Monthly Archives: July 2008

Launchy for Linux

July 27, 2008 | Leave a comment
I’ve been wait­ing for this for a while:  Launchy for Linux is finally released. I use Launchy like crazy at work. It does a pretty good job help­ing me launch pro­grams and open files. But where it really shines is in replac­ing hit­ting Win+E, open­ing a win­dow to My Com­puter and brows­ing from there. When I want to go [...]
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Add An RSS feed to Conky

July 24, 2008 | Leave a comment
For a while now, I’ve been think­ing it’d be cool to be able to stream in web con­tent on my desk­top. I’m not really sure what I’d do with it, per se, but it seems like a cool idea. So I thought I’d do a lit­tle brows­ing. Sure enough, you can use Conky to pipe in an RSS feed. I’m [...]
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A Compact GTK Theme for Small Screens

July 4, 2008 | Leave a comment
Thank God for the EEE. Finally, we’re see­ing small themes for GTK show­ing up, stuff that con­serves screen space and ded­i­cates it to use­ful infor­ma­tion unlike the space-​​wasters that seem to be par for the course. Here’s one I just found: a com­pact GTK theme based on Human (the Ubuntu default). The same author has com­pact GTK [...]
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