Tag Archives: tech

New Deskbar Plugin

Since I’ve been stuck at home and can mostly only type one handed, I decided to work on my Deskbar plugins to try and keep myself busy and forget about the pain in my sholder and back. As a result, I put together a new Deskbar plugin called Wayd(What Are You Doing) that allows [...]

Short update

Forgot to blog about it when I released it, but I put together a Twitter plugin for Deskbar. Also I released a new version of the Gajim plugin. You can download both them from my Deskbar plugin page.

A little trip planning

Today we managed to get Placeaware.com ready to release to the world. It’s an interactive trip planner with some nifty features. Play around with a few of the live sites or watch the screen cast.

Voting

Had a perfectly normal voting experience today. People were taking an extra long time to vote, however. Not sure if that was because of the new machines or because of the large amount of items to be voted on, 8 screens total. Since the new machines have absolutely no paper trail, I [...]

Chesspark

Tofu’s mystery project, a jabber based chess game/environment, finally went beta yesterday. It’s called chesspark, go check it out.

Latest hacks

Lately I’ve fallen in love with Deskbar(think OSX Quicksilver). I put together a couple of plugins to make it more productive for me.
Also upgraded my laptop and desktop at home to EdgyEft. Edgy continues Gnomes slow steady progression of polish, speed and simplicy. It rocks!
In other software news, Brian pushed out an [...]

Blog Update

Pardon any oddities, an upgrade is in progress so that I can play with Widgets and maybe simplify some things.

VM

On my laptop I have a 10G XP partition. It’s the only Windows I own and came with the laptop. Currently, I have a need for Windows, to run SharpDevelop(WinCE code for the GPS project) and for testing of another “secret project”. Since the HD on my laptop is on the small [...]

Drones among us

Fear the future…. and on a related note Drone Modding(a work in progress).

MySpace is the new AOL

What do you get when you mix three teenage girls, MySpace and a home XP PC? Was over at a friends house last night and noticed that one of the girls was attempting to launch Firefox, at first I thought cool, then noticed that it never opened. Being me… I couldn’t help [...]