Now that i am no longer a full time student and i work as a software engineer I don’t have the desire and commitment to work on projects on a regular basis. I do still enjoy stuffing around with technology, tweaking it to how i like it, as well as being able to share my thoughts and opinions on technology and how i use it.

I think that technology should be easy to use along with being esthetically pleasing and looking good in general. I have started writing a series of articles based along these ideas, ranging from how to set up Linux to be easy to use and look good, to articles voicing my opinion on various forms of technology and how i think it could be better.

Three features i have missed in enlightenment from previous systems i have used are the ability to cycle through wallpapers from a folder, a photo frame gadget for photos that don't work as well as a wallpaper and a good system monitor gadget. I have finally found a way to do all these using external programs so I thought i'd share them with you. I'll start off with setting up each program then go through how to lauch any program on startup and turn any program into a desktop gadget.... More...

Fortunately e19 landed just in time to get into openSUSE 13.2 ...

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Hi all, the major versions we will be shipping for openSUSE have now landed in the X11:Enlightenment:Factory repo, and will probably move to openSUSE:Factory in the next couple of weeks. As such the X11:Enlightenment:Nightly repo won’t see much attention until after the 13.2 release, I will probably still run the script around once a week [&hellipMore...

Generally i use several terminals at the same time, generally one per project or task, i've always been annoyed that i either loose history or it becomes hard to find so i created hiset (history set) pronounced hi-set. It allows you to easily assign a history per shell sessions and then manage the multiple history files . More...

Enlightenment e18 (18.2) and Terminology 0.4.0 are now available on openSUSE. Those who pay attention will have noticed it there for a couple of weeks, but now the openSUSE theme and profile should be working and i don't think i will be breaking anything again anytime soon... More...