by Dave | Apr 14, 2009 | Improving Apps
Does your free app have a “donate” button? Why not? If you’re thinking that it’s not finished yet or that nobody would pay anything to use it, trust me- you’re wrong. It’s always shocking to me to stumble upon an app that looks...
by Dave | Mar 28, 2009 | Improving Apps
It may be that now you’re thinking “Wow, I need to e-mail my users!” Yet, because of the way the Linux app community works, it’s extremely likely you only know a few actual users of your app. There may be thousands of users out there that have...
by Dave | Mar 28, 2009 | Tinker Blog
Firefox was driving me crazy- I open tabs most of the time with CTRL + click and even though the option to open the tab right away isn’t checked that’s what it does. Happily, I just found this note with a tip on making Firefox open tabs in the background:...
by Dave | Mar 22, 2009 | Tinker Blog
If you don’t know what these are, GNOME and KDE are a bunch of pieces that represent your computer. Things like the buttons you click are provided by these two desktop environments. There are others too. Both GNOME and KDE are acronyms whose meanings mean...
by Dave | Mar 22, 2009 | Tinker Blog
VirtualBox is a free virtual machine environment that runs on the major platforms. Competitors include Parallels, VirtualPC, and VMWare, all great products. The VirtualBox project was acquired by Sun a while back and it’s still free and better than ever. In Mac...
