http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi dabbling, frivolling, idling, loafing, loitering, playing and procrastinating Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:15:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As announced on the official Google Blog, tomorrow will see the initial release of Google Chrome. This is Google's next step forward on the web. Instead of just creating what you interact with in their web applications, you will now end up using Google's own web browser to access them ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/09/01/google-goes-to-the-next-level-with-chrome/ I recently changed the background image for the Today screen on my XDA Orbit, however when you set an image to background it washes it out with a grey layer so that text is still readable. However, if you used a very light image to begin with, the standard white ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/08/20/how-to-change-a-pocketpcs-today-screens-font-colour/ After finally giving in I decided to work out how to get Firefox 2.0.0.11 and 3.0.1 running side by side. It turned out to be much easier than I thought, so I thought I'd share this with the world (although its probably posted on about 5million other blogs), either way... Download ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/08/19/running-firefox-2-and-3-side-by-side/ So yes, I recently got myself a new home server off of eBuyer, and I decided to install Ubuntu on it. After installing various other packages without issue the first to cause problems was Rails (it always would be wouldnt it). Either way, when you try to run... sudo gem update ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/08/18/ubuntu-hardy-heron-rails-gem-update-barf/ This video is shows off what Microsoft's Research team have been doing since they initially did work on an idea called Photo Tourism. This is where you take lots of photo's of a location and using those to generate a 3D area which the user can move the camera about ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/08/15/finding-paths-through-the-worlds-photos/ So, this morning I finally entertained Tortoise's incessant whining to update to its latest version (1.5.2) and I took the plunge. The one thing that annoys me the most about the upgrade process is the fact I have to restart the machine in order for the installation to finish, this I find ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/08/05/replacing-the-new-tortoisesvn-icons-with-the-old-ones/ If you're a programmer of some description and you use SVN and develop on Windows then chances are you'll either be using SVN with TortoiseSVN, or you'll be like one of those trendy kids using GIT. However, those cool kids don't yet have something like TortoiseGIT. But I'm sure that once it ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/08/05/how-to-optimize-tortoises-svn-cache/ For those who know me (hi people on facebook) you might know that over the past few weeks I have been slowly making a gallery in Rails for my personal photos. This started off the back end of being annoyed at Flickr's free account only allowing you to create 3 ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/08/01/ruby-on-rails-gallery-with-rmagick-and-jruby-issues/ If you've ever worked with Firebug you'll know its possibly the best tool out there for aiding in web development within Firefox; thankfully there are some really handy extensions for it to make it even more indispensable! Firecookie Allows the same controls that you get with HTML to apply to cookies, so ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/07/22/2-firebug-extensions-i-cant-work-without/ Well, I think I have decided against getting the new iPhone as a replacement for my trusty XDA Orbit. The reason why I was going to get one was so that I lost no functionality between my current phone and the new one, that included GPS functionality. I was very ... http://blogs.gerbilsofwar.com/limi/2008/06/27/iphone-3g-delusion-the-apple-has-gone-rotten/