I like Firefox, I really do. Version 3 has a lot of cool features, and runs very stable on both my XP system at work and my Ubuntu system at home. But…
Firefox3 is a huge memory hog.
I regularly see 140+ MB of memory being used by FF on both my Linux and XP systems. This […]

I’ve just finished and uploaded Episode 064. This screencast demonstrates the use of Inkscape’s Object->Clip->Set function for some creative bitmap masking.
Head over there to watch or download the episode and check out any of the other 63 episodes we’ve done so far.
Happy Canada Day tomorrow everybody!

If you’re interested in a super-slick way to browse images (on Flickr, Google Image Search, Picasa, Facebook or any of almost 20 different sites), and you’re using Firefox (Windows/Mac), Safari or even IE, then check out Piclens.
On my XP machine at work I’ve installed the Piclens add-on for FF3 (there’s one for FF2 as well […]

I’ve been meaning to add a ‘related posts’ plugin to my theme for quite a while now. Adding the plugin was dead easy. However getting it to look decent on my blog template was an exercise in first class, grade A, CSS butchery. Look away Dan Cederholm.. Bulletproof CSS this is not.
I approached the problem […]

A week or so ago, I espoused the virtues of Task, a great little command line application that has replaced the venerable todo.txt system for managing my projects and To-Do list at work. In that post, I described how to build Task within Cygwin for those of us who use Cygwin to get our Linux […]

Episode 061 is now up. In this screencast I demonstrate how to create a pseudo-realistic looking recycle bin type object. It could be useful for someone wanting to create icons perhaps. It only took 7 or 8 objects to create and demonstrates how some subtle uses of gradients and blurs can help get the effect […]

I was in a Wal-Mart up here in Aurora Ontario this weekend, and while sauntering by the electronics section I saw a couple of Flip Video cameras on display for sale. The price was something close to $155.00 as I recall. Up until now I think the Flip Camera was sold exclusively in the States. […]

Here is how I know…
Two years ago, just before I went on a week long vacation, I asked our IT guy here at work to mirror my incoming work email to my personal Gmail account while I was away. I never got him to turn that off and I’m glad.
I have done nothing but wrestle […]

Browsing through the Flickr Group of You Look Nice Today (a podcast I’m a recently quite fond of), I came across a Geekiest photo pool.
If you are in need of a good and hearty laugh today, just browse that pool of photos. Especially this one posted by Chris Pirillo. Check out his dad’s ‘fro. It […]

One of the highlights of my recent Vegas vacation didn’t have anything to do with Vegas. The inimitable Dave Yates interviewed me via phone for Episode 73 of his Lottalinuxlinks podcast. This is definitely one of my favourite Linux podcasts, and that is probably all down to Dave himself. He always makes me chuckle.
It went […]