Find Out What Software a Website Is Using

If you're like me, one of the first things you wonder about a website is what CMS/backend they're running. Is that WordPress? Drupal? Are they using a JS framework? MooTools? jQuery? Well now it's as easy as installing a Firefox plugin called Wappalyzer.

Now even …

Google Changes It's Favicon...Again

Google changed their favicon again today. They seem to change it more often than Puff Daddy changes names...or is it P. Diddy? Pappa Diddy? P Poppa Diddy Pop? Whatever his name is today.

I prefer it to their old one mainly because it fits their logo/brand better. The …

Quick Samba Tip: Locations Of Samba Shares In Ubuntu

With the newer versions of Ubuntu (8.10 and I believe 8.04 for sure), you don't need to directly modify the samba configuration file (smb.conf) quite as much as before. It's still nice however to know where it's at just in case.

It's also good to note that when you use …

What Do You Consider Good Design?

I just finished reading The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. An excellent book about what makes good design good, and more importantly, bad design bad. It has many different examples but keeps coming back to a couple of everyday objects that we use everyday. …

The Design Of Everyday Things Review

I just finished reading The Design Of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. Although this book is really focused on design of physical objects, as a web designer, I always love reading about design theory in general. While I can't use most of the examples as is, there are …

Introducing the MacBook Wheel...

The guys over at The Onion have a breaking story on the revolutionary MacBook Wheel. Why does this product remind me of the iPhone in so many ways? I could try to explain the video...but you really just need to watch it.

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No …

Can't Delete File In Ubuntu

Sometimes you'll notice that one of your files has a lock icon next to it. This usually means that for some reason, you are no longer the owner of the folder/file.

This can happen for a variety of reasons, but it's fairly easy to correct, albeit a real nuisance …

WordPress Image Upload Issue Part 2

A while back I wrote about some trouble I was having with WordPress' flash image uploader in version 2.6. After 2.7 came out, I upgraded and the problem seemed to go away...wrong. This thing just keeps getting weirder.

There are several people reporting that adding some …

Using Screenlets to Monitor Your Computer and Bandwidth

I used to use Yahoo! Widgets on Windows to keep tabs on my computer. There are some widgets that I really miss. Mainly some of the monitoring functions, like CPU and RAM usage, hard drive space, etc. I also had a handy weather widget and a clock as well. Nothing major, …

Quickly Check How Many Unread Emails You Have In Gmail

If you're not using Firefox, get it. If you're not using Greasemonkey...get it.

Good. Now that you are living in the current century, Lifehacker found a seriously cool Greasemonkey script today called 'Gmail Unread Message Count in Favicon'. It does exactly what it says …

Rock Climbing At Stone Works Climbing Gym

Just got done climbing at Stone Works Climbing Gym in Carrollton, Texas. It's the tallest indoor rock climbing facility in the United States and second worldwide. It was pretty amazing. The routes range in height from 18 feet to 121 feet. I of course forgot my camera, …

Installing Sun Microsystems VirtualBox On Ubuntu 8.10 With USB and Audio Support

So after I switched over to Ubuntu, there were still some things that I absolutely had to have Windows for. Primarily Photoshop (I do run CS2 inside Crossover, but I much prefer CS4), Dreamweaver and until Songbird learns how to not suck at podcast management, iTunes …

Connect Ubuntu 8.10 to a Windows 7 Share

So I've been playing around with Windows 7 today. Figured I'd throw a quick tutorial on how to connect an Ubuntu machine to a Windows 7 share. Quick note, I'm running the first beta of Windows 7, build 7000. Since the network stack has changed very little from Vista, …

Mount NTFS Formatted Harddrives In Ubuntu

Even though Ubuntu is pretty good about automatically mounting any new external or internal hard drives, I think one of the things all Linux users should have a little bit of knowledge of is the fstab file. fstab is a config file that contains information about all the …

Ubuntu Audio Preview Feature

I was messing around in Ubuntu 8.10 today and stumbled across a really cool audio preview feature. I'm not sure how long this has been a part of Ubuntu, but it's already very useful and has a lot more potential. Check out the video after the jump.

One of the things I …

Missing Add/Remove Programs List In Ubuntu

I normally use Synaptic Package Manager or the command line to install/remove programs in Ubuntu. Sometimes, however, I like to just look through the list with the descriptions and see how the programs are rated to make a decision on what to install.

Today I opened …

Revolution OS Video

If you're a serious GNU, Linux, FOSS kind of guy/gal, and haven't seen this movie, I highly recommend it. The beginning starts out with Eric Raymond telling a story about when he ran into a big wig from Microsoft. When asked who he was, Eric replied "I'm your worst …

Share Files Between Two Ubuntu Computers

I recently switched to Ubuntu as my primary computer. This means I now have two computers running Ubuntu instead of just my secondary testing machine. I needed to share files between the two as a way of making things easier on myself. Here's how to do it.

Please note …

Chinese Gift Exchange = Caption Contest

So I was at a Christmas party on Friday where we had a Chinese Gift Exchange. I pretty much cleaned up with the best gift, an awkwardly erect duck. I need your help to add captions, name it, whatever you can think of. Game on.

Get the Original Image

'Pharmacy Duck' by …

Get Motivated By Gary Vaynerchuk

Found this video today of Gary Vaynerchuk at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York. This guy is full of passion and energy and truly loves what he does. If he can't get you inspired to make positive changes in your life, you may check your pulse. This video is titled "Building …