TechKnack

Last post I detailed how I installed Windows XP Home SP3 on my long-distended Windows installation, only to find a couple rather major issues. Here’s the follow-up.
I successfully removed SP3 (after clearing yet more space - it needs 376MB just to uninstall!). Upon the mandatory reboot, I first attempted to login to my [...]

A couple days ago, I booted into my Windows XP Home installation (yes, blasphemy, I know) in order to pull some pictures off of a Sony Memory Stick, since Ubuntu doesn’t seem to recognize the card when I plug it into my card reader. In the course of performing the Windows Updates that I [...]

KDE4 is great. I’ve always enjoyed the idea of widgets, ever since I discovered Konfabulator back on Windows. However, in the journey from KDE3.x (with panels) to KDE4 (with optional panels and plasmoids), one key component was lost: the quicklaunch menu.
For most plasmoids, you either get it with the default plasma [...]

In my last post, I “introduced” AdSense’s new Video Units. I also railed against the size requirements a little bit in that post.
Now. Taking a step back, let me ask a question. What is the purpose of ads (AdSense ads in particular)? For most legitimate cases, the purpose is to enhance [...]

Seems Google has one-up’d their AdSense service to include full-on YouTube videos. You can embed a video player in your website which will play YouTube videos with overlay ads.
To create an AdSense video unit, you must first own both an AdSense account and a YouTube account. Following the links from within the [...]