Packaging and ppa firsts (for me at least)

Today I spent the day messing about with local packaging and manually uploading to my ppa. I had already done some ppa and packaging using quickly but its a lot easier than I thought to do it manually. So what I ended up with is jorge’s chromium google apps package but one that works with [...]

Google chrome hidden but awesome feature

Ok at the moment chrome does most of what firefox does at the moment but not much difference. I found a button in chrome that does something awesome.

What that says is “Create application shotcuts”. No its not a funny way to say bookmark it to the desktop. Its the exact same idea as mozilla [...]

Oh OGG when will it be your time….?

I’m an optimist, specifically for ubuntu and the open source/free software world. One thing that puzzles me is OGG Theora and Vorbis. We see Wikimedia (Wikipedia, wikidictonary…etc) using OGG technologies as well as mozilla, google and opera embracing it. It is included by default in nearly all linux distributions (I say nearly all because I [...]

Google Chrome

I downloaded chrome from the dev preview thingy and I have to say im very happy. The level of detail is bloody awesome, like they added a repo for updates and they have an option to respect the gtk theme you have installed. I never thought chrome would be that unstable since the main engine [...]

Google chrome weirdness with basic html

I just looked at my site and google chome doesnt understand height or width tags for images. I only use it for the ubuntu logo for my link to the ubuntu website but it looks really large in Chrome. Firefox and internet explorer handle dimension changes fine but chrome has some trouble.
On the website front [...]