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Nov

19

Gmail adds themes

The Gmail team have started rolling out theme-functionality. They haven’t rolled it out to all users yet, but everyone should have it in a few days. Go to ‘Settings’ -> ‘Themes’, and you’ll be able to select a predefined theme. If you’re happy with the default theme - even that has been improved and tweaked slightly. [...]

 

Nov

17

Controlling Facebook Privacy

Facebook has functionality to create friend-lists (groups of friends). Nice thing is, you can use these lists to block certain people from viewing specific parts of your profile. Start out by creating a bunch of lists: A few examples are (for every part you would like to control): No-Basic-Info No-Personal-Info No-Photos No-See-Friends No-Updates No-Videos No-Wall If you like, you can go ahead and add [...]

 

Nov

15

Improving Photoshop CS4 Performance

If you’re having performance issues after installing Adobe’s latest version of Photoshop, try having a look at these options: Allocating more memory to Photoshop Edit -> Preferences -> Performance to allocate more RAM to Photoshop. Don’t use too much (over 90% for example), your OS will need RAM too! Don’t allocate too little. Experiment, try 60% and work your [...]

 

Nov

8

FCKeditor - Add WYSIWYG functionality to MediaWiki

I’ve always found it annoying that MediaWiki (the backbone of wikipedia.org) didn’t provide a richer-editor for editing wiki-pages. Sure, I could learn the mediawiki-syntax, but I keep forgetting it. That just means I end up searching Google for a MediaWiki reference guide or keep hitting preview to see what the page looks like. The FCKeditor-extension adds [...]

 

Nov

5

Firefox 3.1 adds Private Browsing

Firefox 3.1 will come with a Private Browsing feature that can be activated through the Tools menu. Not sure how useful this function really is - all it does is not store traces of your browsing-history on your machine. It doesn’t keep you anonymous from websites or your ISP, and is definitely not meant to protect [...]

 

Nov

4

More ways to access ‘Remember the Milk’

Remember the Milk (RTM) is a simple online service for keeping track of To-do lists and tasks. I get a little put off with the idea of having to visit a website to keep track of tasks, and the guys at RTM obviously understand this. So they’ve created some useful gadgets and extensions for other services [...]

 

Nov

1

Wordpress 2.7 Beta 1

The new Wordpress is ready for download. The upgrade was easy enough and didn’t break any of my plugins. Apart from the new pretty dashboard-update, Wordpress 2.7 simplifies future upgrades by giving you the option of doing it for you. I’ll have to wait till the next release to try it out.

 

Oct

31

Gmail-Unread-Count First

Lifehacker has a great Firefox plugin for Gmail (”BetterGmail”). Behind the scenes, the plugin actually runs GreaseMonkey scripts. I have my taskbar on the left hand side of the screen. When I get an email, this means that I can’t tell I have unread messages (because the title says “Gmail - Inbox(1) - [email address]“). What [...]

 

Oct

29

Wordpress theme: Lounge-blur

I’ve started designing Wordpress themes, this is the first of a few on the way. To download/preview the theme, click here: It’s a 2-column theme, with a horizontal navigation bar at the top and a simple side-bar on the right. It also has a subtle shadow around the box. Let me know if you decide to use [...]

 

Oct

28

Performing Wordpress upgrades (Linux)

Note: Remember to always refer to the official upgrade guide. This is by no means official, but it has worked for me. I’ve tried to keep it as short and easy as possible. Another Note: Wordpress 2.7 comes out on November 10th. It will have an automatic updater module - so you probably won’t have to [...]