gizmondo, GameCube, Amiga, Dreamcast, and Nokia Internet Tablets.
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Drift Records
Monday, April 21st, 2008The Drift Records Shop is a fantastic independent record store in Totnes, Devon.
Why not buy one of their very exclusive cloth bags (£2):
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Laptable models - four laptop table models
Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Pidgin developers attempt to star in new Dilbert
Thursday, April 17th, 2008Pidgin, an excellent multi-IM client for Linux and more has suddenly developed a feature hardly any users like. Basically they have forced the size of the window where you edit the text for outgoing messages to be fixed.
The developer responses in the thread (eg from seanegan) are the sort of thing that give developers a bad name. Fortunately someone has forked pidgin to get the features back: funpidgin.
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J.W.E.: True Comic Story #1: How The Hulk Almost Got Me Laid
Thursday, April 17th, 2008J.W.E.: True Comic Story #1: How The Hulk Almost Got Me Laid
What a fantastic story…
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Moving from bloglines (almost)
Thursday, April 17th, 2008I’m on the verge of moving from Bloglines. Newsgator offer fantastic desktop clients for Windows & Mac, as well as a web based version - but what is really great is that they all sync, so you don’t re-read the same articles if you read from multiple computers.
Unfortunately, the web reader is not as good as bloglines, and as far as I can tell none of the linux desktop aggregators such as straw or liferea support syncing with the open api newsgator provide.
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Google Email Uploader
Thursday, April 10th, 2008The Google Email Uploader is a open source desktop utility for Microsoft Windows. It uploads email and contacts from desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook® ) into your Google Apps mailbox. It preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by email programs.
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