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How to install Adblock Plus in Prism 0.9

(Mac OS X Tiger users only) You have battled with your Prism app just to visit the Firefox Addons page to install Adblock Plus. You click the install link: the addon file downloads, but after that, you get a message saying,
Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Prism 0.9.
The [...]

WPlite 1.3 released

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NEW: By popular demand, an “Administrators see everything” option

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Feeling Quranical

What is Quranical? Actually, it’s just the short form of “Quran on iCal“.

Time Machine-style backups for FREE

Everyone must have been impressed when Apple launched Mac OS X Leopard, which features Time Machine, an automated backup system. The catch is, you’ll have to have an external drive to use Time Machine, and there are also people (like me) who can’t afford to get Leopard (yet).
Luckily, there’s Mozy.
Mozy offers free, secure, automated backups [...]

Announcing WPlite 1.2

Cleaner, faster, better.

New features:

Support for Wordpress 2.5.
Everything still works fine in the latest, finest version of Wordpress.
Disable by Feature.
Save some clicks by quickly disabling menu and meta items by feature.
WPlite options page bookmarklet.
Hide WPlite itself, but never ever lose it.
Available on Wordpress.com Wordpress.org. (thanks, Ryan!)
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Microsoft Word sucks

As if that’s new.
To say the least, I am pissed off by the fact that Microsoft Word 2003 cannot automatically generate bibliographies; even the open-source Neo/OpenOffice is capable of this task. This is, I find, a great impediment to the writing of my project report. I really wonder how people have been putting up with [...]

Source for patched Last Exit 5

At the request of zebob, here it is:
last-exit-5-savepatch.zip (976kB)
Contains the original patch file for version 4, which I referred to in patching version 5.
Related:

Patched Last Exit 5 for Ubuntu Feisty
Patched Last Exit 5 for Ubuntu Gutsy

Last Exit 5 patched for Ubuntu Gutsy

UPDATE: Patched source now available.
I have compiled the patched version of Last-Exit 5 under Ubuntu Gutsy and created a Ubuntu/Debian package for it. The patched version allows you to save the currently playing song to an ext3 partition.
If this is your first time trying the patched version of Last Exit, please read the notes from [...]

Safari: the only REAL browser on earth

(Warning: Prose inspired by extreme software idolatry follows. Alternative title: “Apple: the only REAL typeface renderer on earth”.)

Ever since I tried the Safari beta for Windows, I never looked back. Why has the world been missing this for so long? Once one gets acquainted with Apple’s smooth typeface rendering, it becomes very intriguing why many [...]

Shhh, secret delivery.

UPDATE: Patched source now available.
UPDATE: An Ubuntu Gutsy version is now available.

Oh. My. God.
If my senses serve me well, I have just successfully compiled Last Exit version 5 with the ’save patch’. Even got it nicely wrapped in a .deb (Ubuntu/Debian) package. If my senses serve me well.
Things to take note:

I didn’t create Last Exit. [...]