A couple of weeks ago, I got a surprise holiday gift from Gary Lee at EliteLED.com. He wrote,
…When I first learned about this stainless special edition LD01 from Fenix, I told myself this would be a perfect holiday gift for my friend Bill. I know you are the AAA light person and you would be [...]
It’s interesting how things swing back and forth: fads, trends, convictions, loyalties. No, I’m not talking about politics — despite the changeability of its practitioners, that’s one thing that seems to remain relatively stable amongst the majority of us hoi polloi. (I made a major change back in the early ’80s, but that [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been fooling around with several Linux distributions (distros). For those who don’t know, “Linux” is a core operating system (kernel), around which various programming teams have built a variety of interfaces. Linux itself is a variant of Unix, basis of the Mac OS and a number of others. Thus, [...]
Internet Fixes has an article this week about using passphrases instead of passwords. That would involve using Windows’ ability to utilize 127 character passwords, and using a random phrase instead of using a random password.
Example: My Aunt Nellie eats cat food!
Here we have 29 characters, including spaces, three capitalized letters and a punctuation mark. This [...]
How many times have you finally managed to successfully type a comment into one of those dumb little text boxes on someone’s blog (or the composition box on your own blog), or in any one of the variety of dumb little text boxes scattered around cyberspace, only to have something go wrong and lose the [...]
I’m in the process of learning to use PhraseExpress, a boilerplate manager/clipboard utility/corrects-as-you-type-and-works-in-any-program-not-just-Word application that Windows Secrets recommended. So far I’m seriously impressed.
Here’s what the Web site has to say:
PhraseExpress organizes your frequently used text snippets:
Expand abbreviations and common phrases as you type.
Launch applications by entering text shortcuts.
Autocomplete phrases with the predictive text feature.
Quickly handle [...]
For readers who track RSS feeds (and if you don’t, why don’t you?) the Sage feed reader for Firefox (and if you don’t why don’t you?) is back, in the form of Sage Too.
Here’s the description from the Fx extension page:
Sage-Too is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It’s got [...]
A real quickie here.
We just got a new Systemax PC at work to act as server for a surveillance camera system. Being constitutionally unable not to poke around in a computer’s nether regions, I noticed some interesting things about the hard disk hookup. Looked suspiciously like a USB connection.
Going down to the system [...]
Gize,
I don’t know if you ever tried (or had an urge to try) Ubuntu Linux. I installed it a year or so ago, and was massively (sorta) unimpressed.  It definitely showed promise, but the installation was a PITA, and the interface just wasn’t quite ready for prime time. You had to download an ISO, burn [...]
If you use Gmail in the “new version” you should take a good look at Better Gmail 2, an interface package put together with Greasemonkey user scripts by Gina Trapani. Originally available on Lifehacker, it is now an official Mozilla extension for Firefox 3.
Better Gmail 2 offers a number of enhancements, including
Force Gmail to make [...]
