Archive for the ‘Awesome’ Category

Good Customer Service

If Time Warner Cable did this every time I was unable to use their On-Demand service I wouldn’t have a cable bill.

Reddit Hover Craft: My Google Chrome Extension

I wrote my first Google Chrome Extension, Reddit Hover Craft.  This extension will popupimages posted to Reddit.com in a jQuery pop window.  This allows for a smoother Reddit browsing experience because you dont have to navigate away from Reddit to view all the pictures posted to imgur.com.

Google Analytic Statistics for One Year.

On August 25, 2009 I signed up and configure Google Analytics for this blog. At that time I only written a couple of pages but I was just curious who was coming to this site, from where, and what pages they though were interesting. On day one I got a whopping 2 visits and by the end of the first week I had received a total of 30 visits and 50 page views. Still, I was happy.

Now, a year and many articles later, I am averaging about 80 visitors with an average of 110 pageviews a day. I am now very happy! I get more visitors per day than the company that I work for does. However, I won’t be quiting that job any time soon to become a full time blogger. I don’t make much money off the site, and I don’t do it to make lots of money. I installed Google Adsense about 7 months ago and I have only made $15.00. I figure since most of my readers are geeks, like me, they have ad-block installed. I, like them, hate ads but I figured if everyone else on the internet serves ads, I will too.

Here are the important stats for Motersho.com for the past year (Aug 25 2009 – Aug 25 2010).

Site Overview:

Top Content:
Fix Minimize/Maximize/Close Button Order in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (5,386)
Demotivational Poster: It’s A Mac (2,984)
How to: Install Evolution 2.30 on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx (2,925)
How to: Configure Mediatomb/DLNA on Fedora 12 to work with a Samsung TV (1,820)
Autoit Command Line Parameters. A new approach (1,081)
HOWTO: Send SMTP commands via a bash script and the /dev/tcp device file (595)

Top Referrers:

Visitor Information (Top 10):


Map Overview: (The darker the green = the more visits)
I like this pictures because it shows that I have touched almost every country in the world!

I am excited to see what next year will bring!!

Ubuntu Hits Primetime TV

Ubuntu Linux makes it prime time TV debut on the popular TV show The Big Bang Theory. Sure its a show about geeks but hey, its a start.

How to Skip Past Previews on DVDs

We all hate having to sit through those annyoying 15 minutes of previews on DVD movies, its even worse when you have to make a little kid wait.  Here is a way to skip past all of those previews and go directly to the movie even when you the DVD maker has blocked the fast forward or skip button.  Get you pop corn becuase it’s movie time.

Step 1:
Put the DVD in your DVD player and press play

Step 2:
Once the previews start hit Stop twice on your remote and then hit play.

You should now be at the start of the movie.  This trick should work on most DVD players but your mileage may vary.  Enjoy

What people are really using the iPad for.