There are two keystrokes related to the built-in Firefox search box that I love. Ctrl-k on Windows, Cmd-k on Mac, and Ctrl-j on Linux selects the search box. Until I found this I would do Alt-D/Cmd-L to select the Location Bar, and then Tab to the search box. Once you are in the search box [...]
It’s been reported today that Yahoo! is going to start offering unlimited email storage starting in May. Now, when GMail came out Yahoo! and Hotmail only offered something like 20-50MB of storage. GMail’s offering of 1GB of storage blew those other limits away. As it stands now I have +2.8GB of storage in my GMail, [...]
One thing I am regularly frustrated with is the lack of ability to enter a TAB into a web form. There are times when you want to use TAB spacing, but are relegated to hitting the spacebar a bunch of times. With Tabinta — Tab In Textarea — that problem just disappears. One obvious drawback [...]
Most people in the tech industry are familiar with the accronym LAMP (if not, follow that link). MAMP is a variation on LAMP, but for Mac. I need to preface this post with the advice that the product I’m about to show is not for “production” type environments. The official word is: MAMP was created [...]
I’ve mentioned this other places, but it’s definitely worth repeating. In some applications with tabs you can cycle through the tabs with a simple keystroke: Ctrl and Page Up or Page Down. Page Up will cycle you left, and Page Down will cycle you right. I want to create a “definitive” list of applications where [...]
I just recently added the Digg It buttons on here. I had to do some debugging to try to get it to work properly, so I figured I’d pass along my work for anyone else to use. There are two things that I did to make it work right: Modify the posts loop on the [...]
I writing this post not from my home in Oregon, but from Boise, Idaho. Some colleagues and I are in Boise visiting our campus here for work. When we setup this trip last week I got to thinking about airport wifi, and how I was very glad that the airports in both Portland and Boise [...]
A while back I was given a book to read on blogging, aptly title “Blog.” In the section I was reading last night I was struck by some of the things Hugh Hewitt was saying, and how I completely overlooked “leadership blogs” in my Web 2.0 at Work series. Every single day a blog gives [...]
I was just having troubles getting into Google Reader to check my feeds, and once I was able to get in I noticed something different right away. There used to be a Refresh link at the bottom of the subscriptions section of the page, next to the Manage Subscriptions link. This button at the top [...]
I’ve been following Joe Tan‘s plugin development for WordPress for quite a while. I initially checked his stuff out for his Flickr Photo Album plugin, but found my favorite plugin of all-time (behind SpamKarma2 of course): Google Analytics and Feedburner Reports. Obviously this plugin only benefits you if you use Google Analytics and Feedburner on [...]