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Woot! We’ve gone social!

In a fit of total instanity, I decided to check outthis whole Social Networking thing, so I will be playing arounf with options of interfacing with Facebook and eventually Twitter. I expect to be testing several WordPress plugins and will do my best to keep this post updated with the results. Current Plugin: Wordbooker

How to Create a Desktop Launcher in Ubuntu Linux 10.04

This is a short how-to on creating a nice desktop launcher in Ubuntu 10.04. Desktop launchers act as convenient shortcuts to starting programs which do not appear in the main menu. For this example, we will create a shortcut for an installed viewer. Right-click on your desktop. This opens a blank launcher creation window Leave [...]

How To Install the Cool VL Viewer on Linux

Since one of my personal favorite viewers is Henri Beauchamp’s excellent Cool Viewer, I thought I might give a short how-to on installing it on Linux, as it sometimes seems to cause some confusion. You will need to download the Second Life Viewer and the current release of the Cool Viewer diff files. My recommendation [...]

Hello world!

I know that “Hello World” is the default sample post of new WordPress installations, but I decided to leave it because it is also the most common “first” program that gets written in many scripting tutorials. Unlike my previous attempt at running a blog, this time we are focused and have a renewed sense of [...]

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