Why All Browsers Should Move to WebKit
As a web developer, I know the pains of trying to work around kinks to support all variations of all major browsers to have a unified look, feel, and performance. Even though today the top browsers do a better job at supporting and implementing new web-standards it’s far from a perfect situation. So when I […]
In 2013 “Year of Linux Desktop” Will Stop Being a Cliché
You have probably read it a thousand times how year X will the year of the Linux desktop, only to know deep down that this will be repeated next year by some tech blog/pundit with some news on how awesome Linux is doing in the desktop market because of some obscure government program of buying […]
How To Make Your Browser Use Less Memory
Modern browsers are ruthlessly fast, feature-rich, extendable, and memory hungry. There was a time when Firefox’s huge collection of browser extensions was its major selling point but soon it turned out to be the bane of its existence. Firefox not only poorly handled memory-hungry extensions (including annoying restarts after extension install and upgrades) but FF […]
10 Must Have Sublime Text Packages and Themes
Since its initial release Sublime Text has quickly become the text editor of choice for many coders. I only recently started using ST and I am already in love with it, so much so that I exclusively use ST for all my text editing tasks not only coding. Apart from speed issues, which I have […]
How to get Google Apps For Free
Google recently discontinued the free basic Google Apps for Business offer. Existing customer can keep their accounts but new users are, at least officially, not allowed to have a free account. However, you can continue to use the existing account you already have. Not sure if it’s intentional or an oversight, but they’re still exists […]
Using Crafty Chess Engine to Benchmark Your Hardware
There was a time when I was really involved with the computer chess community. I used to organize off-line and online computer chess tournaments. Try all the new free or commercial chess engines out there. I was so involved with the community that commercial chess engine authors from ChessBase (one of the largest, if not […]