If you still remember, a while ago I wrote about my DIY: Duct tape Slimmy wallet. Looking back, I’m pretty impressed with how it turned out. But over the course of it last time, it sure did die out. Mostly because the lints from my pants began sticking to the duct tape. So after many patches and rips, I’ve decided to make another one. But as you can see, this time I’ve decided on going through the faux leather route instead of duct tape. It may not be as Geeky, but I’m sure it won’t have as much lint sticking to it.

Luckily, this time I remembered to take pictures along the way. Hopefully I can write up a short tutorial on it soon. I’ve made some design changes and anded to the basic slimmy, but overall it’s still the same concept. For now you can enjoy pictures at my flickr pool

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So a couple of days ago, I decided my computer was starting to lag too much and I should reinstall it. The original plan was to create a new partition (using my trusty sysresccd which has qtparted. A free hard drive partitioner that can resize ntfs.) on my hard drive to place all my files into and reformat the other partition. Then after reinstalling the OS I would place the file back, then join all the partition back. Sounds great right? On paper it did, but when I went ahead and executed it, a big giant head exploding problem happened. My computer crashed while partitioning. Naturally my first hope was to check if my files was still there, no dice. At that point a part of me died. (more…)

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It’s been a while since I got a new monitor, so I’ve been stuck with a 15 incher. Sure it’s adequate, but sometimes I wish it just had more screen real estate. Since a lot of what I do involves Firefox, I decided to optimize it to get more screen space. And Since I’m feeling daring, I’ve decided to use Firefox 3 beta 2 for the project because it’s more of a lean mean browser than the old one. So here we go.

What you need

So first lets start with getting Firefox 3 and a few programs. I started by getting Personal Menu so I can hide the menu bar, and access it from a small button. Then I got myself ChromeEdit plus to auto-hide buttons and the bookmark bar when not needed. Now that we have the tools, let’s get cracking. (more…)

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