Category Archives: Reviews

Reviews of stuff.

Tiling Window Managers: How I Ended Up With Awesome

Below is my timeline of window managers, from what got me into tiling window managers, to where I am now, and why I think awesome is the best tiling window manager out there today. Ion3 This was my first tiling … Continue reading

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Opera Fixes @Mentions For Facebook

If you use Facebook and Opera a lot, you’ll know that for some odd reason, the @Mentions tagging doesn’t work with Opera out of the box, you have to mask the browser as firefox to get it to work which … Continue reading

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Linux Window Manager & Java Problems: Blank Window Fix

For a while I had problems with Java and my window managers because many of them were minimal and tiling and therefore not reparenting window managers, which meant that Java AWT applications experienced problems, usually showing up as a blank … Continue reading

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Google Webmaster Tools: Essential Tools for a Webmaster

If you’re running a website and you aren’t signed up for Google Webmaster Tools, something is seriously wrong in your cranium. If you don’t get a lot of visitors to your site it’s only slightly helpful, but it’s still helpful. … Continue reading

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sventon – An Alternative to FishEye and ViewVC

I was recently looking for an alternative to ViewVC for my tomcat application server and I thought I was in luck with FishEye by Atlassian, but it wasn’t right for the job because it was proprietary. So, looking for an … Continue reading

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