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“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Seuss

Firefox Search Box Keys

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 ...

Unlimited Mail Storage…Ho Hum

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 ...

Tab In Textarea Firefox Plugin

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 -- ...

MAMP Makes Personal Web Serving Simple

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 ...

Moving Through Tabs

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 ...

Add Digg It Badge to Wordpress

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 ...

Airport Wifi

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 ...

More on Corporate Blogs

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 ...

Google Reader Update

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. ...

Wordpress Reporting With a Side of Noodles

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 ...

January 23rd 2008
Tags: Tools, Web 2 Comments

MindMeister Revisited

It's been a while since I talked here about MindMeister (11 months), and about six months since I've seriously used it. In that time they have made some pretty sweet changes. The big announcement in November was their release of MindMeister Offline. Built on Google Gears, MindMeister Offline allows ...
January 16th 2008
Tags: Links No Comments

Link Harvest: January 1 - January 16

Here are my links: Can You Run It?  Can you computer run that video game you've been eyeing?  Windows required. OpenLDAP + Samba Domain Controller On Ubuntu 7.10 - A great howto guide. ScreenSteps - Screenshot-based documentation, made easier. GCal In Your Firefox Sidebar
January 13th 2008
Tags: Firefox, Tools, Web One Comment

Tiddle Wherever You Are

A short while ago, I was talking with a co-worker about personal productivity (i.e. to-do) systems.  There are so many systems out there, and each with their own spin on GTD.  He showed me one that is a spin on the TiddlyWiki system:  Tiddlyspot.Tiddlyspot is a hosted version of TiddlyWiki, with a twist. ...
January 2nd 2008
Tags: Apple, Linux, Tools, Windows One Comment

Multi-protocol IM Clients Done Right

There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...
December 21st 2007
Tags: Firefox, Safari, Tips 'n Tricks No Comments

FF to Safari, pt. 2 - Import Bookmarks

One thing that I was dreading about this Safari-for-a-week thing was having to manually copy over my bookmarks from Firefox.  There's not much worse than wasting a bunch of time doing copy, paste, repeat.  A little Google search, and we have a winner!If you've got Safari 2.0 (or higher) you've got import and ...

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