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my new video card came with a bumper sticker... O_o
@AdamLeahey probably drink it and quickly regret it
Dear Internet: What's the absolute cheapest, worst bourbon available? Don't worry, it's for science.
@ConstantineXVI: I'd say Wamu if it existed anymore. It was great when I had them in Cali, free checks and a good web site
@ConstantineXVI: oh, herf derf, just got the "getting shot at" remark :P
@ConstantineXVI: never heard of it... don't know too many people in the military though
@androidcentral: also, the Epic is $199 on Amazon with no rebates, but it's still showing as a "pre-order"
@ConstantineXVI: not sure about the first requirement, but I've yet to be shot at Chase
@ConstantineXVI and if I'm going to start a new series, I'd like to have it all on my Kindle...
@ConstantineXVI that's about how old my copy is. friend loaned it to me in high school... no idea where it's gotten off to
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Author Archives: Zach
Lookit 0.3 hits Beta
Just the other day, I pushed out the first beta of version 0.3 of my screenshot utility, Lookit. Just a few minutes ago, I pushed out the second. Lookit is a tool inspired by TinyGrab for quickly uploading and sharing … Continue reading
More on the Evo
I’ve now had my new toy for a little over a month. Shortly after my last post, I took the plunge and rooted my Evo and have since been playing with some of the different ROMs that are available for … Continue reading
HTC EVO 4G
A little over a week ago, I picked up my first Android phone, the EVO 4G on Sprint. For a year before that I was using a Palm Pre, so I thought I’d take some time to do a comparison … Continue reading
A look at Lookit 0.3
Well, maybe “look” isn’t quite the right word, there’s not a lot of GUI to look at. However, I’ve spent a large portion of the day figuring out how to get around two of the more annoying issues in the … Continue reading
New Look
Don’t worry, you’re in the right place! Unless of course, you weren’t trying to find this blog, in which case you’re in the wrong place. I’m tinkering with the layout looking for something cleaner.
Lookit 0.2 Released
It’s a new project, and I’m moving fast. I just pushed Lookit 0.2 to bzr as well as the Lookit PPA. Changes include support for Imgur as an upload option, a warning when using a non-compositing window manager, Ubuntu Mono … Continue reading
Lookit 0.1 Released
After around two weeks of coding in my freetime, I yesterday uploaded the first public release of my screenshot utility, Lookit. Unlike my bash script, this version has a proper GUI and no longer relies on external utilities like scrot … Continue reading
Building a GUI for my screenshot uploader
Today’s project goes back to what I was working on a couple of days ago with my screenshot upload script. I’ve been building a GUI with PyGTK to manage connections to the server that hosts the screenshots. I made a … Continue reading
Generating Gnome Rotating Backgrounds
The version of Gnome in Ubuntu 10.04 has the ability to automatically change through a defined set of files. Unfortunately, there’s no simple way to do this via the gui (I originally assumed that you just assigned a folder to … Continue reading
Fast screenshot sharing in Linux, Part 2
So, thanks to a post on twitter, I’ve found a better way to snag screenshots by using scrot instead of compiz. This doesn’t give the graphical corruption that imagemagick does while compiz is running, and has the added bonus a … Continue reading