Category Archives: Web
Advanced Kindle store search
I just found a great web site providing a better Kindle content search than what’s baked into Amazon: eReaderIQ.com. You can search by price, publication date, reading level, and whether the book you want is in the public domain, among … Continue reading
Importing Movable Type Markdown into WordPress
Once again I’ve up and moved my whole little site here to a new platform — WordPress 3, this time around, on top of Nginx + PHP-FPM + (obviously) MySQL on FreeBSD 8.1. I think I’m making a tradition of … Continue reading
Firefox 3.5 on Debian Lenny AMD64
Now that Firefox 3.5 is out, I wanted to get it running on my 64-bit Debian 5.0 laptop–but there’s no 3.5 package in Sid yet, as of July 2, and mozilla.com only carries 32-bit binary tarballs for Linux. So I … Continue reading
Chrome
This evening I had the chance to download Google’s newly-released (and by “released” I mean “beta”… hey, it’s Google) web browser, Chrome, and give it a try. They weren’t kidding when they said V8, the new JavaScript virtual machine in … Continue reading
Opera 9.50
I finally got around to trying the Linux version of Opera 9.50, the newest version of the Opera web browser. Here’s what I think of it after a couple weeks of using Opera 9.50 as my main web browser, particularly … Continue reading
UF Weather Report Widget Thingy
I’ve tired of manually pointing my browser at http://www.phys.ufl.edu/weather/ each time I want to check the conditions on campus, so I made a small widget to bring the campus weather report to my NetVibes home page: Fellow Gators can use … Continue reading