Multiple desktops... on a laptop! (kind of)

Posted by pseudonull / at 6:41 PM / / 0 comments

Multiple desktops are amazing, and they add to your geek rep. But on your laptop, you can't really have multiple screens (unless, of course, you've got a dual-screen Thinkpad W700). But fear not! You can get (close to) the same great functionality of two (or more!) monitors with only one.

How, you ask?

Well, it's quite simple! Just grab yourself some virtual desktops software! Those of you who have used some major Linux distros will have known about this already (and those of you who have used Spaces on your Mac), but you might have never really taken advantage of the clutter-reducing and productivity-boosting powers of virtual desktops, or you might be one of those many Windows users who is left in the dark about this breed of software.

Virtual desktops are one of the "I can never believe I survived without it" kinds of things. They let you work easily with many open windows at one time. With simply the press of a key, you can have a whole different set of open windows in front of you. If you're like me, you'll want each of your virtual desktops to have a specific purpose, like web browsing on the first desktop, work on the second desktop, etc.

Anyway, enough talk. Here's how to get virtual desktops set up on your computer:

• Windows: VirtuaWin is a great piece of software. Completely free.
• Mac: You can find out how to set up Spaces here.
• Linux: It's specific to what desktop enfironment you use. You can figure it out. After all, you are geeky enough to be using linux, right? Hah.

~pn

iPhone/Android/WinMo SMS hack

Posted by pseudonull / at 4:58 PM / / 0 comments

Today, at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, an SMS vulnerability was revealed that works on multiple platforms that could allow a hacker access to your phone. The exploit was first publicly revealed when the researchers showed a CNET employee the exploit, hacking into his phone. Read the article here.

You can get all the ooey-gooey technical details here.

~pn

Last.fm has some problems.

Posted by pseudonull / at 7:04 PM / / 0 comments

I despise last.fm, yet for some reason I'm always brought back to using it. I have the last.fm app on my G1 (android is amazing), and I had some frustrations with it today. Today, whilst painting the house, I wanted to get some music going. So! I just open up the last.fm app, type in a favourite band of mine, and get it going. I wanted to hear some of their songs. Not their similar artists. Yes, I know, when you play last.fm radio, it plays artists similar to the one you punch in. But I went through at very least 70 songs, and none of them were of the band I told it to play. It would have been nice to have at least one of their song play, but nooo.
Also, I can't get their online radio player to work in firefox. Apparently it has some issues.


But anyway. I ramble. Last.fm is actually a pretty nice streaming service, considering it's free.

I still love using my good ol' CD's though.
~pn

Hello All

Posted by pseudonull / at 5:45 PM / / 0 comments

I'm going to start blogging. Ultimately, this blog most likely won't have many viewers. Then again, it might. I'll blog anyway. It can't hurt. I'll throw out my ideas, let the world know I'm here, and who I am. So. An obvious question would be "What are you even going to blog about?" What, you ask? Well, whatever I feel like. Anything and everything. I go through different phases where I'm in to different things right now I'm back into web development. So you'll probably see a lot of boring geeky website things right now.

Anyway, I need to blog about something of substance now. Enough of this introductory post.

~pn