tools
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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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Award Wallet
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I used to travel quite a bit in my last job and accrued some random airline miles here and there. I couldn’t keep track of how much I had and where they were until I found out about Awardwallet.com. It’s a free site that tracks your balances in one convenient place and even alerts you…
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My Glass Booth
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I almost titled this post: Barack, the baby killer? But before I get into that, check me out: There’s a little quiz at glassbooth.org that helps you find out which presidential candidate most closely aligns with you. I don’t usually post about politics much here, probably because I’m not much of a political person. But…
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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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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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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…
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Headphones and Feed Readers
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Look, these are only $30 on Amazon! I posted about them back in November. I gotta stop looking at all these deals. I've been buying online too much. Online shopping is addicting! I've also been sharing some of the deals at the bottom of this page. People have been asking me where I find them.…
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A newspaper clipping
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Cool Tool: Icebox
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Someone get me this so we can make igloos on our next snow trip. Yeah, right, can’t waste time of…
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Geek salad
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I worked a half day today, which was great cuz I got to relax. The other half was spent catching…
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Kevin Kelly — Cool Tools
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For my sister: a cool bug sucker. The bugs are sucked in good condition into a chamber on the end…
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CSS tricks, PHP code, and online webtools
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lixlpixel.org CSS tricks, PHP code, and online webtools
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A few free hours
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Wow, I forgot what color my car was. It’s been so long since I last washed it. It’s been brown for the last few months. Since I have a faster computer now, I thought I’d do a little customizing with some of the lovely tools over at Stardock. I love eye candy. I can’t stop…
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Web stuff for a living?
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D: procrastinating doing some work on somebody’s website BEEJ: it must be different when you’re not working on your own D: yeah, it’s different when it’s a job. D: i’m getting to do a little PHP scripting though, so that’s mildly interesting. BEEJ: that’s cool BEEJ: you write everything yourself? D: i probably *should* have…