This guy just saved my sanity! If you are running Eclipse 3.5 and are noticing “funny” behavior (buttons not working, certain fields not appearing), then follow these instructions. It looks like Eclipse is doing some nasty stuff advanced hacking in SWT on GTK. This bug is fixed in 3.6M2 but you can work around the [...]
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My first iPhone web application: iSuperGP. If you use supergenpass.com for your password management, iSuperGP helps you use it on your iPhone. Using HTML5 local storage, you can save your sites locally so you don’t have to retype them every time in the SGP mobile version. The application is fully offline enabled, so you can [...]
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Tagged: development, iPhone, isupergp, webapp
Apple recently released Safari 4. Being the model geek, I decided to give it a spin — and I liked what I saw. But here’s the problem: at this point I have a deeply ingrained web browsing workflow. Whether it’s a habit or a plugin, there are certain things that are this point muscle memory [...]
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photo credit: rivalius13 Please give us a mouse with two freaking buttons! This right-click success rate of 50% is annoying the crap out of me. I pulled out my old crappy Belkin travel mouse and you know what? When I want to right click now? I just press the right mouse button and what do [...]
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Tagged: apple, might mouse
photo credit: tschörda If you need to install linux on a laptop, choose Ubuntu over the other derivations. There is simply more time and people working on the Gnome version of Ubuntu versus the KDE or Fluxbox derivations. When I installed Kubuntu 09.04 (Jaunty) things weren’t “just working” like they do on my desktop. Having [...]
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photo credit: zopeuse Kubuntu 09.04 (Jaunty) has been an absolute pleasure to use on my home desktop. Everything just works, and works really well. I happen to choose an Nvidia graphics card when I put it together. Turns out that was a very good decision. Lets turn to my laptop (a Thinkpad T42). It has [...]
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photo credit: concretecandy My normal modus operandi is to heavily use tabs with Konsole. My strategy gets pretty hectic when you have a Konsole per machine with multiple tabs, trying to juggle everything… It’s basically reached it’s scalability threshold. I’m hoping injecting GNU Screen into my workflow will simplify things a little bit (though I’m [...]
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