If, like me you have recently upgraded to Firefox 3 and you have spent years using Tabbed Browser Preferences to manage your tabs position in the window, colour, order etc etc, then you, like me, are quite disappointed with the lack of configuration the tab bar has within Firefox 3. Developer Comments: This extension is an enhancement […]

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Apturl allows you to install Ubuntu packages from a website using the following syntax: apt:packagename (where packagename is the name of the package you wish to install For example, I wanted to install a new pixel ruler (link courtesy of Borntwisted) called KRuler. If I was to install this directly from my web browser I would […]

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NOTE: This How To: is for Ubuntu Linux (all versions) but should work on any version of Linux that supports the ext3 filesystem and reiserfs filesystem. This How To: is offered as is and I cannot take responsibility for any problems you suffer as a result of modifying yoru core system files. ext3 Filesystem The ext3 or […]

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If, like me you have your media and web server kept on another machine, and get annoyed having to put your username and password in each time you want to grab a file or listen to music, then this is for you. This is the most secure method I could come up with, simply put, if […]

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Citrix is a system that allows you to run applications you have at work/home from anywhere in the world or on your local area network (LAN) from a remote workstation. You have real time access to run your applications as fast as if you are in the office. It does not matter if you’re using a […]

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Mod_Rewrite uses a rule-based rewriting engine (based on a regular-expression parser) to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. It supports an unlimited number of rules and an unlimited number of attached rule conditions for each rule to provide a really flexible and powerful URL manipulation mechanism. The URL manipulations can depend on various tests, for […]

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Over the past 3 months I have been slowly working on a new design for the site. It has been slow going due to work and personal commitments but I think I am finally at a point where I can go live with the design. A few tweaks are needed here and there that I […]

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Jeff Han and Phil Davidson over at Perceptive Pixel have created the future in technology and company in industry and hopefully in the home. This technology is called Multi-Touchscreen Computing. Perceptive Pixel, Inc. was founded by Jeff Han in 2006 as a spinoff of the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences to develop and market the most […]

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Our top story this evening. The BBC has displayed one of the internets most notorious of pictures. The Goatse. Suffice to say I will not be showing the actual image, but you may read the wikapedia reference here. It is not one of the best pics in the world, and I urge people to view […]

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Im sat in the waiting room of the emergency dental hospital and have been for the last hour. I took my ticket ‘green 7′ and begin to wait. Life begins to stir behind reception as an unhelpful, snappy troll like figure starts barking her orders to prove she is the lord over the reception desk […]

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Okay, so it has been a considerable amount of time since I posted last. Things have been somewhat strained over the last few months. Needless to say I will not bore you with the details of my home life but you can all rest assured that I am back. I am now settled in Cardiff […]

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Borntwisted came up with a wonderful idea to check that his free host was running without having to visit the a page or check the ftp. He wrote a short piece of HTML that would pull an image off his website, if the server failed to respond the ALT tage would display OFFLINE. I like to code [...]

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This tutorial will guide you through installing Lexmark printers on Ubuntu. The tutorial was taken from the Ubuntu forums. I decided to post it here as it did not work exactly like it was supposed to for me and I had to modify the procedure. I have ammended the tutorial to my needs and probably the [...]

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""Many people know from their own experience that it's not easy to install an Apache web server and it gets harder if you want to add MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just [...]

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I am using the pre-installed version of Mozilla Firefox for Linux, some of you I know are not. This fix defiantly works on the pre-installed version, it is a little flaky on a manual install of Firefox and has been known not to work. Please do try it if you have the manual install and hopefully [...]

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I had to download the RealPlayer for Linux because of certain videos and the plugin for Firefox. unfortunatly I had no sound, although video quality was fantastic. So after some searching around I found a few fixes, this one worked for me. Open your terminal window and edit this file in your favourite text editor ("gedit" [...]

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Open a terminal window and enter: gedit ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/openas-root Now add this code to the file #!/bin/sh ### openas-root: ### written by alexp ### nautilus script for opening the selected files as superuser (uid=0), ### utilizing the appropriate applications. for uri in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS; do gksudo "gnome-open $uri" & done ### end of file. Save and close this file. Now enter this command into the [...]

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Unfortunatly we all need to use Internet Explorer at some point. Even us Linux users require it to test web designs to make sure that they work correctly. 90 odd percent of people out there use Internet Explorer, not through choice, they just do not know that a safer, more secure alternative exists. Which by [...]

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As most of you will know, I do not use, and do not like Internet Explorer. When I checked this theme in Internet Explorer before I started adding content to the site, it worked fine. Now, as you IE uses can see, there are some glaring mistakes. I am fixing them. Expect the ammendment to be [...]

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Over the last few weeks I have been setting up my home server again. First I had to find a computer capable of doing the job, which I managed to acquire from a friend of mine. The computer I got hold of was an ex-office computer. Its a Dell desktop PC which came with 128mb [...]

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Awesome flash drum machine animation Girlspeak to English translation Design a Face How to Tick People off Storm Photos Spherical Perspective - a brief tutorial Manga Tutorials

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I have been working on improving my photoshop skills lately and have always intended to create a space theme. The space theme is not the greatest I could have done, I wanted to create a spiraling galaxy, but was unable to get the look I desired. I'm still working on that. The Glass Ball, took me [...]

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A few weeks back, my computers power supply decided it had had enough of doing its job, and quit. In a loud and smokey fashion no less. For some reason I am unable to fathom, my motherboard, 2 hard drives, 1 out of 4 PCI cards, all RAM sticks, and the floppy drive all died. How [...]

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This is certainly a novel idea, but does it have an actual use? It looks real nice, just watch the video. This is definately an application i would use. I would have it shown on my second monitor so that I still had my main desktop functionality. So far as I can tell, this will just be [...]

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This is the story of one mans moral struggle to retrieve stolen property. His friend left her T-Mobile Sidekick II in a taxi, and fearing she had lost the phone and all of its data she offered a handsome reward via text message for the phones safe return. The text message was periodically sent to [...]

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I have always been a huge fan of anything technological, and this just takes the cake and eats it all. The possibiltes of using a dermal display are endless. For example, you can use it for displaying your vital medical information such as blood type, heart rate, medical conditions, what medication if any you are [...]

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Welcome to the world of Big Brother. Unsuspecting people are havign there photo taken when purchasing Gillette razor blades from British super-markets. For full details read here There are a few options on avoiding this. Firstly, stop buying Gillette products at the super-market, secondly, you can fight back. You can use a small magnet to interfere with the [...]

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I have not posted a lot lately. Anyway, I thought I would make up for it with some technology news. Nintendo Steals Show at E3 'Botmaster' gets 57 months in prison Always nice to see them behind bars.

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In pictures: Species on the brink Cash card taps virtual game funds

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The standard WordPress navigation menu is limited in that it does not show sub menus. it will list every single page on your website in one long list in the navigation section. For larger sites this can become troublsome. Who wants 50 links running down the side of the page just for the content. It can [...]

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After a windows update and updating my graphics card drivers, video playback became almost impossible. The video playback in all of my multimedia players was overlayed with a bright green filter. A quick search through google and the nVidia forums and I fond the answer. The nVidia drivers are to blame, and the fix is simple, [...]

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I wanted a little script that would allow me to have specific styles for individual comments depending on the authour. I had a look around for WordPress plugins and other info, but could not find anything that actually worked. So I wrote my own little switch statment to sort it all out. PLAIN TEXT PHP: <?php switch (comment_author_email){ case ($comment->comment_author_email == [...]

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You just have to love Benny Benassi. His music and especially his videos rock.

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Morning Theme Quite aptly named, since it was very early in the morning that I created this Wordpress has hundreds of themes out there for you to choose from. I know there to be at least 700 as I search through a huge list looking for something that would suit my needs. Each to there own [...]

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All users can now add there very own Gravatar. Basically it is an avatar, an image that is displayed next to your name, making it easier to identify you. Once you have added a Gravatar this image will then be added to all the users comments by default. Only those with sufficient posting levels may add [...]

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Court rejects Da Vinci copy claim Rush to grab European net names The meaningless ritual of recycling BOFH: Headcase

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This is just awesome. Almost on a par with "godly ping pong" from the japanese. Epic pong shots. Courtesy of Borntwisted. BOFH - Dumping Old Crap Swan tests confirm deadly virus Windows on Macs provokes a stir

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The forum has now been added. I saved the forum for user questions about any of the topics listed within. If you cannot find what your looking for just post a message and I will tye and help you out. The aim is to create a small community of people who can help each other [...]

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The problem with not being able to search the main content has now been fixed. The code was written to scan certain areas of the database. All I needed to do was modify it slightly so it searches a broader spectrum.

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Finally, the site is somewhat starting to come together. The layout has been completed and the colour scheme is 99% done. I still have a few minor issues to sort out. For example:- the search function will search the blog entries only for some reason. None of the content off this page is searched and indexed. [...]

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In a chat with SoddenGecko i thought up this method for changing a sites colours when you have the shades right, but not quite the right colours. I'm too lazy to type it into a colour tutorial at the moment so heres the pasted chat message: "if your thinking yea it blends well but i didn't [...]

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I guess that I am quite evil. Check it out. You Are 86% Evil You're the most evil person you know. The devil is even a little scared of you! How Evil are you?

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OK I had a lot of trouble with bandwidth management on the firmware I had changed to. The damn things just would not let me control the bandwidth at all. Fatty's torrents still ended up taking my bandwidth and stopping me even checking my mail. I was nearly at breaking point when I recieved an email [...]

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Well, the last attempt at solving the problem did not work. After leaving my computer idle for just 20 minutes, my housemates computers took over. I am getting annoyed with this little problem. Right now I have disabled both his ports on my router so I have time to find out what the hell is going [...]

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Plain and simply, my Roubenesque housemate has a 20 "gig a day" habit. I know when he is on the computer because my internet connection suddenly disappears. The Issue: The programs he is using to download his stuff is hogging all of our 10mb cable connection and leaves me high and dry without a connection. The Task: I needed [...]

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