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Nice UI for Netbeans

June 12, 2011

As Netbeans under Linux (Ubuntu) is ugly as hell, I’ve searched for solutions. This post gives some directions: http://javahowto.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-customize-netbeans-look-and-feel.html & here. The best option in my opinion is to start Netbeans with this command: netbeans –laf com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel Next thing is to get an acceptable docky icon for the IDE… //edit 160611: Found a solution on [...]

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Customize Firefox Tabs

March 3, 2011

Uh yeah! If you want to change the colors and stuff in your Firefox browser search for a file called “userchrome.css”. The file should be in the “chrome” directory in your Firefox profile directory. On Ubuntu it’s in “home/[user]/.mozilla/firefox/[...]/chrome”

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Facebook Share: Custom title & description

January 13, 2011

Thanx to Drew on Stackoverflow I now know how to do this. Take a look: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2950189/facebook-share-doesnt-show-my-description-or-my-thumbnail

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Manipulate SWFs via JS

July 20, 2009

After some searching I finally found a link to a site with the SWF-JS attributes on the swfobject-page. HTH -> Flash JS Attributes

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Create multipage PDF under Linux in one line

July 17, 2009

This will be the start of my “Things I’m to lazy to remember” series. As a freelance guy on a Linux-Box sooner or later you will have the need to create multipage PDFs (in my case invoices scanned by xsane). So, how? No prob. On my distri (Ubuntu) it’s fairly simple: gs -q -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE [...]

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