Technology
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San Francisco: Fog
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Here’s a screenshot of my desktop on Ubuntu. The top bar displays several application launcher icons. One of them is my weather report. Usually, the temperature is displayed along with a little icon of sun or clouds. But today, it is just a gray box. How sad.
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Life Is Just A Series Of Events…
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Techno Tuesday High five to Laughing Squid.
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10 Ways to Create a Work Environment That Drags You Down
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Tree Style Tabs
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I’ve been using a new Firefox extension called Tree Style Tabs. It’s great for widescreens because it takes all your tabs from the top of your browser and places it along the right or left side, saving a lot of vertical screen space. It took a little time to get used to. Once in a…
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Hide Facebook (New Layout) Ads
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Finally found one that doesn’t shift the page around. Only works for Firefox users with Greasemonkey installed. Link.
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Pink for October
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I’ve gone Pink for October, in honor of breast cancer awareness month. Too bright? Let me know and I can tone it down a little.
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New Facebook Homepage
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Just a new hompage for facebook today when I logged out. I didn’t notice anything else that was new. So what’s the verdict? Who like the old fb and who likes the new?
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goosh.org
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goosh.org - The unofficial google shell that behaves similar to a unix-shell. High-five to Darryl for this geeky goodness.
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Added Lifestream Page
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Don’t know why anyone else would be interested in this, but I like having this documentation of my actions all across the web in one place. It’s like the newsfeed in Facebook, but it’s my very own web lifestream page. I used David Cramer’s lifestream plugin for wordpress. You can download it here. There’s also…
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Mythbusters-Fun with Gas
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Mythbusters guy shows how the gases helium and sulfur hexafluoride each alter the sound of our voices in very different ways.
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Picasa 3 beta (windows only)
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Again, Google continues to carry out its mission: to try to take over the world. I’ve just downloaded the Picasa 3 beta. You can now make movies, take screenshots and webcam shots, add watermarks and print captions. It also comes with a new photo viewer that looks like this: Hey, the easter egg still works!…
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Google Chrome Beta Download (Windows Only)
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Edit: Sept. 3, 2008 me: i miss my adblocker joey: it has adblock joey: doesn’t it joey: o wait it doesn’t joey: lol it doesnt’ block google ads oh, and type about:internets into the address bar to get a fun little animation. If you haven’t heard the news, Google released its own browser today. Google…
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IE: stupid or superb
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Joey: internet explorer is the stupidest browser ever madde me: nice me: haha Joey: there’s so much stuff that works on other browsers but not IE me: yep me: johnny doesnt think so Joey: and now there’s little button that works on IE 6 but not IE 7 me: neither does my friend hsin Joey:…
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The Dot, Plus, and Googlemail Gmail Hacks
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Here are some neat things regarding Google’s email I’ve found recently. They might not be new, but I think I need to jot them down here so I won’t forget these tips. These hacks could be helpful for fighting or tracing spam. The Dot Apparently, Gmail does not recognize the dot (or capitalization either) in…
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Dark XP and Gmail
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For everyone who has followed me on the internet all these years, they know that I have a dark side. I absolutely LOVE dark-themed websites, for some reason. All my websites have been dark, save my very first Blogger template. I even wrote about the switch from light to dark back in 2002. Too bad…
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Just Launched: new Google Wake Up Kit!
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Just found this in my Google Calendar: Do you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning? We do, too. In fact this problem became so serious at times that it sometimes resulted in lacklustre attendance at team meetings. To help solve the problem we’ve created an innovative solution called the Google Wake Up…
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Google Goes Black to Go Green
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Is black the new green? Google turned its home page black in support of Earth Hour. TechCrunch brings up a good point: Google, ironically, is causing more people to visit their site, using even more power to celebrate Earth Hour than they would on a normal day. It looks so funny that it almost made…
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What’s this Twitter thing?
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Am I the only one out of all my friends who uses Twitter? Maybe it’s because I’m the biggest internet geek I know or it’s because of my unlimited free texting that comes with my phone plan. Either way, there’s so much hype about it nowadays that I finally had to see why people like…