We picked up a great Firefox bookmark tip from [Colin]. He wanted an easier way to look up bug numbers on the launchpad bug tracker. Because the url is always the same with the bug number at the end of the address, he replaced the final portion of the url with %s. Now, when he types the keyword followed by the bug number in the address bar the bug page loads right up.
We don’t do all that many bug searches but it’s immediately obvious that this can be useful in a lot of ways. In the photo above…
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Custom shortcuts from Firefox address bar
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Wacom light graffiti
[Jon] wanted to have some fun with the Graffiti Research Lab’s LASER Tag. Unfortunately his computer wasn’t quite up for the challenge of detecting the laser pointer with a webcam. Not to be discouraged by this hardware limitation, he purchased a used Wacom tablet and threw together some code to make it work with the GRL display software. Now designs can be scrawled on the pad and the projector displays them with the familiar dripping paint effect.
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Wireless RGB light bulb
Want to make the above yourself? [Sprite_tm] did a thorough job documenting the build step by step (complete with pics, schematics, graphs, and links to the parts used). In summary, [Sprite_tm] busted open an Ikea CFL bulb to reuse the housing. Inside, he installed a scavenged power supply, ATtiny44, RGB LED module, and a radio receiver. A remote control allows [Sprite_tm] to change the lighting of his room to nearly any color. The cost of the project is a little under $30. The price tag isn’t so steep when one considers the insanely long lifetime of LEDs.
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Know More About How To Choose an Ebook Reader
The advent of the digital age has definitely made this world a more convenient place to live in. For instance, even the most avid reader would balk at the thought of bringing his favorite books with him wherever he goes. But with an electronic book reader, you don’t only bring your top five books, you get to take the whole library with you. It doesn’t matter if you’re traveling or just having a cup of coffee at the nearby caf, your books go with you everywhere. However, owning an ebook reader could cost you a few hundred dollars, and if…
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Friend.ly Photo App Spreading Through Facebook Like A Virus
A new Facebook Connect application has spread quickly around the Facebook social graph by tagging all of a user’s friends who have the same zodiac sign. This is the latest in a series of new photo tagging applications which have been spreading like wildfire across the site. The Facebook platform lets users easily tag their friends but by prompting users for unrestricted posting and unrestricted photo upload permissions, the application is able to spread like crazy. It leads me to wonder whether Facebook will begin cracking down on these types of apps.
The way Facebook’s new permissions system is that…
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@You Can Now Tag Users, Pages, And Apps On Facebook
Last week we wrote about Facebook’s new tagging functionality but as of this afternoon the feature finally went live. While the functionality is no different than initially described, many users are finding that this transforms the overall user experience. There are also many objects on Facebook which still can’t be tagged with applications and pages such as photos. You also can’t include tags within Facebook messages but I’d expect more robust tagging functionality to be added over the coming weeks and months.
So does this new functionality eliminate the need for Twitter? No, but it most definitely helps users to…
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New Facebook Application Creating Massive Volumes Of Photo Spam
The photo tagging phenomenon has officially jumped the shark on Facebook with the All my Friends! application which lets you instantly tag your friends in pre-made images. It’s not exactly a new concept but for some reason this iteration of the application has been extremely successful having attracted over 5 million users so far and growing daily.
The application could actually be a useful service but the way that ads are currently posted within the application makes us think that this app was simply developed to attract millions of users and generate a quick buck. I’ve written about these multi-user…
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How To Use Videos To Boost Your Facebook Page Traffic And Engagement
This is Day 17 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
If you want to connect with your fan base you need to use as many forms of media as possible. While written communication and photos are extremely effective tools for communicating, video happens to be one of the most popular forms of communication on the internet. It’s not surprising that video sites happen to rank as the most trafficked sites around the web. While there are many ways to integrate video into your Facebook Page, we’ve come up with three…
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Tag Your Way To 1,000 Facebook Fans
This is Day 16 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
One of the best features of Facebook Pages is the ability to tag fans in photos. As soon as you tag somebody, their friends can see the photo that they’ve been tagged in. Additionally, those photos will link back to your Facebook Page. I’ve seen a number of people abuse photo tagging in order to get more traffic. While that’s a strategy that could possibly work in the short-run, over longer periods of time you’ll end up turning people away.…
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jetAudio 7.5.4.20
jetAudio is integrated multimedia software composed of a single compact rack Not only does it play various music and video files but it also has other features such as CD burning recording conversion to other file formats and so on In addition to these features you have the ability to create your own Internet broadcasting by using JetCast which is provided with JetAudio Play all major file formats and discs including WAV MP3 MP3Pro OGG WMA MPG AVI WMV MIDI RM and video and audio CD Convert among audio file formats and record analog audio to various formats The program…
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How To Create A Facebook Note That Spreads Like Wildfire
This is Day 9 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here.
Remember the viral Facebook note about “25 things about me”? If you don’t then you probably haven’t been on Facebook for long. The 25 things about me note spread through Facebook and touched millions of users before it eventually died out. The main ideas behind the note was similar to a chain letter. You write 25 things people don’t know about you and then tag your friends and ask them to write the note as well. The end result was…
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Sending HTML Emails with Gmail
HTML email newsletters have come a long way in the past five years since this article was first written. They’re still a useful way to get a web page delivered to interested readers to encourage them to visit your website or have your readers perform an action. The email marketing process also has become routine.
This article brings you up to date on how best to code HTML email so that it will display well in most email software. It provides an exhaustive overview of how to code html email newsletters (even in Outlook) with links to free html email…
