Published by Bart on Feb 18th, 2008 in Blog'n'Roll with 8 Comments
Compiz Fusion is collection of plugins for Compiz, an OpenGL based window manager for the X Window System (read: available for all Linux distributions, natively build in Ubuntu) that uses 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management.
Most of you have heard about that great piece of free software, and [...]
Tags: software, ubuntu
Published by Bart on Oct 11th, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 11 Comments
After few days of silence finally I’m back. Despite of the fact that most of readers are not interested in reading about more personal stuff in general, there are few things worth to share in a post. This time it’s a piece of my software ramblings - finally I’ve upgraded my Ubuntu to Feisty Fawn [...]
Tags: software, ubuntu
Published by Bart on Oct 3rd, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 3 Comments
Today I found one “another interesting website” - OldApps.com. This is really nice, I’ve used to think there is no way to get all these programs in early versions of development. Some of them must be pretty challenging to install, but damn I like to play with old apps and see their expansion in time. [...]
Tags: browser, software
Published by Bart on Sep 5th, 2007 in Webmaster Playground with 12 Comments
It shouldn’t happen to Microsoft, but DAMN it seems that unloved company from Redmond has made the first GOOD thing for a long time. Today’s release of Silverlight 1.0 might be a real milestone, below I listed the biggest advantages of this really great project. Check this out:
Silverlight is a cross-browser & cross-platform project (there’ll [...]
Tags: software, web-20
Published by Bart on Sep 3rd, 2007 in Webmaster Playground with 13 Comments
Today I found a chart depicting the evolution of web browsers. In this picture you can see a very interesting look at the past and how far we’ve come. For instance, I didn’t even know that Netscape Navigator is older than damn Internet Explorer. For those who cannot view Scalable Vector Graphics there’s a picture [...]
Tags: browser, software
Published by Bart on Jul 10th, 2007 in Webmaster Playground with 1 Comment
Today I have spent most of my time on adjusting CMS in order to prove the fact that Open Source software rocks the Web. So which Content Managing System I’ve picked up, I’ve chosen blog software naturally. It not easy to make an “ambitious” service with some advanced functionality on default version of Wordpress, after [...]
Tags: software, wordpress
Published by Bart on Apr 15th, 2007 in Blog'n'Roll with 5 Comments
You remember that famous ad banner in Opera Browser that probably was the biggest catch on the way to increase number of Opera users, don’t you? On September 20, 2005, with official appearance of version 8.50, Opera Browser started to be a freewarelicensed program. Don’t you want to find out why Opera Software, a Norwegian [...]
Tags: browser, opera, software