Remember those snazzy badges I made some time ago? Well, after having been featured on OMG! Ubuntu! I felt like getting back on the proverbial horse and make some more badges. So I did. I’m not crazy about the font situation, but Arch’s official font seems to be Liberation Sans - so that’s what I’m going with.

As usual, there is one color and one monochrome flavors, both with low-opacity versions. Sticking them on your website is super easy. For more information on that, go check out the Made on Linux page.

If you want me to make badges like these for your favorite distribution, simply shoot me an email (my email is available on the contact page). There are some distributions that I can’t make badges for because of copyright reasons, but I promise I’ll do my best.

Don’t worry, I’m not going to bore you by trying to explain just what Google Wave is. If you know, you already know that it’s really not that revolutionizing. If you don’t yet know, just know that it’s amazing!

I kid, of course.

Nevertheless, I happen to have a quite substantial amount of invitations that nobody seems to want. If you want one, leave a comment. People whose comments include a link to a funny lolcat will get their invitations faster than those without one. So if you really want in, bring cats.

When I logged onto Twitter a couple of minutes ago, I was greeted by a banner saying:

New! Lists. A great way to organize the people you follow and discover new and interesting accounts. (BETA)

Lists are timelines you build yourself, consisting of friends, family, co-workers, sports teams, you name it. You’re part of a small group receiving this feature, so don’t tweet about it yet! (Author’s note: Sorry, but I couldn’t help myself.)

I feel so web2.0 that I think I’m going to have to hop on over to Google Wave and notify all my Facebook buddies about how great it is to be tweeting about Apple!

In a nutshell, lists are actually more like categories. What you do is you create a list and then add the people who’s tweets you want to appear in the list. So for example you could create one called “family” and then have all your family members’ tweets in there. If you mark it as public, anyone can subscribe to that list so that they too can see all those tweets.

So if you’re, for example, running a podcasting network, all the show hosts could add themselves to one list to make it easier for their listeners to follow them.

That said, the feature is still in beta - and it shows. As far as I can tell, there’s currently no way to delete lists. However, I think that once the feature is out of beta and online groups start to promote their lists, it could be pretty useful.

After a few months of hard work (mostly by Isaiah, as of lately), Caffeine for Linux has now reached adulthood with its 1.0 release! With this release, we finally feel like Caffeine is stable enough to be used on a day to day basis, and should fix most situations where the screensaver is being mischievous. It is our hope that this release will somehow make it into the official Ubuntu repositories, but of course maintainers of other distributions are more than welcome to include Caffeine in their repositories as well.

In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, Caffeine is a tiny little applet that sits in your system tray and uses magical caffeine to keep your computer from going asleep or activating the screensaver. This could be helpful when you’re giving presentations, playing full-screen games or when you’re watching flash videos.

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As an amateur programmer and web developer (I did say amateur) I’m always looking to find a good IDE that matches my workflow and that allows me to do what I want as quickly and with the least effort possible. Out of all the free IDEs I have tried in both Windows and Linux, none of them even come close to matching Geany’s pure awesomeness!

While it undoubtably has the worst looking icon ever, you can clearly see that the IDE is not overly complex or messy.

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