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Piclens for Linux
Piclens’s official line for Linux is:
Will Cooliris support Linux anytime soon? Our ideal plan is to eventually make our Firefox version work cross-platform, but its timing is not yet clear due to our current resource constraints.
So that sounds to me like “we don’t want to p-off Linux users but we’re not really [...]

Record your desktop
[I've written elsewhere about video screen capture (a.k.a. screencast) applications. This is KDE4 specific.]
If you’re using KDE4 and have found the screencast feature ( System Settings > Desktop > [All Effects] : Video Record) you’re probably wondering how to play the files it produces. By default (during your KDE4 session) when you toggle [...]

Mouse spins player instead of normal movement
When I started Enemy Territory: Return to Castle Wolfenstein (ET:RTCW) everything came up fine but as soon as I entered a server to play an online game then the mouse would mess up. Basically any movement would cause the character on screen to spin / rotate / turn around [...]

Short version: Alt-F3, M, then use cursor keys.
Alt-F3 enters the “window menu” or “window configuration menu” for the currently focussed application / program.
M is the underlined letter in Move, this will then bring up the “compass” cursor over the window to be moved.
Cursor keys - up, down, left, right - then move the window around.