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I've updated my real_to_mp3.sh script to fix a small problem with the mplayer command line, the syntax seems to have changed recently.

See here for the original blog entry on how to install/use it.

Much as I like my Razr, I keep inadvertantly knocking the outside buttons when I handle it, causing the ring style to change to something I didn't want. This can be most annoying. However, there is a fix - http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=747103&highlight=lock+applications opening up a whole menu system I didn't even know existed. Despite a number of negative reviews I'm liking this phone more and more. I just wish the interface was a little faster.

x2vnc is a very neat little tool that gives you dual screen between two computers running different operating systems. So for instance I have a Gentoo machine as my main box at work, with the obligatory Windows machine next to it with it's own monitor. Running x2vnc on my Gentoo box I can just move the mouse cursor to the edge of the screen and hey presto it apears on the windows desktop. And the best thing is that the clipboard works between the two machines, so no more pasting stuff into temporary text files etc. Very nice. Give it a go, it's a bit spooky at first :)

Make Firefox give you a page of HTML instead of that annoying dialog box when you type an invalid URL - in about:config, change this :

browser.xul.error_pages.enabled = true

Nice.

I don't understand why this option isn't made the default for Firefox. There's nothing I hate more than links which insist on opening new windows. Bloody arogant if you ask me. Actually the feature should never have been allowed in the first place. It's my decision to open a new window or tab, not the site designer's. Rant, rant.