Archive | March, 2006
Creating PDFs without Adobe
PDF – portable Document Format is supposed to be an open document standard. Here’s a tool for your windows desktop that does a nice job in making it so. PrimoPDF is a good, free solution for creating pdfs on your windows desktop. Check it ou! geek out. Share and Enjoy:
Continue reading...New heights of geek
21. March 2006
How’s this for interesting. I am posting this from Deepest Sender, a plugin for Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is running on Windows XP Pro. Windows XP Pro is running on my Ubuntu Linux install as a VM using VM player. I swear, this stuff is so much fun. Not only am I doing all this, but [...]
Continue reading...Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
21. March 2006
Time is something that’s been on my mind lately. There’s either too much of it or never enough, usually falling closer to the never enough spectrum. We’ve got so many time saving measures in place now (washing machines, computers, microwaves, radar detectors) that I find myself trying to cram a lot more into the same [...]
Continue reading...Linkydink – Future Me
20. March 2006
Here’s a pretty interesting site. Future Me allows you to send an email to yourself in the future. No time machine required. Simply type the text and include an email address, and then tell it when you want it to send. geek out. Share and Enjoy:
Continue reading...Comment on Gkrellm – the everything monitor by arsgeek
20. March 2006
(Sigh). I’m not sure, but I believe this has to do with wordpress.com. Sometimes everything works like a charm and other times even I can’t see some of these things. I’m going to go through post by post and make sure that nothing is truly marked as private, but I don’t believe that anything is. [...]
Continue reading...Comment on Gkrellm – the everything monitor by geekel
20. March 2006
Comment unrelated to this post . . . Some of your entries – like “Gnome themes . . .” and “I have no idea . . .” – I can’t see. Maybe they’re marked for privacy or something, but I just wanted to let you know, in case they weren’t. There’s a couple other ones [...]
Continue reading...Gkrellm – the everything monitor
20. March 2006
Here in Ubuntuland I’ve been using a monitoring tool called GKrellm for a while now. It’s capable of doing everything from displaying the time to graphing all cpu processes to monitoring the phases of the moon. To install GKrellm either use Synaptic, or simply type: sudo apt-get install gkrellm The prepacked tool comes with plenty [...]
Continue reading...Linkydinkydoo – The Geek Hierarchy Chart
17. March 2006
For those who’d like to see where they stand in the world of geeks, check out this chart. Have a great weekend all! geek out. Share and Enjoy:
Continue reading...Gnome themes and fonts – eye candy like you mean it.
17. March 2006
One of the things I really enjoy about Linux is the ability to configure eye candy on your own. I’m most familiar with Gnome/Ubuntu so that’s what I’m going to write about here. In Gnome, you have a series of themes you can choose from that determine how your desktop will look. This includes a [...]
Continue reading...Linkydink – Eraser for windows
15. March 2006
Eraser is in my opinion a must have tool for any windows user concerned with privacy. when you delete a file from your windows machine, it doesn’t actually leave the hard drive. What happens in basic terms is that a link pointing to that file’s location(s) on the hard drive is removed, but the file [...]
Continue reading...Blinkenlights
15. March 2006
Here’s a neat little trick that I just did on my laptop. Using a nifty little package called gaim-thinklight I configured my X41’s keyboard illuminator to blink every time I get a new instant message via gaim. This is particularily handy at work as I use a dual monitor setup, running gaim on my laptop’s [...]
Continue reading...Linkydink – Your profile, hacked into a log
14. March 2006
Wow, there are a lot of ways to interpret that title. but what I really mean is a physical, 3D Escher-like profile of your face lathed onto a piece of wood. Neat! geek out. Share and Enjoy:
Continue reading...Space – the final frontier
14. March 2006
Stardust has returned to our humble home, and now scientists are asking for our help in determining what it is exactly that they have in their hands. From the same folks who brought you SETI@home, this do-it-yourself supercomputer project will help scientists and researchers sort through and identify over 20,000 digital images concerning the payload [...]
Continue reading...Uber Geek – Mars Express
13. March 2006
Looks like Google just launched the latest in it’s Maps series – highlighting Mars! Mars has always been a geek-dream, from the discovery of the ‘canals’ to the operation of the two rovers that lasted well beyond anyone’s expectations. It’s the first and foremost planet in our solar system that offers a viable chance for [...]
Continue reading...Busy weekend
13. March 2006
I would post something geeky and technical here, but the Sopranos are premiering in about 4 minutes. So look tomorrow for more geek advice. geek out. Share and Enjoy:
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- Sort Through Crap Apps With AppGeek
- Guild Wars 2 Forum Website Launches
22. March 2006
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