Thu Tu’s Blog

I’m all about keyboard shortcuts. Particularly since my main computer at home is a laptop, the less I have to move the cursor, the better.
I installed Google Screensaver on my work laptop also. The thing was that the usual keyboard shortcut that I usually use to lock the screen, ctrl-alt-delete, did not immediately activate the [...]

Last night, my Nintendo Wii greeted me with its pretty blue light. I turned it on to see what awaited me. I honestly had no idea. I clicked on the Message icon and it showed that Nintendo had sent a message announcing the Final Wii Browser was available. Yipee!
I did the system update in preparation [...]

Eclipse does not come with support for handling Python. There are a few plugins that add python support to Eclipse. I decided upon PyDev because it seemed to meet my needs best.
First, download and install Eclipse. Actually, there’s not much of an installation. You just need to extract the huge zip file.
Use the Eclipse Update [...]

Here are some Greasemonkey scripts that greatly increase the functionality of Gmail: http://persistent.info/archives/2005/12/23/greasemonkey by making more keyboard shortcuts available.
My favorite is the Macro one. One of the things I like about Gmail is being able to use the keyboard for a lot of the navigation. One of my pet peeves with regular gmail was having [...]