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Get Railsified – new Rails plugin directory

Martin Wood — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:35:50 +0000

Searching for Rails plugins just got easier – Railsify provides a nice, fresh interface for sharing and locating the hottest Rails plugins.

ERH : Why should Linux be any different?

Martin Wood — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 20:28:54 +0000

Elliotte Rusty Harold questions Linux as any normal consumer would – why can’t it use the same driver software as Windows?

Link : Mokka mit Schlag » A Stupid Idea for New Year’s Eve

I was asking myself the same question a few weeks back installing Ubuntu on a Sony Vaio laptop which has a native 1400×1050 resolution which it miserably failed to detect.

Only after a few hours of tinkering (i.e. Googling) did I manage to get it to work, but then there was the lack of sound, hibernate/sleep facilities, etc. and I was quickly back in Windows on that machine – and the comfort of OS X elsewhere.

(Those cheap Intel PowerBooks can’t come quickly enough.)

Foxmarks – Synchronise Firefox bookmarks

Martin Wood — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:06:35 +0000

A novel solution to sychronising bookmarks across multiple machines :

Foxmarks – Foxcloud Wiki

Still awaiting the service that will allow me to synchronise across multiple machines with different browsers (e.g. convert as necessary for Safari, FireFox, Opera, etc.).