by Jason L Froebe on January 27, 2013, no comments
Most people that want to speed up Firefox know about the various settings in about:config but many forget that Firefox uses SQLite databases that can become cluttered. In your home directory ($HOME on *nix/Mac and %APPDIR% on Windows), run sqlite3 with vacuum, reindex and analyze on eche of the *.sqlite databases. Don’t have sqlite3? No [...]
by Jason L Froebe on November 22, 2010, 2 comments
Run multiple versions of Perl from your home directory using Perlbrew! One thing to know: Perl won’t compile if you have an encrypted home directory. Bug has been fixed but not exactly how and it hasn’t been put into the Ubuntu updates yet. Thanks goes to Kang-min Liu for creating Perlbrew!!!! The recommended way to [...]
by Jason L Froebe on January 19, 2010, no comments
When I purchased Foundations of Qt Development (Expert’s Voice in Open Source) by Johan Thelin a few months back, I hoped to get to it right away but work and life diverted my attention. Today at lunch I dived into it. Even though I’m still going through chapter 1, I think I can give a [...]
by Jason L Froebe on December 24, 2009, 20 comments
I’ve been wracking my brains over this for the past few weeks and it finally struck me how to create an m4b audiobook with chapters that is compatible with your iPod, iTunes, VLC, etc. It was very simple once I figured it out: Step 1: encode the mp3 files to “aac” (mpeg4) using your favorite [...]
by Jason L Froebe on July 6, 2009, 8 comments
In iTunes 8, Apple has mentioned in their “What’s New in iTunes 8” that it is possible to upgrade your iTunes music to non-DRM’d for a small fee. Great! I purchased quite a bit of music from the iTunes store when I ran WinXP as my primary desktop. Now I can legally convert them to [...]