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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

15 second tweak for better beryl perfomance

Beryl is the best eye candy in the world, by far. Now get rid of all the jerkyness and make it buttery smooth in 15 seconds. It worked for me on my laptop with intel integrated 945 graphics. It is now smooth as silk. This is an aweseme tweak and takes 15 seconds tops.



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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Light or Lighter Weight Aps To Replace Memory Hogs in Windows XP

Today on Digg, there was a story about software that slows down Windows XP substantially. The worst offender? Norton Anti-Virus et. al. That sparked a discussion regarding light or lighter weight applications to replace those applications that slow you down to a crawl. I decided to compile that list here, a "one stop shop" if you will.



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Monday, February 26, 2007

The Ultimate Sudo FAQ — To Sudo Or Not To Sudo?

Sudo is a simple program which allows the administrator to give regular users extra permissions to execute the commands they would normally not be allowed to use. In order to use sudo you need to configure it properly. This FAQ is supposed to help you with this task.



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Saturday, February 24, 2007

13 Places To Watch TV Online for Free

If you don’t have cable at home or if you just want to watch TV amd movies while your using your PC, then you should check out the list below which lists the best free online TV services I’ve discovered.



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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Finally, an easy way to install your Video Card!

Envy is a program that will automatically install/configure your video card drivers in Ubuntu. Latest version works for both ATI/Nvidia. Now installing Beryl is a breeze!



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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Ultimate Web 2.0 Tutorials

Loads of photoshop tutorials to make web2.0-esque design styles and logos.



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Friday, February 16, 2007

15 CSS Properties You Probably Never Use (but perhaps should)

Explanation of 15 CSS properties that aren't used much in web development these days.



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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

WINE Gaming: Steam, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, Counter Strike Source and 1.6

Half Life 2 and Counter Strike are two of the most popular First Person Shooters available. These games are available for Windows PCs in first place. A growing number of people uses Linux as their major operating system and does not want to renounce their favored games.This HOWTO should make it possibly for anybody to get Steam working with Wine.



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Monday, February 05, 2007

Quick Tips to Find Files on Linux File System

One of the first hurdles that every Linux newbie working on Command Line Interface (CLI) bumps into is finding files on the file system. Administrators who switch from Windows environment are so much used to the click-n-find mentality that discovering files via Linux CLI is painful for them.



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