Soon after I installed Ubuntu 10.04 and began using Gwibber, Gwibber stopped working, not only Gwibber but I couldn’t get Ubuntu One or the ‘MeMenu’ to work at all either. I finally got around to trying to figure out where the problem lay. I’m not sure how the problem was created but this seemed to [...]
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browser wars…again
Thursday, 12 March 2009
So the wars have begun again. Mozilla released its third beta of firefox3.1. With the anticipation of IE8, Safari 4, Chrome, & Opera 10, Mozilla is deep in the middle battle. It seems that one of the biggest battle grounds of this war is over speed. I tried the beta 2 of FF and didn’t [...]
Internet Explorer on Ubuntu?
Thursday, 12 March 2009
Until recently I had been doing all my web design editing on my ubuntu laptop at home. I didn’t really think about the likely story that Internet Explorer would have issues with rendering the stuff I was doing. I wish I would of grabbed a screen shot of the madness that IE created with FUMCclass.com. [...]
chick tracts
Sunday, 15 February 2009
This morning at church someone made reference to “chick tracts”, then on TheResurgence their was also a reference to a chick tract. After following a link from TheResurgence to the ‘Holy Joe‘ tract at Chick.com, I browsed around the site. The testimonials were pretty funny, but not a as funny as “Papa” the tract to [...]
editing user css file
Wednesday, 11 February 2009
A post over at Ubuntu Productivity got me excited about editing the user-content.css file for firefox so I can save screen space by removing/editing unneeded things. The post was specifically about google docs and a one line of css to save 25px. Athough you can edit css for any site. I was able to save [...]