Tips

If you are using XFCE, you probably have the issue of the desktop icons text or labels being hard to read. This can easily be fixed by modifying the xfce gtkrc files. I only tested this on Linux Mint 15 XFCE, but it should work in all xfce environments.

Our New File

We have to create a new style file for XFCE. This is easily done by creating a normal text file (use Gedit, vim, or any editor). This file then has to be included into the current theme, which is easy.

With all the various ways you can have your visitors, community or fans share your content with their friends, you have a lot of options to pick from. You can either set up all the javascript for each button, which will end up having to load a lot of extra resources on each page. You can use a service like ShareThis which creates a bar that has various sharing methods that you can customize, but still not have full control of the buttons. Or the best method, create your own setup which you can pick the images, layout, and not have to load any external resources.

If you don’t know what TweetDeck is, then you probably don’t need it. Though, for the slim possibility that you do need it and don’t know about it, TweetDeck is a Twitter Manager… in short. You can tweet from multiple accounts, keep track of searches and messages, have lists for each account, and more. It’s all of Twitter in a single screen with support for multiple accounts. TweetDeck is both available online as a website and as a desktop application for OSX and Windows operating systems. They also have a Chrome App, which is basicly just their online version.

With the not so new YouTube Layout now, you may need to grab a banner on someones page for one reason or another. This took me a little bit of time to figure out and I didn’t see it posted anywhere else, so what better place to post it than here. So far, I have found 4 different sizes that seem to cover all of the available screen types. Desktop, Mobile, Tablet and TV. If you want to see the full cover image with the highest resolution, look at the TV images.

When you watch a video online, either it being YouTube, Vimeo, HTML5 or even an advertisement, the video is saved to your computer. When HTTP is sending you a video to watch, a segment or part of the video is sent. Multiple of these requests are being handled at the same time. When a segment is ready it starts playing the video while still receiving more video segments. With this method, you can watch you video while still receiving future video parts, thus minimizing the buffering time.