I saved about one third of my first visit (non-cached) bandwidth for my Wordpress blog with a simple alteration to my .htaccess file. Here’s how …

Fresh from installing Fontmatrix 0.5.0 from SVN and it’s rocking my socks. It ticks nearly all, if not all, the boxes as far as what I need from a font manager. Here are a couple of screenshots (from KDE 4.2 beta on Kubuntu) showing some of the innovative features implemented. [Details on compiling at the end].

The first question is “Are there any font managers for linux?”. Here I mean an application for sorting and categorising fonts that presents ready previews and allows for easy font selection. Of course there are lots of other useful features, like creating printable “font books” … The answer is that there doesn’t seem to be […]

Well, I thought it would be nice to do some demo’s for using Inkscape. First up though I need to find a decent way to create video screencaps, preferably with audio and notes – though a video editor could be used later with the resulting video. I used Google and Sourceforge to expand my search […]

So you’ve just loaded up Wordpress, Textile, Blogger or whatever, grabbed a default template and now you want to mark the site as your own … add some funky backgrounds.