Office Supplies Fetish: Hanging Buckets Organization Rack

Yes, even a geek can sometimes get excited about considerably low-tech things...and if they involve IKEA, one of my favorite place to find materials for "furniture-hacks", especially in their scratch and dent section, then I can naturally not hold back than to blog about it. And guess what I will be doing over my lunch break? Have I mentioned that I have an IKEA literally around the corner from my office?
It really looks like a great idea for a workplace or even a garage, workshop and such, and from what I remember, IKEA has all kinds of different attachments for this system! Go and have a look after the jump!


Via Lifehacker: Office Supplies Fetish: Hanging Buckets Organization Rack

PortableApps Menu and Suites 1.5 released!

If you are like me and often have to support MS/WIN machines, and carry a USB drive with your favorite utilities around, you are probably familiar with the PortableApps menu and suites. It always was a great way to launch and organize all the utilities I schlep around on my WIN-Troubleshooter-USB-Drive, but there were a few minor annoyances especially with adding your own programs that are not part of PortableApps, e.g. I carry a lot of SysInternals stuff with me. Prior to this release, there was no way of renaming the items that are displayed, or even being selective which executables are picked up by the menu without workarounds. Well, that's all gripes of the past - the new version does all of that and more, and in case you care, it looks a little nicer too...

So head on over and grab your copy - I certainly will!

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Cam on the sushi conveyor...

Just because it is a beautiful Sunday and this is totally pointless I need to share it with you all...this is what happens when a camera makes the rounds on the Kaiten:

Linux on the HTC Blue Angel

I think I have found a new challenge - I have this aging HTC Blue Angel laying around at home. Now the really cool thing about this PocketPC Phone Dinosaur is that it is an incredibly nice, big, QVGA screen and a very powerful XScale PXA263 400 MHz CPU that successfully run at around 600MHz, which is leaps and bounds faster than most of the current PocketPC Phones on the market.
Unfortunately it has been collecting dust since quite a while now, which is really a shame as I am sure I can come up with 101 projects once I can get Linux running on it! I am not too worried about the GSM portion of the unit, as it will probably never ever have a SIM in it again, but the rest could be very useful. I am still trying to make a nice all-house-HTPC remote, and over wifi this would be the perfect little thing to use. There are some efforts already underway as a starting point...any suggestions or ideas out there???

Install Google Chrome without Google updater

If you are like me, and rather take care of your own updates instead of having some task running on your computer all the time and checking for updates to a particular software, but still like to use Google Chrome, then there is a solution right from Google for you now!
Needless to say, that means that from now on you will have to manually update Chrome, but what does it have that feature for under HELP->ABOUT! I much rather do that when there is a new release that I find useful, especially since every little piece of software wants to install it's own little updater these days - Oh the luxury of having all this memory and processing power available to us! (insert sarcasm here!).

So go ahead and grab your not-updating-when-it-feels-like-it copy of Google Chrome here!

How-to manually add items to dmenu

Dmenu is one of my favorite parts of #! CrunchBang Linux, which as most of you know is my favorite distribution, and I keep crunchbanging every computer that I can get my grimy little fingers on, but it was always somewhat of a mystery to me how dmenu actually picks up the programs it can find - well, that was until tonight, when I took a look at the associated scripts.

Let's say you installed a little python script that you want to be able to call from dmenu - I placed it into /usr/share/ with the hope dmenu would just pick it up magically, but no such luck - would have been too easy anyways. It is not much harder though, because all it needs is for you to create a symbolic link to the executable you want to start inside /usr/bin/ and dmenu will automagically find it! To do so, just type

sudo ln /path/to/your/file /usr/bin/symlinkname -s

and to make it a little more clear, let's say we have a program called “helloworld” in /usr/share/samples/ and want to call it from dmenu by the name “helloworld”. For this to work we would type:

sudo ln /usr/share/samples/helloworld /usr/bin/helloworld -s

Ummm…yes, that's it already - short HOWTO, but good to know none-the-less!

Better Interface for Uploading Gmail Attachments

Awesomeness right here!!! One of the things I have been waiting for. See how easy it is to make a geek happy? Just this little bit of additional functionality in gMail will make me smile all day and every single time I have to attache a bunch of files to an email! Thank you, gMail team!



via Google Operating System Blog:
Better Interface for Uploading Gmail Attachments