Qian and Matt conspired to get me a Wii for my birthday, and I’m having tons of fun with it. By far the best of the Wii sports is boxing. The minimum amount of movement required is pretty high, and it demands a considerable amount of skill and quick thinking. And it makes my arms […]
ok. Slin says the iPhone as gotten much better. Here is my ultimate test. If you can read this l, ihave been able to successfully post on my blog without crashing.
I seem to be frequently having this experience lately where I find a windows app that implements some desktop/GUI feature that I really like from linux, and almost in a better way. The two I’ve found recently are: VirtuaWin: A virtual desktop switcher for windows. (thank you Ramesh for the pointer) AutoHotKey: A massively customizable […]
Nikon’s new D3 camera has a full frame sensor! Their marketing data calls it “FX” format. Whatever. Does this mean that 1.5x crop sensors are on the way out? They made all that noise about how DX is big enough and that it makes it easier to build new lenses. Was that all FUD? Does […]
If you’re like me, you’re stuck with Outlook at work because your company runs an Exchange server. Sure Exchange has IMAP and POP support, but it’s never quite the same as using outlook. You’ve mostly tamed Outlook, except for one small problem. All your programmer colleagues insist on using plain-text messages. And when you use […]
I don’t really know the lingo, I just know what I see. Look at the image below. Can you tell which is which? The left is XP, the right is Linux (Firefox, mstt core fonts, and mlind’s freetype/xft/cairo updates with David Turner’s newest lcd filtering patches, full, BCI-enabled hinting). I took the screenshot by overlaying […]
I had a bad feeling about this Asus P5B motherboard ever since I got it. It claims integrated wi-fi, but all that really means as it has an internal usb header with a usb wifi device hooked up. And all the utilities are ricer-looking. And the auto-bios update utility can’t find bios files on their […]
imac The new iMac looks kinda ugly to me. What’s with the black border around the screen? is that a beard? And the keyboard looks bugly, though bluetooth 2.0 is nice, I think. Who knows if it actually works better. outlook quoting Tried this outlook QuoteFix macro thing but it doesn’t quite work. Now I’m […]
A small list of little programs I need to write: A better task switcher for windows XP (and maybe vista, though that seems a lot harder). It will highlight the frame of the window you’re about to switch to, just like metacity does. A better compose window for outlook. One that has a real text […]
Despite starting an Ubuntu tips site, I’ve been trying out using windows at work. The main reason? Fonts. Yes, fonts can look pretty or ugly, but there is one major advantage that Windows has with regards to fonts. That is: small fonts look good. At work, the more information I can keep on my screen […]