December 2006
3 posts
Freevo Technical Details
As a follow up to my previous, somewhat nonsensical post, I thought I should provide some technical details on what Freevo is, what it does and why I wanted to use it.
The why is pretty simple. I wanted an easy to navigate front end to my collection of movies, photos, and music. Granted, a lot of good front ends exist. Nautilus doesn’t completely suck anymore and is becoming pretty...
Freevo
An emerging story of this blog is convergence. I’ve talked about how cool it would be to surf the web on the DS (Lik-sang closing shop put a damper on that), the neatness of the Sony Mylo mobile platform, amongst other things.
This is a bit of a surprise to me, since I’ve always been somewhat anti-convergence. To me, it goes opposite of picking the right tool for the job. For...
Useful OSX tools
While I really like OSX, there are still somethings that I miss about good X11 install. One of those is multiple desktops. Therefore I was forced to google and discovered Virtue Desktops. The transition between two desktops is pretty snazzy and the default key-bindings are pretty sensible. The only thing I don’t like is now difficult it is to move a window to another virtual console. ...