Long time has passed since my last GMail tip about cleaning up your inbox, this time It’s all about feeds. I was really surprised to find out that there are people who didn’t know that GMail offers a variety of atom feeds for you to subscribe, so you don’t have to bother with newsletters in you inbox and can put and read them where they belong, in your feed reader. Continue reading
Greyscale picture with coloured highlight
Have you ever wondered how those pictures are made where everything is grey but a pair of bight red lips? Let me show you how it’s done, I’m using a picture of a blossom to lead you to the process and you will be surprised how fast and easy you can make your pictures. Continue reading
Three reasons why Windows 7 won’t kill Linux
Windows 7, Microsoft’s new Operating system is on it’s way to be released mid 2009 and because of its, in comparison to prior abominations from Redmod more modular structure, lighter appearance and promotion of Netbook usage some have already announced the death of the Linux world. Here are five reasons why this won’t be the case and why you should not erase Linux from your hard drive as soon as Windows 7 hits the shelves. Continue reading
Britain to create world’s largest theme park
The still unnamed mega project, currently referred to as the 1984 Memorial Theme park, is due to open its doors within the next two years, it will be built upon an area of the size of 209,331 km2 ( 80,823 sq mi), roughly 1,700 times the size of Florida based Disney World Resort. Continue reading
New version of the WordPress Vigilance theme released
Yesterday, Drew Strojny aka Jestro released the new version of his Vigilance theme for WordPress, which you might have guessed happens to be the theme I currently use on this blog. 1.13 fixes a couple of issues, and people using it should upgrade. Continue reading
thoughts on Digital Rights Management
This isn’t actually news, but I happened to have a discussion about whether DRM is good for you so I’m sharing some of my thoughts. First of all, DRM is bad, and that’s already all what most people heard and know about it if they heard about it at all. So why is that, what makes it bad, evil or defective by design like slashdotters like to call it. Continue reading
You can’t make money with the Linux Desktop
Some days ago Mark Shuttleworth was quoted in computer world blog, saying that he’ doesn’t think you anyone can make money of the Linux Desktop while he’s probably right with that but it has to be pointed out that Ubuntu was the nail in the coffin of Linux’ desktop business. Continue reading
Creating outlined text with the GIMP
I was asked how to create outline text in Gimp by a friend and I thought if I’m already telling one guy how to create outlines I can just use my blog to tell everyone so this is some kind of tutorial showing as the headline already suggests, outlined text. Continue reading