about 2 weeks ago - No comments
Beijing’s total population has exceeded 22 million, a mark that is supposed to be surpassed a decade later, the China National Radio reported today.
-Article from China Daily
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about 1 month ago - 1 comment
This is how Google Voice transcribes a message. This voicemail was left in Chinese by my Auntie Linda, who was inviting me to dinner. Here’s the original:
Hey Jen, If I’m doing, Dante at 10 More >
about 1 month ago - No comments
My coworker Kurt was asking about this so I’ll post it up here:
If you have Firefox and GreaseMonkey, then install this script. Go to your Facebook Phonebook, then in your Firefox menu, go into Tools > GreaseMonkey > User Script Commands… > and you’ll see Export Facebook Phonebook. Extract the data, More >
about 1 month ago - 2 comments
Yay, another one from Norwegian Recycling called Viva La Viral.
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about 1 month ago - No comments
Dennis Stock, Photographer of Intimate Portraits, Dies at 81.
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about 1 month ago - 3 comments
Youtube video from mobius32 explains, “This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the ‘Amen Break,’ a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hip hop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music More >
about 2 months ago - 1 comment
Google has now added a single button that merges all your duplicate contacts at once. To clean up your contact list in one fell swoop, just click the “Find duplicates” button in the contact manager, review the merge suggestions (and uncheck any suggestions you don’t want merged), and hit the “Merge” button.
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about 2 months ago - 2 comments
For Improv Everywhere’s latest mission, a 13-member hand bell choir provided some unexpected accompaniment for a Salvation Army bell ringer in Manhattan. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes on what they call the Guerrilla Handbell Strikeforce.
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about 3 months ago - 8 comments
I’ve been using Google Voice since it was known as GrandCentral. It changed over sometime March 2009. Too bad they didn’t have that nifty “vanity name selector” when I signed up or else I would have gone for something like ###-BEEJ. Well, Google Voice is available by invitation only, and it seems pretty tough for More >
about 1 year ago
I’m using chrome right now… it’s pretty fast… i found one thing that really bugs me so far:
you can’t choose to ALLOW pop-ups yet… you’d have to manually drag it up to show the pop-ups… which sometimes defeat the point of a pop-up (meebo? any type of browser embedded IM?)
hi jen
about 1 year ago
After looking at the extensive (long) comic version of the Chrome introduction and tutorials, i think the way that it handles typical popups is good, tying them to the same tab-session. I too use Meebo, and agree that there needs to be some option to allow pop-ups to pop-OUT and serve as slave satellites to that tab-session. Did you promptly send a bug report to Google using Chrome’s bug report tool? I highly recommend it while development is still fresh on their minds and team budgets.
about 1 year ago
I found a way to disable the popup blocker by using what they call a “startup switch.” Startup switches are parameters you can use when you launch the program to customize its behavior.
To use a startup switch, create a new Chrome shortcut on your desktop or edit an existing shortcut. Right-click it and choose Properties. In the Target field, add the switch in question immediately following the path to chrome.exe. For example, your target to disable the popup blocker should look like:
“C:\Documents and Settings\jen\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” -disable-popup-blocking
You can check out list of “startup switches” for more. Hope this helps.
about 1 year ago
No support for Flash yet, so it won’t take over the world just yet. However, if you look at the design, they are building it like an operating system, where the main application spawns processes and manages the stack/space for each page.
Microsoft should watch carefully, as Google’s idea is the browser will become the replacement for the personal computer, which will become just a dumb terminal, with no need for Windows.
about 1 year ago
thanks Jen. I’m sure Chrome will get much more advanced very quickly, while still maintaining the simplicity and fast interface that we all enjoy.
about 1 year ago
I hesitate to use even upgraded versions of Chrome, since my last experience using it (first version) left my computer compromised; have they fixed the security issues beyond all doubt?