Alain M. Lafon

To me, fullscreen does magic in terms of gained productivity – there’s no distraction anywhere; I can perfectly focus on the work ahead. MacVim has a nice fullscreen feature(CMD+SHIFT+F). I don’t want to miss it in my Linux environments, though.

In GVIM, there is a little manual labour involved, because in Linux, the window manager is responsible for, well.. managing windows – GVIM itself can’t implement “fullscreen”.

To achieve true fullscreen capabilities in GVIM and Linux, there are two steps involved:

• Make a shortcut in your window manager for fullscreen
• Get rid of GVIMs’ menu and toolbar

I’ll demo #1 for KDE:

Get rid of the menu:

And the toolbar:

Of course, you could edit your vimrc and set those flags globally.

Now, enjoy your editing with SHIFT+ALT+F.

The Airport Express is a great device when used in combination with iTunes – I thought. I could sit on my couch on my MBA, do some coding work while listening to my streamed Library (Mac Mini) not through internal speakers, but through my Harman-Kardon Hifi system.

Well, this setup has its flaws. What if I wanted to listen to Grooveshark for example? I would be stuck with the internal speakers. But no longer so, Airfoil comes to the rescue. This application can hook into system audio and redirect everything to Airport Express. There is added benefit for the old setup, too. Using the volume toggles on the keyboard will have impact on iTunes, now.

Setting this up is dead simple – like four clicks. You’ll figure it out.

News about flattr.com has had its impact recently – for example there were top rated submissions on Hackernews here, here and here.

It seems like a great idea to generate modest revenue for content creators of all kind. So I gave it a try. My blog is usually not very high traffic, but there is a steady stream of 6-7k visitors to my old articles. Those articles generate a time on page between 6-10 minutes each. I like to think that people stay and enjoy the read. So I made myself an account and installed the official flattr plugin for WordPress.

10’000 unique visitors to my blog later, I received no single flattr.

By no means does my experiment imply any significant validity for the general public, but I see no reason to keep the advertising buttons on my blog, either.