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“Geeks” are usually pretty pressed for time. Well maybe not pressed for time, but we’d probably rather be programming or playing UT2k4 than doing the laundry. So rather than go to work wearing a crumpled and wrinkled shirt every day, fold your shirts like a ninja does. It only takes 7 seconds per shirt, and […]

To help stop the flow of comment spam in MT 2.661, SixApart decided to implement url redirects on user’s comments. While this proved to be very effective, it had the downside of killing usability because you could no longer tell what site was behind the commentor’s link without clicking on it. Well now Tom Werner […]

It’s a really interesting site run by a really interesting guy, Raffi Krikorian - who wastes his time doing research for MIT Media Labs. How trite, isn’t it?

That’s what Andrew has to say about mehack. Always fun to read sites where people do it just for fun. Hmmmm, sort of like this one.
He even […]

When I backup my blog every few days, I log in to my host’s CPanel, navigate to the right page, and click the links to download the .tar.gz files for each of my MySQL databases. While this does work, to say the least it’s annoying to have to go to the site every couple of […]

Dunstan Orchard frequently posts panoramic montages on his popular weblog and, everytime he does so, he gets asked how he put the image together.
Orchard composits his montages manually in Photoshop which can be a labour-intensive process.
For the rest of us mere mortals there is PTgui, a graphical user interface to Helmut Dersch’s “Panorama Tools“.
PTgui makes […]

HTMLArea lets you replace your plaintext textareas with a nice, clean WYSIWYG editor, so you don’t have to teach your users HTML.

A great resource for designers who like to focus on the minor details of a site. Just don’t steal them :).

Yesterday we had RSS Jobs and today we have RSS Quotes. Eventually RSS Readers will replace web browsers and the world will find out that we gained zero productivity out of the transition. This one stays free forever, but is limited to five quotes. My tech picks would be Apple, AMD, Yahoo, Novell, EMC.

We posted about Lorem ipsum before but that was only one site. Here is another site that generates the Lorem Ipsum text, but with more options. I like the fact that I can choose different languages. L33tspeak rocks!
Thanks to Marek Moehling for the link

You know the search bar in the Firefox toolbar? While it is one of the best of Firefox’s features (aside from tabbed browsing, of course), the biggest complaint with it is probably that it’s just too small to be able to type search queries into it that are longer than one word. Well, now you […]

I don’t how many of you knew about this, but I just recently discovered this really cool feature at Yahoo! Maps that allowed me to search for a location and then find all the hotspots in the area. Of course not all of them were free hotspots, but they were still hotspots.
Why you can’t add […]

What can be done by a single person to reduce stop-and-go traffic? Quite a bit, as it turns out.

To follow up on what I spoke about previously concerning new paradigms in destop environments, the guys over at TheMacMind have written an excellent editorial outlining the problems with the file browser type navigation and how using a spatial methodology is more effective.
They then go into detail on how this new methodology (currently implmented in […]

A great discussion concerning the implications of Lessig releasing his latest book, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity, under a Creative Commons License.

It began like any other weekend. Just casually readin’ the blogs. Then I stumbled on this post from AKMA wondering if anyone […]