Today I discovered a totally sweet feature of Google Document’s Spreadsheet. You can hook it up with Google Finance to pull stock quotes in near real time. All you need is the following in a cell: =GoogleFinance(“VTI”; “price”) The “VTI” part can be a reference to another cell. I’m guessing the “price” part can be […]
While there was no official release, it appears that the second version of Redhat’s free “Liberation” fonts are available as an attachment on this bug report. This new version has full hinting information, which should improve rendering at small sizes on low-DPI displays (read: your computer monitor). Below’s the screenshot. Surely, an improvement over the […]
I’ve been playing around with the Ubuntu 8.04 pre-release versions in a VM. So far, things are looking good. Of course, I won’t know if things are really good until I run the thing on real hardware. Firefox 3 seems like an overall improvement, except for the new autocompletion window (too busy). The Gnome desktop […]
I guess Microsoft just made an announcement that they’re going to become more open or something. The announcement seems pretty vague but lets hope that they at least do some of what the promise. But I tend to think that this is not Microsoft’s attempt to become all nice and fair. History has shown that […]
A Vista tip? Blasphemy! Well, I’m just trying it out at work, and it seems to be ok so far. But I got annoyed with the new Alt+Tab. I don’t know what people’s obsession with window thumbnails are, but to me they make all the choices look similar, where as icons clearly differentiate things. Anyways, […]
I was looking through my netflix recommendations. Either that system is completely borked, or it knows something about humans that I don’t…
Although I haven’t used KDE in a while, I applaud their efforts to make KDE apps available on Windows. Having lots of users is one of the most important aspects of a successful open source project, and the KDE developers have just opened themselves up to the remaining 90% of the user base. The more […]
Time Capsule: meh. I don’t know that it’s any more compelling than services like mozy. I guess it could be convenient though. I can see that people who just want it to work would pay for it. iTunes movie rentals: Cool, but netflix is still cheaper. If it were $1.99 per rental than I’m definitely […]
I spent an evening messing around with Pyblosxom. I was going to use it to restart my keyboard blog. It was supposed to a somewhat fun exercise in python, and I was also tired of the Movable Type admin interface being so slow. After a couple hours of hacking, I decided that Pyblosxom is too […]
Ok, my last post about this thing, I promise. Since there are tons of other reviews on the web about this thing (where you can see pictures and specs and measurements and the like), I’ll just link to those articles that I read if you want to read about that stuff. BeHardware’s comparison with the […]