Today I recommend that you try out Shopping Cart Hero.
The last Flash game that I posted about was all about logic. This one is all about silly, pointless fun.
Try your best to maximize the distance, height, and style points as you ramp your cart into the air. Upgrade your cart to improve it’s ability to roll, attach rocket boosters, add groupies, and unlock tricks to build up the greatest amount of points possible.
Can you get a cart full of groupies in space?
I have a quick Ubuntu tip for you today. You’re on the command line and have an image in the directory that you’re currently in. How can you easily view this image without loading Nautilus, browsing to the directory, and opening it from there? It turns out that the answer is very simple.
The default image viewer in Ubuntu is called Eye of Gnome. Using Eye of Gnome, you can quickly view the following images: ani, bmp, gif, ico, jpeg, pcx, png, pnm, ras, svg, tga, tiff, wbmp, xbm, and xpm.
To run Eye of Gnome from the command line, simply run “eog”. So, if you have a file called image.jpg in your current directory, you can simply run the following to view it:
Now you never again have to wonder what that image is as you’re browsing around in Terminal.
This tip will work for any distro running Gnome, such as Linux Mint.
As I’ve blogged about before, the latest kernel and sound drivers made proper use of my headphone jacks on my Dell Studio 17 laptop while running Ubuntu 8.10, Intrepid Ibex.
Unfortunately, something has changed. As of this morning, only my center headphone jack functions properly. I’ve played around with many settings in the Volume Control, but I have yet to be able to re-enable the front headphone jack.
This post is just a quick notice to let any fellow Studio 17 + Ubuntu users know that I too am experiencing the problem. As soon as I find a solution, I’ll post it.
I just noticed that the problem has gone away. I hadn’t checked my jacks for the past few days, so I’m not sure when the problem went away.
FYI: I had a typo in my post where I put “rear headphone jack” rather than “front headphone jack”. I fixed the error.
I wanted to play around with POV-Ray, a program capable of creating ray traced images. Basically, this program can create some amazing photo-realistic scenes. Check out their Hall of Fame to get an idea of what some people have done with the tool.
I first checked out POV-Ray years ago and tested it out on an ancient 386. I just happened to remember it, and wanted to try it out again to have some fun.
As with many software packages out there today, a 64-bit binary version is not available. So, here are some instructions on how to compile it for yourself quickly and easily.
I’m not exactly a racing fan, but I have enjoyed watching races now and again. Out of all the motorsports, I find Formula Racing the most interesting. Thus, I was very interested when I saw this video.
New rules are going into effect for Formula 1 starting this year with changes that will continue through 2011. Red Bull Racing put together this video to highlight the changes that they are making to their vehicles to comply with these new regulations.
Even if you aren’t a racing fan, I suggest that you watch the video. The special effects are incredible.
Sorry about the late post everyone. I had a long week and went to bed before making sure a post was queued. Hopefully you’ll forgive me. 
I’m working on a project where I needed to generate a MIME type given a file name. Not only did I need to create a solution that worked, I also needed the solution to be compatible with PHP 4/5 and not require any additional software to be installed on the host. I thought this would be a simple matter of finding a PHP function that does this. Unfortunately, things were not as simple as this.
I’m used to my back and forward buttons on my mice being able to move backwards and forwards through file browsers. However, this function doesn’t work in Nautilus for Gnome, which is the default file browser for Ubuntu. Naturally, I started to dig into the problem.
I found out that I’m not the only one who is irritated by the lack of back/forward navigation via the mouse. On the Ubuntu Brainstorm site where people share ideas on how to improve Ubuntu, there is an idea topic and three duplicate topics all talking about adding this feature.
I have also discovered that there is a way to add this functionality. It isn’t pretty, but it does work.
An iso image is an uncompressed archive file that contains an ISO 9660 or UDF file system. These file systems define the format of data as it is recorded onto media such as CDs and DVDs.
So what are iso files good for? Here are a few ways that iso files can be used:
Since I have officially been using Ubuntu on my office laptop for more than a solid month without once booting into Windows, it’s time to mothball the Windows partition in order to give Linux more room to breathe.
I seriously considered removing Windows entirely as I don’t believe that I’ll have any legitimate need for it in the future. However, I think that I can get the Windows partition down to a manageable size and then forget about it.
I’m using Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit, Intrepid Ibex, but these instructions should work for users of other distros (such as Linux Mint, Fedora, Sabayon, etc) as well.
This morning I needed to pull some images off of my camera’s SD card using my Dell Studio 17′s built-in card reader. I plugged the card in, got sidetracked for a few minutes, and then realized that I couldn’t find a mount point for my card.
Usually when I plug in the card, it is automatically identified and mounted. Then Nautilus would show a listing in the left-hand pane for the card allowing me easy access to the contents. However, that didn’t happen today.
I thought about rebooting in order to see if it was just a fluke, but I didn’t want to save all my projects, close out all my applications, reboot, and load everything back up. So, I thought I’d see about mounting the device manually. Fortunately, it wasn’t difficult at all.