Archive for April, 2006

Install SharpMusique!

SharpMusique has been around for a while, but I just got around to posting about it. It’s a very light-weight, cross-platform alternate front-end to the iTunes Music Store! It’s surprisingly full-featured:
Features:

Preview songs
Signup for an account
Buy songs and albums
Redownload songs that you bought with SharpMusique
Redeem Pepsi caps
Redeem gift certificates

Of course, this is more useful under Windows, [...]

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Yahoo! Mail beta

Get in on the Yahoo! Mail Beta right now! Download Squad has step-by-step directions for forcing your way into the Yahoo! Mail beta:
Been dying to try the new AJAXed-out Yahoo! Mail Beta? Well it turns out it only takes a few simple steps to switch your Yahoo! Mail account over to the new hotness.
It actually [...]

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Perri-Air!

While Spaceballs was not a great movie, it had some amusing parts. One of those involved Perri-Air, premium canned air. As is often the case, life imitates art!
A new group of manufacturers are marketing canned oxygen as a luxury pick-me-up, for when regular air won’t do. It comes in flavors, and has been likened to [...]

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Get your game on with SuperGamer-1

Are you a Linux user who’s tired of having your Windows buddies say, “Yeah, but you can’t game on Linux”? Then the GSuperGamer-1 Live DVD is for you! What better way to show off Linux’s gaming abilities than with this DVD.
The SuperGamer-1 is a modification of the famous and well respected PCLinuxOS distribution optimized [...]

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Madpenguin really, really likes Ubuntu

MadPenguin has tried out a preview of Dapper Drake (the forthcoming Ubuntu 6.06) and really, really likes it. I mean in a disturbing, get-a-room-already kinda way:
Ubuntu 6.06 promises to be one of the best distributions to come out in 2006. Not only does it perform with the best of them, it has a perfect compliment [...]

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Procmail primer

Procmail can be either a blessing or a curse. Once you get the hang of the syntax and write a few recipes, it can be a major timesaver. But learning the syntax can be a real pain in the ass. Fortunately, there are a few great tutorials on procmail. And linux.com has a primer for [...]

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Lower Firefox’s memory use (Windows-only)

Another amazingly useful Firefox hack, this one instantly reduces Firefox’s memory usage on Windows.
This little fix will move Firefox to your hard drive when you minimize it, and as a result it will take up less than 10MB of memory while minimized. So far, from my experiences with using this today, when you maximize Firefox [...]

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