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Google Paying for Firefox Installs
Nov 6th
IBM invents new type of light
Nov 6th
Yahoo Maps pranks Google
Nov 6th
Found this hilarious article over at Sillicon Valley Sleuth. I read it myeslf and it is absolutely hilarious. Enjoy.
Yahoo engineers apparently couldn’t help themselves. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed “The Dude’s Fish Store” at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA.
The address is better known as the headquarters for Yahoo’s competitor Google.
Yahoo claimed to have further information (screenshot here) about the store, listing hours of operation (only open in summer) and an assortment of fish, hamsters, gold fish, snakes and spiders. Languages spoken are German and Russian.
The store even has a basic website More >
Ever wonder what its like to be color blind?
Nov 6th
While searching through Digg, I found a really cool site that can show you any website as if you were color blind.
Want to give it a try? go here: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/.
I’m not color blind, and I’ve definitely never wondered what it is, but hey, still a nifty link to check out!
Unfortunately, this is the top article on digg.com as I compose this, so it is getting a large volume of visitors. I can’t get to it, yet. Hopefully the volume of visitors will die down soon so we can all check it out.
Enjoy for now! -Devious
More >Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 Released
Nov 5th
For all of you email and thunderbird users, Mozilla.org released Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 recently.
Here’s whats new in Thunderbird 1.5 RC1:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved. * Sort address autocomplete results by how often you send e-mail to each recipient. * Spell check as you type. * Saved Search Folders can now search across multiple accounts. * Built in phishing detector to help protect users against email scams. * Podcasting and other RSS Improvements. * Deleting More >
Introducing the Tagging System
Nov 5th
I’ve installed a pluggin called the Ultimate Tagging Warrior. It is a category system that can surpass the possibilities of categories. I can tag things on the fly, and organize the postings better.
This shouldn’t affect visitors to much, but it makes my job a lot easier!
If you go to the archives page, you can see all the tags, and how popular each one is. The bigger, thicker, and bolder a tag name is, the more posting it has in it. Pretty cool!
Enjoy. -Devious
Cool Google hack with Digital Cameras
Nov 5th
Here’s a fun thing to play around with, if you’re bored at 3am. Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a lot of people take these photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them. So by clicking this link you can see the first photo taken by someone with their new camera or newly formatted card for some cameras, this is what it looks like when thousands of Sony cameras lose their photo-virginity.
Here’s some filenames for various other cameras:
IMG_0001.JPG is the equivalent for Canon cameras. More >