July 2008
264 posts
“I was resigned for a long time to JS being unpopular due to those annoying...”
– CTO of Mozilla Corporation Brendan Eich
StExBar Beefs Up Windows Explorer [Featured... →
Windows only: Free application StExBar adds a toolbar full of useful shortcuts and commands to Windows Explorer. Even better, the add-on binds keyboard shortcuts with virtually every action…
Google Reader w Mozilla Prism z obsługą trybu... →
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Interesting, gotta try it out
Just for fun: Tumblr celebrities
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It’s summer, my holidays are 3 days away… time for something different. Do celebrities use Tumblr?
So far, I found Kevin Rose of Digg… anyone spotted someone else??
Yeah, there’s me, for example ;)
“Bitches leave.”
– Clarence Boddicker (via jstn)
“This is apparently from some comic where Jesus hops off the cross at the...”
– Frames and Panels Index - Frames and Panels I’m not posting the pic - you got to see it yourself…
The 6 Worst Comic Book Super-Husbands →
With great power comes acting like a total dick.
Comic for July 30, 2008 →
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Right
The problem with Wikipedia (and the internet in... →
jacobchristensen:
It all began with a discussion of stereotypes and ended here.
The Key to Effective Viral Marketing is Emotional... →
Viral marketing is the process of using peer-to-peer communications in order to rapidly spread information about a brand or message. The term ‘viral’ stems from the concept of a ‘virus’, a…
How to Sync Any Desktop Calendar with Google... →
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Strange - I’ve been using Thunderbird and Google Calendar for a while now (I posted a small tutorial on tumblr) and it was working perfectly :)
As of yesterday’s…
Blow Up Shows Off Flickr Photos Full-Screen... →
Webapp Blow Up displays Flickr photos in a full-screen slideshow for closeup browsing. When you want to show off your vacation photos from this summer that you uploaded to Flickr, head…
Scratch the historical record and hear hip-hop's... →
“This is the internet, there is no such thing as the next day.”
– 5 Tiny Mistakes That Lead To Huge Catastrophes | Cracked.com
Pushup : Pushing up the web →
Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users update their outdated browsers.
More than you ever wanted to know about Microsoft... →
Oh… So that’s why M$ Vista is crap - because of those naughty OEM guys who install these strange, no-good applications which make your PC slow, change Control Panel to a non-usable, where-is-that-important-function thing.
Technical stuff about Operating Systems is sometimes hard to digest (and discuss), but things like usability and overall performance can be seen with naked...
‘Scenario’ (Unreleased Version) →
As he promised in the comments of the last post, Peter Divito from 2020Proof has come through in the clutch and laced me with one of the original takes of ‘Scenario’ featuring the whole…
“And people wonder why my mouse pad has a target on it labeled “BANG HEAD HERE.”
– Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » This Is What Hell Is Like
Witness The Birth, Death Of The Autobots In New... →
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Most important news this week! ;)
If you’ve ever wondered just how the original Transformers were created - If they’re robots, then surely someone built them, right? - then you…
Gigabyte M528 MID →
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I want it, really - you can buy it for me. Please?
The Gigabyte M528 is a ultra-portable Mobile Internet Device that is scheduled for release later this year. The mobile…
What’s the Fastest Way to Code a Loop in... →
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As far as I know the ‘reverse for loop’ is fastest i Javascript for (var i = Things.length - 1; i >= 0; i—){ Things[i].doSTH(); };
Gregory Reimer, frontend engineer for…
“int i is perfectly valid in a small loop. I’ve met programmers who would...”
– Ian Hickman on Software, Technology and Leadership: 5 rules of variable naming.
42 Kilobytes Unzipped Make 4.5 Petabytes →
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Ouch!
In 2001 reports about Zip Bombs or Zip of Death attacks made the round on the Internet and I thought it would be nice to write about one shiny harmless example of that…