Gordaen's Blog

When I first started using OSX at work, it was a slightly rough transition. Some things work really well and other things are just not intuitive at all (like the key combination for taking screenshots). The one thing that I instantly loved was QuickSilver. It’s an application launcher and a lot more. The most basic [...]

Most Linux users spend quite a bit of time using the command line. It’s fast, efficient, and gives you bonus “cool points” with every command. If you’re anything like me, you’ve thought from time to time, “It sure would be nice to be able to do X” and then later stumbled across that exact feature. [...]

I seem to be stumbling across all kinds of little tips lately. Looking about the about:config part of Firefox, I saw browser.backspace_action was set to 1. I changed it to 0 and now backspace actually goes back rather than jumping around on the current page. If you are using Linux (or any other operating system) [...]

My desktop never had any problems with video playback in Ubuntu, but my laptop has. I was too lazy to really look into it, but basically several types of videos would be a weird blue hue. Adjusting the hue by 50% made the colors close to normal, but reds generally appeared too green so that [...]

Even though Wacom is the name in graphics tablets, I decided to go with a brand I hadn't heard of. My primary reason was because the Wacom tablet I wanted was a couple hundred dollars more than I wanted to spend. I possibly would have bought that one if I could have tested it in [...]