Power Twitter Tricks

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

One of the reasons I love Twitter so much is that it is so extensible. You can use it to accomplish a ton of tasks with almost no work on your part. Recently, several friends had of mine had joined Twitter and asked about how I do some things. I thought it might be beneficial [...]

Set Up Adhoc Lists with Tags in RTM

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

I keep finding more useful ways to use Remember The Milk.  My booklist, my wedding planning, my bills.  It is just a generally great tool.  Last week though, when I went on vacation I ran across a really cool feature that I’ve never used.  Tags.

I had a whole bunch of tasks that that I wanted [...]

A Couple Linux Tips

Monday, May 5th, 2008

This week I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop and am generally pretty happy with it. As usual the install was painless quick from the upgrade button on the Update manager. I have been holding off on installing on my desktop because I want to make sure everything is running [...]

Tips for ReInstalling Ubuntu Linux

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Last weekend, I reinstalled my Ubuntu desktop. It had been running well for almost a year, but I had made so many changes that i though it was time to clear out some of the cruft. i used to religiously reinstall Windows every 6 months for the same reason.
Now I know that most of [...]

Alltop Launches

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

I’ve just run across Alltop.com.  It is a handy new sight that aggregates the top sites in many catagories and shows the headlines.  I don’t think it will replace my feed reader anytime soon, but it is a great place to browse what is on the blogs right now.
http://alltop.com/

Tiddlywiki Howto

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Just a quick and dirty howto for tiddlywiki
Yesterday, Lifehacker posted a howto on setting up a portable personal wiki. To me (and a good portion of other commenters) it seemed like overkill. It also showed me that alot of people are looking for something light, flexible, and cross-platform. This perfectly describes a tiddlywiki.
A Tiddlywiki is [...]

Change Default Ipod Player in Ubuntu

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

I’ve never been a big fan of RhythmBox, the default Ipod management software in Ubuntu. I was getting tired of it popping up every time I plugged in my Ipod. Changing it is pretty simple. I wanted Exaile to start whenever I plugged in the ipod.

The way to do this is go to System->Preferences->Removable Drives [...]