Category Archives: Software

Skype Beta – Testing nearly 18 Months of Work

Posted on August 28, 2009 by stanner

Today I got an email from a mailing list I am currently subscribed to and someone pointed out that a new version of Skype for Linux was released. The last release of Skype for Linux (2.0.x) was indeed plauged with … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Prism – Blurring the web, desktop, and mobile apps

Posted on August 27, 2009 by stanner

When visiting my friend Mark, he introduced me to a simple app called fluid. This OS X application captures web apps and lets you run them as embedded in a window like a native application. Then he showed me why … Continue reading →

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Tweaking Firefox

Posted on March 12, 2009 by stanner

Firefox has grown a lot over the last few years. It’s US market share is currently greater than 21%. With so many of us on line every day, that means a huge chunk of people are using Firefox. By no … Continue reading →

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Updated Block Lists

Posted on March 11, 2009 by stanner

Yesterday I posted about tweaking Deluge. In there I also talked about the block lists.Today I decided I would take the time to update the script that compiles all the blocklists to one file every weekend.

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Tweaking Deluge

Posted on March 10, 2009 by stanner

Yesterday I noted that I prefer the Deluge BitTorrent client for my torrenting (is that a word yet?) listing several reasons. Today I want to show you how to set it up to maximize its usefulness. From configuring network connection … Continue reading →

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