One Reason To Avoid Flash Based Sites
I really don’t spend a lot of time thinking about flash based sites and how much I love/hate them. If they let me “skip intro”, great. If not, it better load fast.
The other day, I actually found something that would concern me if my company was thinking about implementing a flash based site. [...]
Using the Firefox URL Bar to search the search engine of your choice
I was asked in the comments of a recent post how to change the search engine that is used when you type something into the URL Bar (or Smart Bar) in Firefox.
By default, if you type a non-URL in the URL Bar in Firefox, Firefox will automatically send those keywords to the default search engine [...]
Searching for friends on Plurk
Plurk does not seem to have implemented any method of finding people by usernames that you might know from other social sites.
I was doing a little playing around figuring that Google should be able to handle it. But how?
If you go to Google and type “site:plurk.com <some word(s)>” (without the quotation marks) it will [...]
Google Reader on a ASUS Eee PC
I use my little ASUS Eee PC quite abit. In fact, I’m using it right now to write this post. The computer really is all kinds of amazing.
I really love being able to scan through Reddit and check email and sports scores without going down to the desktop computer in the basement.
I use [...]
Ways I Use The Firefox 3 Smart Location Bar
One of my favorite things about Firefox 3 is the speed. Or maybe the decrease in memory leaks…sorry memory fragmentation.
But the change that I have actually used the most is the new Smart Location Bar. This thing where you type the URLs:
Fascinating, right?
But there’s some serious power in there. I haven’t spent [...]
Firefox 2 and 3 Forward and Back Buttons
I have both Firefox 2 and 3 (RC2) installed on my computer. Once the final release comes out for Firefox 3, I will get rid of 2.
In the meantime, sometimes I click on the icon for Firefox 2 and sometimes Firefox 3. Apparently Firefox 3 is getting rid of the Forward/Back buttons as [...]
Netflix Million Dollar Challenge
How did I miss this for two years? Netflix is running a contest through “at least October 2, 2011 with a prize of $1 million.
But this isn’t a simple through you name and phone number in a hat and cross your fingers type of prize. You actually have to earn this one.
Netflix will [...]