Monthly Archives: May 2009

Dark PNGs in Safari

For whatever reason, sometimes the transparent parts of PNGs appear darker in Safari than in other browsers.  You can fix it by removing all the color correction metadata from the images with pngcrush: pngcrush -rem gAMA -rem cHRM -rem iCCP -rem sRGB InputFile.png OutputFile.png pngcrush is a command line tool that optimizes (read: makes smaller) [...]

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Ubuntu Features I Heart

I’m working mostly in Ubuntu now a days, and its been a joy since I discovered (read: desperately scoured the earth for) these fantastic applications that give me all the workflow magic I take for granted in OSX. GNOME Do A very fast and extensible launcher that does all the stuff I use Quicksilver for [...]

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VMware Fusion and Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope Upgrade Issues Resolved

I have been working in Ubuntu a lot lately and really loving it.  OSX may be prettier, but as far as workflow, nothing beats Ubuntu. I upgraded to the newest distro, 9.04 and had a few issues that I just got ironed out. Slow mouse problem After I finished the upgrade and installed 9.04, things [...]

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