I walked into work today during a bit of a storm (also see the live Charlottetown webcam for the full wind effect)
Author: Steven Garrity
Emblems in Gnome
This might seem obvious to anyone who uses the Gnome desktop environment for Linux, but since most of you don’t, I thought it worth pointing out. In Gnome, You can put “emblems” on files or folders. The emblems are small icons that help differentiate and identify particular items. They work something like an graphical/icon version of Mac OS “labels” or GMail “labels”.
The small screenshot below shows (full-size screenshot) a few of the default emblems, and a few of my own custom emblems (the Windows and Acts of Volition icons).
There is a handy set of default emblems to start off (eg. Urgent, Web, Documents, New, Personal, Photos, etc.) and you can easily add your own custom emblems.
2005 will bring an extension for Thunderbird that integrates calendaring (tasks, events, etc.), codename: Lightning
Creative is not a noun
Pet peeve: people who use the word “creative” as a noun. Example:
“The ad will run on Friday, but the creative will be ready by Wednesday.”
If you say things like that, I don’t like you. Don’t bother offering justifications.
(disclosure: According to Dictionary.com, “creative” can be used as a noun to describe a person who “displays productive originality” – I don’t like that either, but it’s not as bad)
This two-page ad for Firefox will run in the Thursday, December 16, 2004 edition of the New York Times.
This article about “transitional” applications” describes pretty accurately how I ended up a Linux user.
Acts of Volition Radio Christmas: Session 17
While I’m a confessed scrooge about most things Christmas and I do hate most Christmas music, there is some truly great Christmas music. I share some of it in the seventeenth session of Acts of Volition Radio.
Christmas music that doesn’t suck. Recorded Saturday, December 11, 2004 by Steven Garrity. Run time: 32 min.
Session Seventeen Playlist:
- Crash Test Dummies – The First Noel
- Smashing Pumpkins – Christmastime
- Low – Long Way Around the Sea
- Barenaked Ladies (with Sarah McLauchlan) – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- Wintersleep – We Three Kings
For more, see the previous Acts of Volition Radio sessions.
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Feature Request: Google Suggest for Firefox
Weblogs are abuzz* today with the the Google Suggest beta featuring javascript-powered auto-complete in the search box.
I’d like to float an obvious (I think) suggestion for Firefox. I would like to see the Google search bar that is built-in to Firefox have this Google Suggestion auto-complete functionality, but with a real XUL flydown (like the auto-complete for ULRs in the address bar).
Yup, abuzz is actually a word.
I didn’t think the Tim Burton remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory could be as creepy as the original, but it is.
An Article Buried in Junk
I came across an article on LinuxWorld.com today that was so buried in other site features and advertising, that I had to share it.
This full-size screenshot (1.5MB) shows the full length of the page, with the actual article text highlighted in red. This smaller version gives a good feel of how much of the page is used for the actual article.
The website also offers a printer-friendly version of the article that is much easier to read, but even the printer version has an animated Flash advertisement.
I never did get around to reading the article.