G-Loaded Journal

Chances are that your removable media preferences in GNOME are set in a way so that CDs get mounted automatically. There is a usability bug that comes into play whenever you try to blank an already written rewritable CD or DVD with Gnomebaker or directly with the command-line tool (cdrecord). An error message that the…

Sony Ericsson K320i – Advanced Feature List

May 11, 2007

Hardware 4 Comments

Mobile phones have never been one of my interests, but lately I decided to spend some more time exploring their capabilities. This includes phone maintenance, data management, data synchronization, networking etc. I do not own any expensive cellular phones (this is a matter of principal). Currently, I use an old Siemens S45 and a Sony-Ericsson…

Smart Bookmarks in Epiphany

May 11, 2007

Smart Bookmarks is an extension for the Epiphany browser. Admitedly, its name or description in the browser extensions panel does not help the user understand what exactly it is about. What is a smart bookmark after all?

How to create a Windows bootable CD with mkisofs

April 25, 2007

Desktop 7 Comments

Generally, the only reason for which you may need to create a bootable Windows CD is when you have updated the operating system installation files with the latest Service Pack (slipstream). Even in this case, chances are that most users will rather use standard windows software to create the bootable CDs than mkisofs under Linux,…

bbPress for WordPress

April 25, 2007

Web Applications 2 Comments

Some of you might have noticed that there have been some changes in the way readers can interact with g-loaded.eu over the last month. Comments and trackbacks are being disabled 20-30 days after the publication of a post, while a new facility, a discussion board, has been set up in order to compensate for the…

Screenshot of a menu under GNOME: ROUND 2

March 15, 2007

Linux 2 Comments

A few days ago, I had written a post about the difficulties I had encountered in an attempt to capture an image of a menu under GNOME. A reader, “mysurface“, who, by the way, has written an article about taking screenshots, was 100% positive that, after issuing ImageMagick’s import command, it is still possible to switch between running applications with Alt-Tab and trigger menus with Alt, before using the mouse cursor to select the area that will be captured.
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CC Configurator plugin version 1.0 is out!

March 15, 2007

Web Applications No Comments

I proudly present the latest and greatest version 1.0 of the Creative Commons configurator plugin for WordPress. The code was almost re-written from scratch, but now the plugin is feature-rich, more flexible and is 100% ready for localization! Greek users will find the Greek translation at the plugin home page. This is the first time…

BIP IRC Proxy

March 10, 2007

A while back I had mentioned dircproxy as a solution for an IRC proxy server. Although dircproxy is good and effective, recently I’ve been reading many positive comments about another similar application, BIP. I hope I find some free time in the next days to give it a shot. Judging by its extensive feature set,…

Print a Man Page

March 5, 2007

Linux 2 Comments

Reading a man page using a terminal application is easy, but I doubt if it would ever win a convenience award. Sometimes, it is necessary to print the man page. I can recommend two ways of doing this.

Organizing Mailing List messages with Evolution

March 5, 2007