XPlanet renders an Earth globe including actual clouds and satellites’ positions. It also has data to render the moon, mars or the sun. You can even put the image on your Desktop so that it shows the current Earth view from space instead of a boring wallpaper. To make things a bit easier, there’s this… Read More: XPlanet »
The default tool for CD ripping under Gnome is Sound Juicer, found under Applications → Sound & Video → Audio CD Extractor. But this tool had severe problems recognizing my custom configuration for LAME encoding (I changed vbr-quality from 6 to 2 but the tool ignored it) also you had to restart it for every… Read More: Rip CD Track »
Homepage: http://www.opera.com/browser/Development Blog: http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/ (incl. Snapshots) Hide Trayicon To save space in the systray, you can run opera with the -notrayicon parameter. Disable Mailsystem To save some memory footprint, you can disable the mail module in Opera. Cleanup caches Opera accumulates several Megabytes on caches, esp. those, who don’t cleanup themselves such as the favicon… Read More: Opera »
permanently To remap mouse buttons permanently, you can use the xinput set-button-map command. Every mouse button click issues a button click with a specific id to X11. X11 recognizes the following buttons: ID Button 1 Left click 2 Middle click 3 Right click 4 Wheel up 5 Wheel down 6 Wheel left 7 Wheel right… Read More: Remapping mouse buttons »
Homepage: qumana.com Qumana is a nice blog editor for Windows and Mac. But it is written in Java and thus should run on any platform. Running under Linux Download the Mac-Version (.zip) and unpack it. You’ll find a directory Qumana.app which contains a directory Contents which contains a directory Resources which contains a directory Java.… Read More: Qumana »
Most older programs, like The Dog Ate It are using the old 240×320 format with double pixel size. So for TDAI, this had the effect, that the ClearTyped text was badly readable because of the big pixels. The problem is that these old programs don’t bring the HI_RES_AWARE flag which causes this double pixel mode,… Read More: VGA mode for older WM programs »
Homepage: codestar.de There’s a software called CodeStar which claims to use the RSA-algorithm to encrypt up to 8 of your passwords using a single password (you should remember). It then lets you print out a colourful card which is the size of a credit card for you to have all your important passwords at hand… Read More: CodeStar »
Download: microsoft.com Use with other mice After installation, find the file point32.inf in the C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliPoint\ folder. Copy one of the HID_Filtr_Inst-lines and change the PnP-ID to that of your mouse. E.g. my Logitech V400 has Vid_046D&Pid_C518 and with its 2 additional buttons and the 4-way-scrollwheel it’s comparable with the Wireless Laser Mouse 6000.… Read More: Microsoft IntelliPoint »
Microsoft distributes the Windows Genuine Advantage Notification Tool (KB905474) through the WindowsUpdate mechanism. This tool should detect fake Windows serial numbers and nag the user. Interestingly, Microsoft hid a small paragraph in their EULA after that the tool sends daily(!!) reports to Microsoft. According to MS this “is neccessary” since the tool is BETA and… Read More: Remove WGA Notification »
After that, manpages will appear more colourful.