Posted on January 26, 2010, 6:51 pm, by Logan Koester, under
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A project I've been working on watches Twitter for some search keywords, with the goal of finding new customers, jobs, items for sale, etc. For example, a computer repair shop might want to watch for the keywords "laptop" and "broken", and then reply to tweets where they think they can help.
But as anyone who uses [...]
Posted on October 7, 2009, 5:36 am, by Logan Koester, under
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Ion™ is a tiling tabbed window manager designed with keyboard users in mind.
In recent years I've been a GNOME / Compiz guy, but while I've enjoyed it's tight integration with Ubuntu and flashy effects, I've always missed the simplicity of so-called minimalist window managers, mainly fvwm. These days, however, practically everything I do happens inside [...]
Posted on March 14, 2009, 9:04 pm, by Logan Koester, under
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Being the closest thing we have to a native uTorrent in Linux, I really like Deluge. But, at least for me, it uses a seemingly impossible amount system resources. Since a Bittorrent client is the kind of thing I want to leave running in the background, I needed a lighter alternative.
I don't see any real [...]
Posted on January 8, 2009, 12:02 am, by Logan Koester, under
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I was a fan of ubuntu-eee (now known as EasyPeasy) for a long time, but after upgrading to EasyPeasy 1.0 on my 20gb EEE 901 ($379.99) tonight, I've decided it's time to move on, and I'm happy I chose Linux Mint. Here's what I've done so far to get it running great:
Install Linux Mint
Since the [...]