Friday, December 03, 2004

MSN Spaces Blogging Beta Goes Live. As expected, MSN launched an official beta of its MSN Spaces blogging service late Wednesday night. MSN also released a refreshed public beta of its MSN Messenger 7.0 instant-messaging service, as well as an update to Hotmail. [Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley] 9:29:42 AM    comment []  trackback []

wmctrl -- Shade, move, resize windows from a shell. From the "why didn't I know about this before now?" file: this evening I discovered the wmctrl tool. With this you can access all of the Extended Window Manager Hints functions of your windows from the command line. What does this mean? Imagine hitting a key sequence and a specific window moves, and resizes to a certain section of your desktop. Hit another button and it shades, no matter what window has focus. I'll get into how to unlock all of this potential below. [O'Reilly Weblogs] 9:22:24 AM    comment []  trackback []

Report: IBM's PC business up for sale. IBM has put its PC business up for sale, according to a story published on Friday on Web site of The New York Times. [InfoWorld: Top News] 9:17:04 AM    comment []  trackback []