Category Archives: Tips

How To: Get Friends’ Birthdays on RSS or iCal

Something I’ve always wanted was an RSS feed of my friends’ birthdays in Facebook.  You see, I don’t login to Facebook everyday, but I do open Google Reader (my RSS reader of choice) everyday.  And the only way (until now) to see who’s birthday is today is to login.
But now, problem solved!
The Facebook application is [...]

Firefox 3 is Released!

Firefox 3 was released this morning!  Get excited, because version 3 is amazing.  I’ve been using the betas since January, and I love it.
Firefox 3 has amazingly low memory usage and loads javascript so fast.  Want that in non-tech terms?  Firefox 3 runs really fast and loads websites like Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo! Mail, Remember the [...]

Link: Howto Pull an All-Nighter

In honor of my all-nighter tonight, I am posting a link to a great howto: How to pull an all-nighter. This is good stuff, I follow most of these tips.

Howto: Using Firefox 3 While in Beta

I’ve been using Firefox 3 for about a month now, using the same method Lifehacker explains in this article, with Portable Firefox 3.  This allows you to keep your normal Firefox 2 install and not have to install Firefox 3 until it comes out of beta.
BTW, Firefox 3 is absolutely amazing.  The speed is incredible, [...]

WordPress 2.5

Chrismlindsey.com is now using WordPress 2.5, the latest stable release of the venerable open source blogging software.  The release notification is here, screencast of the new admin panel here, and the download and install information is here.
I really like the new admin panel in WordPress 2.5.  Most used items are placed prominently, while little used [...]

How To: Highlight Author Comments in WordPress

I recently realized that my new theme doesn’t display author comments in a different color than regular comments, so I struck out to fix the issue.
I regard author comment highlighting as a major feature or lack thereof for any theme. It should be mandatory, as it makes it easy to scan and find the [...]

New Version of jMemorize

Make sure to download the new version of jMemorize if you use the nifty open-source tool for flashcards.

UGA Schedule in iCal, Google Calendar

FYI, if you use iCal, Google Calendar, or any calendar software that allows the use of the iCal format, you can subscribe to UGA’s schedule.
The links:

iCal format
xml
html

A little information, if you are interested. I maintain this public calendar in Google Calendar. It is probably most helpful to UGA undergraduate students, as it does [...]

How To: Remove Header From First Page in OpenOffice

I do all of my school papers in OpenOffice.org (for more on OpenOffice, look in Wikipedia) these days, specifically in OpenOffice Writer (the open source equivalent of Microsoft Word). I come upon the same problem fairly frequently, so I am posting my solution here for everyone.
Many paper formatting guidelines call for no header on [...]