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Josh Bancroft - How I Use FriendFeed, and Why I Love It

Josh Bancroft — Sat, 2 May 2009 17:30:38 +0000

Steve - you're welcome. It's one of my favorite FF features.

Josh Bancroft - How I Use FriendFeed, and Why I Love It

Josh Bancroft — Sat, 2 May 2009 17:29:28 +0000

Cheryl - d'oh! I thought I had fixed all those. Guess I should check that "case sensitive" box next time I do a big replace like that. :-)

Scott Loftesness - How I Use FriendFeed, and Why I Love It

Scott Loftesness — Sat, 2 May 2009 15:58:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing the tip about hiding tweets - except those with likes/comments. Great!

Josh Bancroft - Windows 7 SKUs Revealed - Which One Will Land On Netbooks?

Josh Bancroft — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:24:37 +0000

Testing a comment here, to see if Intense Debate will pick it up and pull it into my blog, like it's supposed to. :-)

corourke - Windows 7 SKUs Revealed - Which One Will Land On Netbooks?

corourke — Wed, 4 Feb 2009 00:18:51 +0000

Why not bundle it? If you own a netbook odds are you own a fullsize system as well. So I'd suggest that Microsoft ought to give a free netbook edition to anyone who purchases home premium, business or ultimate. It'd help spur sales of the full versions, keep people closer to a homogeneous OS environment (best solution for security overall) & gives that "something for nothing" feel everyone likes. For people who dislike that or don't want to upgrade their desktop OS the price should be the same as Home Basic is now for Vista. Granted this doesn't really account for manufacturer pricing but they already pay pennies on the dollar to MS for each license so I'm guessing the cost is already bundled in.

Matt - Bit.ly, a new URL shortener, launches, but I'm not going to use it. Yet.

Matt — Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:09:07 +0000

urlShort at http://u.mavrev.com/has a, sometimes working, Firefox extension, and an always working bookmarklet, that both do about the same thing as TinyURL's. The best way I've found to use our bookmarklet is creating a keyword for it in Firefox, mine's set to "u", so whenever I find a page I want to share I just do alt+D and u and bam, shortened URL for Twitter.

Dm - Apple Mighty Mouse Won't Scroll Down

Dm — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:51:46 +0000

Take two or three sheets of clean printer paper. Dab very little saliva onto the mouse ball and roll it around firmly on the paper. You'll be surprised how much junk comes out of there. Works every time.

amreek - Google Talk Sounds

amreek — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:14:22 +0000

thanks u very much....

Brent Logan - Narrating My Work

Brent Logan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:02:39 +0000

You don't suck. You're burnt out. And that's okay.

Take a blogging sabbatical -- intentionally this time. Set a specific time when you'll decide what to do next. Maybe you'll back reinvigorated wanting to blog multiple times each day. Or maybe you'll realize you like your life better without the pressure of having to post.

As far as narrating your work, you're probably already doing that on Twitter. Mission accomplished!

Natalie - Ask me anything about Intel, and I'll blog the answer

Natalie — Sat, 3 Jan 2009 09:01:45 +0000

hey, i have an internship interview next week, and i have to do a short presentation on... how can intel enhance its relationship with one of its top customers, Dell.

i'd appreciate any help :)

kneegrab - Apple Mighty Mouse Won't Scroll Down

kneegrab — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 18:21:24 +0000

While I guess I always knew that mice had clitorisi, I had never really explored that concept. Thanks for the tip -- a nice soft touch is often not enough. Sometimes one has to just give it more attention!

Bob - How To Get People To Link To and Talk About Stuff You Write Without Being a Jerk

Bob — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 16:40:19 +0000

Thanks for the help

Aaron - New "Restore Session" UI Feature in Firefox 3.1 beta 2

Aaron — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:34:29 +0000

Very cool. I've been known to crash a browser or two in my day. This will help avoid what occasionally happens now, where I restart the browser, tell it to restore, then go on a frantic clicking effort to find and close the (suspected) misbehaving tab before it loads far enough to crash again. Sure, it'll take some of the adventure out of my day... but I suppose it's worth it.

Chris - New "Restore Session" UI Feature in Firefox 3.1 beta 2

Chris — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:20:14 +0000

I love that! I hate it when I lose all my other tabs because one (usually IE Tab) miscreant. I know if I reload that set it will just crash again. I have wished so many times I could reload all my tabs except that one.

Victor - I think my Nikon D40 has a sensor defect

Victor — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:09:37 +0000

http://www.nikonistas.com/digital/foro/index.php?...
SAME PROBLEM !!!

KC - Photos of Verizon Fios Fiber Broadband Install, End Result

KC — Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:57:04 +0000

Well, as long as the connection is the PPPoE like DSL, it should be fine. The open authorization is good, just username, no password, on less stuff to remember. The only thing is, once the connection is reset, the IP will change, minor inconvenient.
I don't need fios TV either, I got the cable line to use. But do you know if fios TV got clearQAM channels or all are encrypted?
And for the ONT box, it got the RJ-45 output. So the technician would have to open a hole on the wall anyway for the network cable to go indoor? this part itself it is big job.

jay - Apple Mighty Mouse Won't Scroll Down

jay — Tue, 9 Dec 2008 14:38:38 +0000

hi there all you good people my mouse stopped scrolling up after just 2 months , i was gutted but the pressing really hard on the scroll ball worked for me in the end,so thanx very much guys ......jay

Josh Bancroft - Photos of Verizon Fios Fiber Broadband Install, End Result

Josh Bancroft — Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:29:39 +0000

KC, I believe the tech will only set up one computer. You're responsible for setting up sharing if you have a home network. They can't be expected to mess with your home network configuration, and frankly, I wouldn't want them to. :-) However, I was able to ask my tech if I could just have her hook up to my existing router, and she was happy to do that. YMMV.

I have no idea about Fios TV - don't have it, and am not interested in it. My brother in law has it, and I think they do just hook up the coax connector on the ONT to your home coax cable connection, to go to your TVs. I've heard that there's a separate box/router for the Fios TV, but I don't know.

KC - Photos of Verizon Fios Fiber Broadband Install, End Result

KC — Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:23:38 +0000

Of course I know it is the technician who do the installation, but I would probably still follow him around to see exactly what he did (like what you did).
I am concern about the router since I heard that the router they provided is quite suck (as usual).
two more questions
1. When he finally connects the RJ-45 cable to your system, he just config one system, and you have to setup your own router for the connection if you want to share it?
2. If people want to get the fios TV also, how different is it going to be? Since the ONT box already has the coax output, I think just connect the cable from the output to indoor is enough?