I have a pretty large collection of wallpapers (and it’s growing all the time), but usually I’m content to just kind of let my desktop stay essentially the same for a few weeks, and then change it manually as I see fit. Nevertheless I thought it’d be cool to try out a little app I’ve [...]

One of my favorite hobbies is blogging…I love to blog about movies, music, theology, and especially Linux-related technology. Over the past couple years, ProductiveLinux.com has become (to me) a very successful blog. With around 1200 subscribers and 8,000 average page views each month, I been given the privilege to have at least a small voice [...]

I recently expressed my frustration with the lack of good clients for Linux that effectively aggregate Twitter & Identi.ca.
In the comments to that post, Kari suggested I try out PeopleBrowsr.com, and I have to say…I’m pretty impressed. PeopleBrowsr takes pretty much all your social networks, and allows you to view updates in streams arranged in [...]

Managing multiple social networks is rarely easy, and almost never fun. I’m always trying to streamline and simplify, and one thing that’s really been eating away at me lately is having to handle two microblogging communities.
I know there are ways to have my tweets show up as dents, and my dents as tweets…cross posting really [...]

So, I recently upgraded to latest Firefox (more on that later) and–to cut the chase here–I’m sick of how it continues to blatantly ignoring dark GTK themes. The bookmarking dialog is unreadable, and the “Awesome” bar urls look absolutely horrible (bright blue on gray, anyone?). While Firefox is still technically usable, these issues cause real [...]