Reading PDFs on Kindle for free
After much anticipation, I have finally received my new Kindle 2 in the mail. Before I purchased the Kindle, I was assured by Amazon’s Kindle purchase page that PDF was natively supported. As I have a rather large collection of PDF eBooks and documents from Project Gutenberg and more, I was sold. Having my entire library with me (which would weigh a few metric tons if printed to paper) would now weigh only 10 ounces and fit in the palm of my hand. Brilliant!
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If you haven’t used iMacros for Firefox yet, you’re missing out. You can do things like record your browsing habbits (button clicks, entered text, responses to dialogs, etc) to automate them. It has CSV support, so you can even use stored data to dynamically execute macros, directly from Firefox on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Read Moreabout:config hacks in Firefox 3
This is going to be a quick tutorial of a few of the cool things you can do with the Firefox 3 about:config window.
The about:config window lets you change pretty much all of Firefox’s settings. Be careful when you’re adjusting your settings, as you can give Firefox brain damage 
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I don’t want to say that this is for the guys I work with… but yeah. This is for the guys I work with. This is the only language (most) of you know, and primary to most…. don’t you think you should at least understand it?
Read MoreMaking the Ubuntu Switch Easier – 30 Essential Linux Applications
Below is a collection of cloned applications that I used on Windows that made the switch to Ubuntu (almost) seamless.
Read MoreInstalling Valve’s STEAM and Counterstrike on Ubuntu
This is only my experience downloading and installing Steam and Valve games like Counterstrike 1.6 and TFC on Linux. Your experience may vary.
Read MoreGuide to Roms (console game emulation) on Ubuntu
Gaming console emulation on PC is nothing new. An emulator is a program that mimics the hardware and firmware from a gaming console (such as the Super Nintendo), to play roms. Roms are just computerized copies of console games. For PSX and other CD-based systems Roms are called ISOs. This guide is just my personal notes on emulating the different game consoles on Ubuntu Linux (Feisty 7.04 in this article).
Read MoreUbuntu Linux Games – Top Picks
If you’ve switched to Ubuntu (as I have) or any other Linux distribution, you may consider the following free (and in most cases open-source) games, as they’ve been favorites of mine for some time now.
Read MoreColorization Using Optimization
This is a bit advanced, but the outcome is very cool. This process takes a black and white (or color) image, lets you scribble in some colors, and the colorization application accurately fills in and shades the rest. It can even do animated clips, as shown below.
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