Martin Ankerl
No movement is faster than no movement

Clearlooks Compact Update

I have made a minor update to the Clearlooks Compact theme, the panel menu now uses small icons.
Clearlooks Compact is a Gnome theme that tries to make use of the wasted screen space as much as possible. It is especially useful for small screens like on the Eee PC, or with intense applications like Eclipse. [...]


Netvibes Search Widgets Updated

I have just updated the Netvibes (iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Windows Live) search widgets with some Javascript voodoo. See my previous post for more info about these widgets. You can try them inline here:

Even though there is not much about this search, I have done quite a bit of user interface tweaks to make them [...]


Netvibes Widgets for JDK and OSS Search

Netvibes has recently released a very cool update on their Widget API (see Ginger and UWA). It is now possible to create widgets that can be used in iGoogle, Apple Dashboard, Opera, Windows Live, Windows Vista, and of course Netvibes itself. I have just created two widgets for the two search engines Open Source Software [...]


Recovering from Hack

Hi fellow readers, two days ago I have noticed that my blog got hacked. Somebody has used php injection to add lots of links to dubious sites to my blog. This was invisible to the browsers but very much for search engines, and as a result I have been kicked out of the google index. [...]


Up, Up and Away!

This will be my last entry for some time. On 1st December I fly to South Africa and will have lots of fun traveling around, learning how to surf, and generally doing all kinds of stupid things for about 3 weeks. After that I will celebrate Christmas with my family and eat Christmas cookies until [...]