General category archive

Safari 3.1 and Pith Helmet

March 19th, 2008 | General, How To, OS X | 5 comments

Recently Apple updated their browser Safari to version 3.1. It does boast new features that us web developers love, but it also crashes some hacks we also love. Note that I’m not calling them “plug-ins”. Read the reasoning behind this.
Now, one of my favorite Safari hacks has been Pith Helmet and with the new update, [...]

Facebook News Feed Filter

March 13th, 2008 | General | No comments

While stumbling around on Facebook, it seems like they accidently released (or to me for a second) a new front page. The front page we usually see is the News Feed. The new page is the same News Feed, but filtered.
I took the liberty to take some pictures.

What do you think?

Futurama: Bender’s Big Score - Binary Joke

January 15th, 2008 | General | 4 comments

In Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, Bender reads off a series of 0’s and 1’s to travel through time. Now I won’t go much into the movie1, but the writers are known for their geek humor.

Now, if you take the whole thing by itself, it’s not a 16-bit code, but 32-bit. I believe IBM made [...]

How to change bash prompt

January 3rd, 2008 | General | No comments

Some people have asked me how I changed my bash/terminal prompt from the default prompt to what I have. It’s actually a very simple process.

First, load up Terminal and open up your ~/.bash_profile file. (FYI, be sure to read the difference between .bash_profile and .bashrc.)

Then type the following:

export PS1="\w>: "
export PS2=" > "

There are a [...]

RSS Links Updated

December 3rd, 2007 | General | No comments

I have updated my RSS Feed locations. Please update your reader to this location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/karbassi/tech
The RSS for the comments are located at http://feeds.feedburner.com/karbassi/tech/comments

Programming Child Names or “What not to name your children”

October 8th, 2007 | General | 3 comments

Am I being too much of a geek to even consider this? I always thought it would be super cute (and nerdy) to name your child after something you love. Okay, maybe not for all loves, but it works for some loves. People name their children after their parents, grandparents, celebrities, and even pets; so [...]

Convert any (or most) files to another format

January 20th, 2007 | General, How To, Resource | 2 comments

So, I was stuck with an OpenOffice text document (.odt) and the place were I was at didn’t have OpenOffice. They were using a Microsoft Office version (2000/XP I believe). What was I to do? A presentation due and I had no way of accessing my files.
Media Convert to the rescue. Yes, I know I [...]