20120118 ffmpeg on Mac Os X Lion

Now that I’m using a Mac (with Mac OS) at work I’m sorely missing truly essential tools such as ffmpeg. The only binary build I could find (without having to download fink and a ton more packages that I don’t really need) was a build from 2006. Two thousand and six! Which in ffmpeg terms [...]

20120112 Make Chromium/Chrome blend seamlessly with Gnome 3

“Thanks to the power of CSS” you just need to install these extensions: Adwaita (GNOME 3) Adwaita (GNOME 3) scrollbars (this is optional. Makes the scrollbars look more Gnome-ish) With compliments to mr.doob for revealing me the secret!

20111204 Distro/desktop (s)hopping, part 4: GNOME 3 (+ extensions)

I finally succumbed to temptation and installed GNOME 3 on my machine.

20111103 “gnome-shell is a requirement”

[root@courgette ~]# pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases…  core is up to date  extra                   975.5K  744.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%  community               582.4K  608.1K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%  multilib is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade… resolving dependencies… looking for [...]

20111102 Breaking news: there’s an alternative to Google Reader

Tiny Tiny RSS. Here’s a demo. If you like it, you can install it in any server with PHP + (MySQL|PostgreSQL). If you like it a lot, you can enable the multiuser support and share your own online reader service with some friends. Then stop moaning worrying about Google datamining your interests or profiling your [...]