It looks like Chrome is hiding something from us — in its about:memory report — fairly counting memory usage of Firefox (marked orange), it shows us only the part of truth (marked green). What are these «hidden» processes, that Chromium shy of (marked red)? Looks like that «hidden» instances eat much more memory, that Chrome shows.

During taking the screenshot, there was only one Chrome window running, as well as one window of Firefox. It is Ubuntu 9.10, Chromium 5.0.343.0.

Some time ago I discovered, that some wallpapers on the web are mostly the same, but slightly differs — for example snowy or green landscape, sunshine or nightly. I don’t know how with other OS, but Ubuntu Linux (from 9.04) can automatically (and smoothly) change wallpaper in selected time, and these format is open (heh, that’s Open Source, dude!). Also, there are lots of Geocoding web-services to get sunset and sunrise time at your location. So why don’t use it and create such geo-cozy mashup for our desktop?

Let’s use great wallpapers from Yoritsuki and Vacation 2008: Into the Sky from HybridWorks.JP.

See, download, install and give your feedback.

Unfortunately, the might and powerful his magesty Google Chrome or Chromium is unable to download and display custom fonts. BTW, its closest relative, Apple Safari, which is also based on WebKit, able to display fonts from third version.

Fortunately, this is just an option by default. You just have to say it your desire to see downloadable fonts, via command line.

In Linux:

chromium-browser --enable-plugins --enable-remote-fonts %U

In MacOS:

/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-remote-fonts

In Windows that looks like this.

And than look at reference: http://www.css3.info/preview/web-fonts-with-font-face/ or (that’s excellent!) http://nicewebtype.com/fonts/graublau-sans-web. More about web-fonts at webfonts.info.

P.S. So, now I wonder if there is a command-line option, that will force Chrome to draw round-corners fine (I mean with anti-aliasing).

Via Paul Irish

That’s for those, who are strictly tied to console. http://goosh.org. Looks like real shell, but searches. Really.

It’s simple — working on Google AJAX API, in browser. I suppose soon we could see true #/bin/goosh console for GNU )) Perfect thing, nothing to say.

Via Atoma pieraksti.

This howto is about making QT4 fonts look like default GTK fonts in Gnome. This example about Ubuntu GNU/Linux, but should work on all Gnome systems. Saying simple, some applications (like Skype, Last.fm and others) looks a bit different (mmm… say ugly) under Gnome. That usually happens because these apps are using QT, and QT doesn’t know about your Gnome font settings — both engines store their own settings, and “hinting” (method, that makes fonts look great) method is different. But, fixing is simple.

Go to your home folder (/home/yourname/), and make file .fonts.conf (be carefult, it is dot in the beginning). If you’re using console it should look like following:

cd ~/
touch .fonts.conf

This goes to your home folder and creates desired file. Next, open this file with gedit or nano or vi or any editor you like:

nano ~/.fonts.conf

And put there next text:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
</match>
<match target="font">
<edit name="rgba" mode="assign">
<const>rgb</const>
</edit>
<edit name="hinting" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign">
<const>hintfull</const>
</edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>

… and restart your Last.fm or Skype or whatever you like! Should be great. See the screenshots — first showin my default Skype installation, and second — after apllying .fonts.conf.

Via Ubuntu Forums.