The Telematics Freedom Foundation has just released their Media Center Comparison paper, where they compared the 10 most prominent FLOSS (for Free/Libre/Open Source Software) Media Center Projects. The projects compared were XBMC, MythTV, Boxee, Elisa, Neuros OSD, Freevo, My Media System, Entertainer, CenterStage+Plex and MediaPortal. The 20 page paper might be of great interest to [...]
Category Archives: Software
The Sales Guy vs. Web Dude (w/ English Subtitles)
July 16, 2008 – 01:02
This video has been floating around the web for a while. I realized that some peeps were looking for a subtitled version. Well, here you go..
Info: After much taping, editing, deleting, drinking and swearing we are proud to present… Sales Guy vs. Web Dude! A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. If [...]
Recommended Mac apps for switchers
April 21, 2008 – 17:39
Quicksilver: First thing I install on a new machine. It’s an application launcher, keyboard commands ninja… You might say “Whadda fok?” in the beginning due to the steep learning curve, but you will get used–sorry, married–to it.
Adium: A multiplatform chat client. Skins and plugins galore. Don’t need to look anywhere else, this is the app [...]
Add favicons to Firefox 3 Bookmark Toolbar
April 8, 2008 – 11:50
The default Firefox 3 Mac theme does not show favicons for bookmarks you’ve added to your Bookmarks Toolbar. This is probably a decision that comes with mimicking the Safari theme which doesn’t display favicons either. Put simply, it sucks!
Thanks to Daniel Einspanjer, who wrote a Stylish style called Mac bookmark toolbar favicon, you can have [...]
The next big step? Fantastic Google Spreadsheets feature
March 10, 2008 – 22:01
Google Spreadsheets has an outstanding feature hidden in the depths of its help pages.
It’s called GoogleLookup.
How does it work? Try this:
Open a Google Spreadsheet
Type Denmark in A2, France in A3 and Turkey in A4
Select A2:A4.
Holding the Ctrl (Win, Linux) or Ctrl+Option (Mac) button expand that selection by dragging the small blue square in the lower-right [...]
Delete iCal calendars in Leopard without notification
February 22, 2008 – 20:22
If you would like to delete a particular calendar in Leopard’s iCal, you get the dialog box that’s pictured above. If you choose the “Delete and Notify” option, Mail.app launches and starts sending messages to people who you have events scheduled with.
Why can’t I just delete a calendar without notifying the whole friggin’ world that [...]
FSJ on the Microsoft/Yahoo merger
February 3, 2008 – 23:24
Fake Steve Jobs has a classic post about the potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger called Monkey Boy’s three-legged race on his blog. Make sure you check this out. Here’s an excerpt:
But here’s the really dark part of all this. He knows it won’t work. He has to know this. He’s not stupid. The cultures will never fit [...]
