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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

Windows Screenshots

Windows comes with two ways to capture screenshots baked into the software. If you hit PrintScreen it will capture the entire screen to the clipboard. If you hit Alt-PrintScreen it will capture the active application/window to the clipboard. I very rarely use the full screen capture because I'm usually taking ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is Someone Tight Fisted With Your Data?

Whether you are the one wanting better access or the one acting as a gatekeeper, who gets to see what data is a major concern for any company. I saw an article back in the fall about who not to put in charge of your data access, so I'm ...

Be Nice To Your Programmers

Brett over at Cranking Widgets wrote a great piece about how to talk to a programmer. This is my favorite section: Don’t Demand Anything - Unless Fred reports directly to you, you’re not going to get anywhere if you crash into his Star-Wars-laden cubicle with guns drawn. The second you ...

Four Windows Key Uses

There are four keystrokes that involve the Windows key that I use on a daily basis at work. A variety of tasks are completed with them, and I'm sure these are not the only four out there. Windows-D minimizes all of your open application windows, showing the desktop. Windows-R will pull ...

Use SHIFT for Reverse

I vaguely remember when I learned this incredible trick in college, and it has saved me from reaching for the mouse any more than is absolutely necessary. If you can't already tell, I'm a keystroke kinda guy. The mouse is great and all, I just prefer leaving my ...

HTML Anchor Tag Tip

Google Tutor gave some valuable information out about creating better links in relation to the Google search engine. The gist of it is that when you make a link with text like "click here" the search engines are not indexing the link effectively. No matter how intelligent Google may seem ...

January 23rd 2008
Tags: Tools, Web 3 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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