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I like wordpress as a blogging platform, but I do not care for the online post editor. In fact, I have yet to use an online editor that I have been thrilled about so I use off line, desktop editors.
When I am in the middle of some code, and I want to blurt something [...]
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I did a small update to Afae this weekend. The main purpose of the update was Eclipse Europa was having probles with the snippet inserting code. It was gacking on a height setting which was causing any snippet that had a dialog to fail. I hadn’t been using Afae for a while so the bug [...]
Category: Linux, Mac, Web Apps, Windows | 3 Comments
One of the things I like about using Git is the fact you don’t need hosting to use it. However, there are some benefits to using a Git server - one of which being you can browse the repository online.
I stumbled on a Git hosting provider today called github. The prices are good, and they [...]
Category: Chinese, Linux, Mac, Windows | Leave a Comment
If you like the idea of the Chinese Word of the Day widget for Mac OS X, but you would like to get the word of the day else where, try the Google Gadget version sponsored by ChineseFirstStep.com.
You can add the gadget to your iGoogle home page (which I am starting to dig), and access [...]
Category: Linux, Mac, Miscellanea, Windows | Leave a Comment
One of my favorite applications, VLC, appears to have a remote security vulnerability. The vulnerability is with the way VLC handles subtitles. The vulnerability is on all supported platforms - which means Mac and Linux in addition to Windows.
VLC is a media application that can play almost any kind of media file - it’s a [...]