I am now also running for an At-Large position on the California Libertarian Party Executive Committee.
I will be driving out to Long Beach on Friday for the convention and I guess we will see how this goes.
Also running for…. Read Post »
The people that brought us VLC, the simple Swiss Army Knife of video players annonced a few days ago that they are working on VLMC (VideoLAN Movie Creator). Their goal is for it to be a free video editor for semi-professional videos that has a simple interface. Oh and it will be multi platform for you Mac, Linux and Windows fans. SO far the videos and screenshots are very promising for their pre-alpha work.
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I just built a new desktop over last month to this one and here is what I have.
MSI P45NE02 Motherboard
Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66 GHz Processor
4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 Mhz RAM
MSI GeForce 210 512MB GPU
350 PSU
Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
Mobo & CPU: $150
RAM: $70
GPU: $25 After Rebate
PSU: Reused one I got for $25 two years ago
Case: Reused an old PII case I like.
HD: Reused 80GB Maxtor PATA drive I got for $40 a while back
DVD-RW Drive : Reused PATA drive I got 4 years ago.
Next month I will purchase a SATA HD for $50 or less.
But the total that came out of pocket for this build is: $245
I like to see what I can build on the low end when I build machines.
Have you ever wanted to apply your own custom themes to sites such as Google or Facebook? Well there are several options for you to do so. In this post I am going to cover the use of the Stylish Add-on for Mozilla Firefox.
1. If you don’t have Firefox [Get it at this link!]
2. Get the Stylish Add-On. Click Add to Firefox and install. A restart of Firefox will be required for the Add-on to complete the installation.
3. Go to userstyles.org. There you can search for and select styles to install with Stylish. You can also use most of these scripts with Greasemonkey, IE7 or Opera but Stylish offers the ability to modify these styles if you like.
4. When you have found a user style that you like simply select the install with stylish button and press the install button on the widow that appears.
Here is an example of what the author page for Facebook – Dark Static page looks like using Stylish:
Some of the Lady’s may prefer Facebook – Dark Shiny Purple:
There are styles for numerious pages out there so find ones that you like. If you are adventures you can even make themes of your own
Theme styling for your favorite web sites! Read Post »
