Archive for the ‘Helpful Things’ Category

Google Voice Review

Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine and he mentioned how he had Google Voice but he never used it.  I was curious about it, so I researched it and found out that Google Voice is a phone manager service.  I’m going to quote heavily from the website because there is so much [...]

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Gnome-Do 08.1.3

I made mention in an earlier post how I was having issues with the Ping.fm plugin that goes with Gnome-Do.  Well, I figured it out and now I’m pinging away without having to visit the website at all *sighs contentedly*.
This is just one of the amazing things I love, love, love about the “Do.”  Gnome-Do [...]

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Help with CSS tables

Apparently one can do tables in CSS..I thought there was a way but I didn’t know it.  I suck at tables in html..Every time I look at the code for a table in html, it makes my head hurt.  I would say it’s Greek to me, but I can read Greek and it’s a lot [...]

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Frostwire

Earlier, when I logged on to Frostwire for the first time since installing Linux Mint on my new laptop, I got the usual message that Frostwire was updating.  Not a big surprise there.  They either can’t get things right or they just like to update a lot.  Either way, fine with me since they have [...]

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Resolved Issue with FeedBurner Headline Animator not coughing up the code

For any newb that has just gotten FeedBurner..I will be doing a review on it later..but first..
I read a post or two (that was never resolved) about how a couple of users were using the headline animator (an awesome feature) to create feed widgets.  The problem was that while trying to get the code, the [...]

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Gnome-Do

Usually I review new distros of Linux or web browsers.  Today I am going to do a different kind of review..that of an application in Linux that I have just discovered.  Okay to be fair, I have known about it for some time, but i couldn’t figure out how to use it and I never [...]

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Scrambled Brain Anyone?

Wow.  Today I have set some kind of record surely.  I got online this morning at 9:30 in the morning.  It is now 12:45 am.  Yes, I am surely insane.  Why do I put myself through the torture?  I am trying to get everything situated just how I want it on my website and for [...]

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Couple of things relating to the AWN dock and its icons

First of all, I just want to say, congrats to whoever came up with the dock idea; it is totally great!  No more ugly panels!!  (Unless you like ugly panels, then it isn’t you who will use it anyway lol)  This little mini-guide is for new users of AWN dock who, like me, do not [...]

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Getting Flashplayer for Opera 9.5 with Debian Linux

This is basically a repeat of the blog I posted on my Opera page…It’s hard for us silly Linux newbs to know where to go for help so the more I reach with this the better…..
I intend to write a brief tutorial for the “hopeless Linux newb” like me! This blog might make it a [...]

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