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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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China friends! Go dance with the “Where the Hell is Matt” guy in Shanghai and Beijing! I want to see you in his videos. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, watch his old videos here. According to a tip on the Shanghaiist: In Beijing, he’ll be dancing in the Sanlitun area at the…
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Quick, Grab Your Arabic Domain Name
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Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses that contain no Latin characters. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are the first countries to have so-called “country codes” written in Arabic scripts. The move is the first step to allow web addresses in many scripts including Chinese, Thai and Tamil.
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Printable Checklist
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Create, modify, and of course, print a checklist using your browser’s print command. See it at http://printablechecklist.org/.
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“Stuff People Like” Websites
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Stuff White People Like and Stuff Korean Moms Like.
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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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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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April 4th, 40 Years Ago
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Update (April 5, 2008): Everyone’s knows of his “I Have a Dream” speech, but check out his very last speech in Memphis, the night before he was killed. Part one and part two, which is especially powerful and moving. Photo Credit: Trikosko/Library of Congress April 4, 1968- Dr. Martin Luther King was shot dead at…
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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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Creepy Lady Following Your Mouse
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Ew, another creepy flash-based site. It took awhile to load, so be patient. High-five to Laughing Squid.
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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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It’s Sarcastic Wednesday!
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For all the cubicle workers out there. This is probably one of my favorite e-cards that I’ve gotten so far. I can be very sarcastic, especially when I’m upset, mad, or frustrated. But over the years I’ve improved, trying to show the grace that I’ve received. Thanks, grrl.
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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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We have achieved fluidity…again.
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Been playing around with another photoblog plugin for WordPress. Still a lot of things I need to figure out, so we’ll see if I stick with this one. So this site is once again what they call fluid. All the columns should be pretty flexible now, and adjusts to the size of the browser window,…
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Are girls supposed to be this geeky?
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My brother got me another stick of ram for pennies, er, just about. I’ve been complaining that my computer has been running slower and he said it’s from all the junk that I run. Hey now. Anyways, the deal master came through and here it is, next to the old RAM that’s covered with a…
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X marks your experiences
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Here goes another (I wonder how much of this people know about me): Place an X by all the things you’ve done, or remove the X from the ones you have not, then answer the following questions and post it on your blog.” My comments in []. ( x )Smoked a cigarette [that’s according to…
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CenSEARCHip
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CenSEARCHip – A neat project at the Indiana School of Informatics compares Google US and CN for the same search. From the about page: When you click the "Web Search" button, each side of the display will first show you an estimate of how many English-language results the search engine has for that national version.…