Archive for October, 2009

Once You Go Black, You Never Go Back

Here’s a  great color scheme for Visual Studio text editor. The color plate is made up of Tango’s Desktop Project. Its white on dark gray, it has a nice contrast, it looks great and its best for your eyes. Stop using white backgrounds to prevent eye strain!

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Setup Gmail As Your Default Ubuntu Mail Client

Annoyed by Evolution Mail popping up every time you hit an email address on Ubuntu? Or when you select Email a contact on Docky? A simple script can spare you the annoyance, and make your life easier. The steps are below: Create a simple script Crate a script named: open_mailto.sh , then edit the scipt [...]

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Supersize That Please! [Device Desktop Icons]

Here is a cool trick for your desktop, for those of you use the Gnome desktop anyway. I discovered lately that gnome allows reassigning the icons of folders/files, with one click of a mouse. Instead, you may select any picture file of your choice (as apposed to Windows that forces you to choose an *.ico [...]

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