TechKnack

A while ago, I posted how to edit Konqueror’s “Create New” menu. Unfortunately, installing the KDE4 desktop seems to nullify this trick. This is because KDE4 redirects Konqueror from /usr/share/templates to /usr/lib/kde4/share/templates . Annoying, really. There are two solutions.
First solution is to copy your files from /usr/share/templates to /usr/lib/kde4/share/templates . [...]

Occasionally you’ll be coding out a site, and you want a “sticky footer”, a footer that sticks to the bottom of the browser viewport or the bottom of the main content section, whichever is lowest.
There are a few notable sites that have posted methods for doing this, but the short answer is it doesn’t work [...]

After upgrading to FireFox 3, I noticed that ThunderBird was no longer opening links in FireFox. Unfortunately, there are no Preference entries to modify how ThunderBird opens links, which means going into the Advanced Config Editor (the ThunderBird version of about:config). Just Another Tech Blog (among others) details how to configure ThunderBird to [...]

While many people in this digital age prefer to buy music from iTunes (or other online stores) or, probably more commonly, pirate their music through torrents, I prefer to have the physical disc. I don’t use the actual disc much; I rip the songs to my hard drive, and never see the disc again. [...]

Seems I’ve got a lot of social networking accounts under my belt nowadays. From FaceBook to Twitter to Digg to Blogger. While I would like to put a “find me on” widget in this blog’s sidebar, it would just add to the clutter. So, in lieu of that, I’ll just put links [...]