Archive for November, 2006
If you’re using Firefox, then you’ll notice when you open a new tab it doesn’t go to your homepage. It actually goes to a blank screen. This has been bugging me for some time, so I googled around and found an extension that makes it go to your homepage. If you have more than one homepage set for multiple tabs, then it will default to the first one you have set. A bug I see with this extension is that when using it, it doesn’t work with “autotext”. Meaning when you open a new Google tab, and then type the start of something you’ve typed before on Google, it doesn’t show a list of things that you might want to type. With this extension installed, clicking a tab’s window twice will open a new tab as well. For some people this has been a problem, but I don’t see anything wrong with that. I guess it’s another one of those things users would call a bug, while developers would call it a feature ;)
This brings me to my next thought, which is multiple homepages for different tabs. I hadn’t known this feature had existed, until playing around with configuration options. Aparently you can open the items you want set as your homepage, and go to Tools > Options > Main and click “Use current pages” it will set them all as homepages. When you open a new instance of Firefox, it will open all those pages in new tabs. Also you could just separate the sites you want open with a | (pipe sign), and it will do it as well. I guess you learn something every day!
With all the fuss around YouTube hosting copyrighted videos, I’m surprised they aren’t doing anything about all the copyrighted music videos they host. In fact if you crawl their site you’ll find 10s of thousands of music videos. With a simple PHP script you can create yourself an archive of 20,000 free music videos, that stream incredibly fast. Granted some of the videos are people singing or playing the guitar over the actual music, but that’s a small portion. Some of them are also the real song with a 3rd party video. You get what you pay for in this case. Why use iTunes can you can use YouTube? I will of course post the list of videos, but I can’t promise you how long they will remain there.
Legal and free music videos. ““ Enjoy!
Other thoughts
If you are planning to go for your 156-215 right after 156-315 and 1z0-032, make sure you are already done with your 640-802. In other case you will have to write 70-290 as well as 70-536 all over again.
I’ve seen browser specific extensions that allow the resizing of textboxes, but this one tops them all. It’s a simple bit of JavaScript that you favorite place. Once it’s on your favorite places you put the cursor in the text box you want to resize. You then visit the book mark, and resize away. For Internet Explorer you can just drag the book mark into the text box you want to resize. There is one downside ““ and that being you need to click the book mark each time you want to resize a textbox on a site. With an extension to Firefox you can just resize anything at will. But for something that works on all browsers, there will always be a downside. (Via)
If you happen to be a Firefox user, there are two other extensions you might be interested in. Search bar auto resizer is an extension that will resize the search box on the toolbar that comes with Firefox. The cool thing is it requires no interaction; meaning it does it for you automatically. As far as I know this only works on Firefox 2.0. If you want to resize web forms in Firefox, you’ll be interested in Resizeable form fields. This allows you to drag and expand form fields in blogs or anywhere else. This one unlike the previous one works on Firefox 1.5 and up.
Democracy released version 0.9.2 today, and it’s actually usable. Previous versions were running rampant with memory leaks, freezing, and horribly slow. While the new version is slightly sluggish, it’s a 100% improvement. Switching between different channels now only lags for about a half second, compared to hardly working before.
If you’ve never tried Democracy, now is the time to do it. It plays most video extensions you can think of including my favorite; Quicktime files. You can even download and play videos from major video websites like YouTube, Google Video, and Yahoo Video. You can subscribe to video RSS feeds and podcasts and watch them with the same program. It also has a built in bittorrent client. Why use a T.V, when you can use Democracy? Best of all it’s free and opensource, and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Wal-Mart has decided to get its foot in the door offering movie downloads off their website. It’s not a true download service yet, and will require an actual purchase of the physical DVD. On the DVD will be a sticker directing the user to walmart.com/superman, where they will need to enter a promotion code. You can then download another copy of the DVD for a portable device ($1.97), a PC or laptop ($2.97), and a copy for both ($3.97). For now superman will be the only bundled offer, but more to come in the future. This service will be labeled as “beta” when it’s released”¦..*sigh*.
News Source: CNN