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  • Roll It: A Chrome Experiment

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    Skee ball google style.

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  • What your email sign-off really means

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    Like many people, I most often go for the safe option: the “cheers”. The trouble with “cheers” is, first of all, what does it actually mean? Am I literally cheering the person I’m writing to? Or is it a toast – am I drinking to their health and electronically clinking e-glasses with them? Of course,…

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  • It’s Official: Google Bought Waze

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    It’s Official: Google Bought Waze, my favorite navigation app. And I’ll have you know, I am a waze knight.

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  • Protecting Your Privacy

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    Via The Joy of Tech.

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  • Opt Out of Ads on Yahoo Mail

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    Anyone still using yahoo mail? If so, don’t forget to opt out of interest-based ads (aka “they scan your content”).

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  • Fan Wine

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    Apparently, you can buy San Francisco Giants wine or better yet, Star Trek wine. Update (5:20pm): forgot to mention Silence of the Lamb wines too.

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  • Anatomy of a Logo: Star Wars

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    …Though the poster contained no painted imagery, it did introduce a new logo to the campaign, one that had been designed originally for the cover of a Fox brochure sent to theater owners….Suzy Rice, who had just been hired as an art director, remembers the job well. She recalls that the design directive given by…

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  • Gmail’s New Inbox

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    Wow, that was fast. I already got the new Gmail inbox that they announced this morning.     It’s a brand new inbox on desktop and mobile that automatically organizes for you. The new inbox is rolling out gradually. I noticed a different gmail favicon at the top of the page so keep an eye…

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  • screensiz.es/

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    Quickly find the screen specifications of the most popular devices and monitors currently on the market. Awesome for responsive projects.

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  • PSA: Don’t Be A Glasshole

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  • Typographic Design Patterns And Current Practices (2013 Edition)

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    Some insight on current typography trends on the web.

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  • Google Easter Egg: The Shire to Mordor

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    If you go to Google Maps, click “Get Directions,” select walking, and search for directions from The Shire to Mordor, you get a Lord of the Rings warning in the form of an easter egg that “One does not simply walk into Mordor.” Google must be putting these out to celebrate Google I/O eve 2013.

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  • Google Easter Egg: Atari Breakout

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    Well look at what we’ve got here. Another Google Easter Egg! Enter Atari Breakout in the Google Image Search field. You’ll get results alright, but they’ll turn right into the old school game that I spent a lot of my childhood playing. Or just get the link.

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  • A Facebook Update In Real Life

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  • WordPress Users on Dreamhost: Upgrade PHP

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    For the past few days, I’ve noticed that my sites were running EXTREMELY slow. I hadn’t made any changes so I checked the server’s side. I noticed that all my domains were still running on PHP 5.2.x, which was not recommended. Not sure if this was the reason why my sites were slowed to a…

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  • Star Wars x Chinese Mythology

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    In honor of Star Wars Day today. May the fourth be with you. Buy on Etsy.

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  • Accordion web app

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    Play a virtual accordion by re-sizing your browser window.

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  • Forget Google Reader, it’s Star Wars Reader!

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    Since Google announced it’s killing off Google Reader in July, I’ve been using feedly. But forget that for now… Check out StarRSS. It’s a Star Wars themed/based RSS feed reader.  It just looks like the opening credits of every Star Wars movie. The posts fly past you in space, complete with the theme music by John Williams. Click on the…

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  • How to change your WordPress admin username

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    So after my post on why you should change your WordPress admin username, my friend Brad asked me how to go about changing it. So here’s a brief run down. Log in to your WordPress admin area. In the Users menu, click on “add new”. Fill in the info for the new user account.  You’ll…

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  • WordPress Security: change admin username

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    In 2012, my site was exploited, along with many other wordpress sites using outdated versions of TimThumb, a popular PHP-based image resizer. Apparently, their main goal was to use our sites as launch pads to go after major U.S. banks. After clearing out all the junk, I tried using a WordPress plugin called BulletProof Security, and everything seemed…

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