The Ubuntu distro package contains an excellent photo viewer application – since the Maverick release this application is Shotwell, replacing the earlier F-Spot. Shotwell is a great application – but I came across a rare and extremely annoying problem – under certain circumstances, involving removable media, the application would lose the “events” to which your [...]
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Shotwell – a script to fix broken events
January 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment
Alacarte problems in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
November 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Just a quick note – if you have problems accessing the “Main Menu” item from you “System” menu in Ubuntu Karmic, you may want to try the following.
Category: Jacques van Niekerk · Technical
Installing feedalizr on Ubuntu
September 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Cutline – folding sidebar menu
August 16th, 2008 · No Comments
This is a quick guide to implementing folding menu items in the sidebars of a Cutline theme. If you look to the sidebars at the right hand side of this page, you will note that the items “Categories”, “Archives” and “Admin” have “+” signs next to them. If you click on either the title or [...]
WordPress static page templates
June 19th, 2008 · No Comments
A quick heads-up on wordpress “static” Pages – it is not entirely clear from the documentation how one is supposed to structure the template in order to get content to display properly when a page is created based on the template – the problem is what template tag to use to display the user edited [...]
Category: Technical
Notes on upgrading
June 16th, 2008 · No Comments
I very recently (3 hours!) ago upgraded both my WordPress and Gallery installations on a Godaddy hosted account. Amazingly – it went well, with hardly any hiccups. Here are a few random things to bear in mind – some are really silly, but they may save someone a bit of time. First thing – and [...]
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