A few days ago the Linux Foundation announced the 5 finalists for its 2012 T-Shirt contest. I’m sponsoring my fiancèe’s work, titled “Freedom lifts us up”, which you can preview below. In her own words “The concept behind my design is quite simple: linux

To install this script just download the file , place it under your home ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts , make it executable and then kill nautilus. Below are copy&paste instructions to install from terminal cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts wget "http://www.andreaolivato.net/Share on Dro

Technical guide with sources aiming to teach how to setup a simple Perl script to update a Twitter account using Google Buzz posts and goo.gl url shortener

I do Love eselect! For those who don’t know eselect is a ‘modular administration and configuration framework’. In simpler words it is a management tool shipped with Gentoo, able to switch between packages versions and configurations files, working with symbolic links

When trying to access the original feed of a blog (or website) which makes use of Feedburner, your crawler ( or browser or script ) usually receives a 301 header, redirecting it to the Google version of the feed. This means that if you need to access the original source ( for faster a

Exactly in the same way we can incorporate Chrome ( or Chromium in my case ) with Google Bookmarks, it is possible to perform a double integration between the browser and Delicious. The bookmarklet section of this little how-to will show you how to share bookmarks with a single click

Yesterday Remember the Milk staff announced their official app for Android. If you want to see how it looks jump to gallery. Their app is available for pro users only, but if you want to try it before buying there’s 15 day trial period offered together with the download. Members

Gimp rocks. I find it very intuitive, simple to use and easy to learn. It has lots of features and is very expandible via scripts and brushes. Unfortunately I can’t see many designer using it out there. I bet customers usually wants a .psd, not a .xcf dammit. Anyway that introdu

This is a quick tip about obtaining a nice looking effect of shadow while scrolling. Using css and a partially transparent background png it is possible to simulate a shadow in the lowest part of your website/blog, giving the input to the user about scrolling the page to read the semi

Firebug has always been my favourite companion for developing frontends for web applications. Unfortunately latest version both of the extension and the browser disappointed me and I had to look for other solutions. In a Linux environment Opera was the most known non-free alternative