Without electricity blogs equal thin air..: July 2005

Make Firefox's Bookmark Toolbar useful and sexy ! ( for a browser that is.. )

You can have all your everyday shortcuts on your toolbar presented in this small and convenient way ( pictured above ). All you have to do is make a shortcut on the shortcut toolbar and erase the description. In case the site you want doesn't have a favicon ( the little icon presented left of its name on the browser ) you can use an extension called favicon picker found on updates.mozilla .
I hope you enjoy this one, oh and in case I won't post anything till my holidays coming late July, HAVE A NICE HOLIDAY EVERYONE, I promise to return with more ( and more frequent ) posts on the middle of August. The new season seems promising enough..

This is the coolest keyboard ever, right after a complete touchscreen one..

Apparently the Art Lebedev Studio in Moscow has designed the most I GOT TO HAVE YOU NOW keyboard ( up to date that is you never know ) that has OLED keys that change appearance according to what program you are running. Go to T3 website for more info..

Established paid products always give us trouble yet we are being negative on free ones..

Since the day I started using Skype I realized that whenever I am about to use a new technology ( especially a free one ) I always face it with a grain of skepticism and I am being negative when I encounter the first glitch, while what I should do is complain about the paid counterparts bad service ( e.g. Cell phone usage ). I do acknowledge that Skype for instance has its problems, but then again it’s free, while my cell phone carrier costs me a ton of money and cell phone reception is on occasions as bad as a Skype call can get.
On the other hand you have people complaining how hard it is to use a Linux distro and that using it can lead you to frustration all the while forgetting that using Windows can be the biggest pain in the a$$. So unconsciously we seem to forget all the faults of a paid program or service because we face those problems every day and we know they are there for sure and we seem to bitch whenever we hit a small problem on free and open source products. Perhaps we should think twice the next time we are about to curse on free stuff and instead we should turn that negative energy towards the more established cash draining resources.

Totally hooked on Linux.

After years of ignorance the Knoppix Live Linux CD showed me the path. Today I’ve loaded Linux from the aforementioned CD on my home machine for the fifth time and I must say I am getting totally hooked. I remembered the days I used to log on to the Internet through a Unix front-end along with all the basic commands I used to type. Then I realized that nowadays the distros with KDE can be fully customized at will (themes, icons and such) and to top it all off there’s WINE that helps you run Windows apps on your Linux desktop. Now that was the turning point to me. As long as shrink runs correctly I’m happy. Now if only I can make my winmodem work and I am off to new adventures, open source and community driven.
To all the people that believe Linux is hard to learn, I beg to differ. I felt at ease using it in just 5 one-hour sessions without any help from friends or gurus, although I would greatly appreciate some..