Entries from October 2008

October 11, 2008

Asus VK222H 22″ Monitor Review

Last weeks ago, I anounced that I bought an Asus VK222H 22″ Monitor from Newegg. I got it 3 days after that posting – record shipping (good job Newegg!). You can now get this monitor for $179.99 after mail-in-rebate ($20 less than it was one weeks ago). I have yet to recieve my rebate from [...]

October 11, 2008

GIMP 2.6.1 Review and its Future

Gimp is an image editing program.  It has support on on the most moder operating systems including Unix (Linux), OS X, and Windows. If you can’t afford Photoshop (or don’t want to steal it), GIMP is the best alternative out there – I encourage you to at least download it and try it.
For those that [...]

October 8, 2008

DreamHost Now With Unlimted Space!

If you have a DreamHost account you can upgrade for free in the Web Panel.
If you actually VOLUNTEER to be one of the first moved to the new system
your account will be “upgraded” to unlimited disk and bandwidth, forever.
Of course, it’s not like you’ll use it, and it’s of course subject to our
“unlimited” policy. If [...]

October 7, 2008

AllTray – Dock any application to tray

AllTray, which can be found in the Synaptic (System -> Administation – > Synaptice Package Manager) is an application that docks applications and programs to the system tray. This can be useful when you have a program that you always run and don’t want minimized or closed (FireFox, Calculator, etc;).  AllTray has a GUI and [...]

October 5, 2008

Remove Wilber in Gimp 2.6

Gimp 2.6 just came out. It is an improvement over 2.4 but bugs still need to be fixed.
Anyways, run the following to remove Wilber (the fox) where the toolbox menubar used to be:
echo “(toolbox-wilber no)” >> ~/.gimp-2.6/gimprc
in the command line.
The creators don’t like this, but the image is a waste of space.