Cool Firefox Tricks
Wanted to share a few Firefox tricks I use often. Speeds things up in the internet surfing! These are specific to Windows… but just substitute Command (Apple) key for Cntrl and it works for mac too.
Keyboard shortcuts (true in most browsers):
- Spacebar (page down)
- Shift + Spacebar (page up)
- Cntrl + D (bookmark)
- Cntrl + T (new tab)
- Cntrl + K (Search box)
- Cntrl + L (Address bar)
- F5 (Reload page)
- Cntrl + R (Reload page)
- Cntrl + Tab (Move forward thru tabs) - Mac users, use Cntrl not Command
- Cntrl + Shift + Tab (Move backward thru tabs) - Mac users, use Cntrl not Command
Auto complete
I use this one a lot. Instead of typing “www.” in the address bar before an address, just type something like “apple” in the address bar and press Cntrl + Enter. It will automatically add the “www.” and the “.com” to the address.
New Photo Gallery Theme!
I themed my coppermine photo gallery to match this site.. so it’s more seamless between the two.
What do you think?
Track your dollar bills!
Found the words stamped on my dollar “Enter Series & Serial # at wheresgeorge.com”.
It’s a lot of fun, but just another internet time waster 
My dollar that was stamped with that came from Irving, TX - a waitress at iHop apparantly had it. They even calculate average speed per day and calculate how many miles it’s traveled.
Excellent open source code editor for Mac OS X
I found a most excellent code editor for Mac OS X and it’s open source - Smultron! So it’s free - but donations are welcome and it’s very well supported. I’ve used notepad++ for Windows which is great, but never found a good Mac alternative, until now.
Smultron has the basic features like color coding, but for sooo many different syntax definitions than even notepad++ supports. It has many many features I don’t even use, because I’m mostly using it for actionscript, javascript, and tweaking php template files from wordpress. It validates XHTML which is nice, but Dreamweaver already does this as well. Has a nice comment/uncomment command, I use that one a lot. It has a nice highlight current line option, so if the text is wrapping, you can see it highlighting the line below it. The auto complete function is kind of crazy… it never gives me what I’m actually looking for.. so I don’t use it use it much. Instead of having it on by default, you can press option+escape and it will give u the auto complete list. Auto-close tag is another nice feature.
Great Comparison
* Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing
* Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities
* Web 1.0 was about client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer
* Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML
* Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs
* Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS
* Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags
* Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless
* Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing
* Web 1.0 was about IPOs, Web 2.0 is about trade sales
* Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google
* Web 1.0 was about web forms, Web 2.0 is about web applications
* Web 1.0 was about screen scraping, Web 2.0 is about APIs
* Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband
* Web 1.0 was about hardware costs, Web 2.0 is about bandwidth costs
now playing: Rilo Kiley - The Money Maker
Redesign puhlease!
This site is in need of a major redesign.. and I’m feeling extra creative… I’m working on mockups. I’m pretty sure I want to move this site over to WordPress. I’m using WordPress on one of my other sites.. but I need to find a nice easy way to move Nucleus to Wordpress.
I found this method that talks about exporting the RSS feed from nucleus into wordpress. Buuuut, you lose comments and photos. Not acceptable! Isn’t there a better way? Has anyone else done something like this??
Also saw this on sourceforge. Looks promising but I can’t find any comments on it or anyone that’s used it.
We’re using Drupal at work as our CMS and it looks really great and very expandable. Sites like MTV, The New York Observer and other high profile sites are now using Drupal. I’m considering using this as an alternative to WordPress but I think Drupal may have a lot more features that I may or may not need or ever want.. we’ll see.
now playing: Sunset Rubdown - The Mending of the Gown
Fantastic time waster
This thing is a great time waster… I remember I played with it a bit in June and now I got hooked on adding photos. Totally eating up all my free time that I should be doing other more productive things…
Here are my photos
now playing: Shout Out Louds - 100 Degrees
i *heart* google homepage
Instead of compulsively checking a list of bookmarks for my friend’s blogs daily or catching up on weeks of their blogs entries, I have a new solution. Google homepage. I already use it for a bunch of other more “mainstream” blogs and rss news feeds, but it can be used for common sites like Live Journal, which several of my friends have.
Here’s a quick how to..
1. On your google homepage click “Add Stuff” on the upper right.
2. Next to the search box and button there’s a link that says “Add by URL”, click it.
3. If it’s a Live Journal you want to add, put in the URL followed by /rss/ (ie- http://username.livejournal.com/rss/)
And I added an RSS link to the bottom right of the navigation for this blog, so you can use that link and add it as well.
now playing: some soap opera Josh’s mom is watching
Flash Forward Instructional Winner
Since I’m so into Flash and instructional flash in particular.. this year’s entry in the Austin Flash Forward for instructional flash category really impressed me!
Great American Eat Right Challenge
I think it’s the subject matter as well though. I do some of the fitness tips like taking the stairs at work and in the parking structure. I never take an elevator unless I’m walking with a group to a meeting which is rare.
The recipes in the food section are pretty good ideas too.. they really get you thinking. Maybe I can make the delicious treats I make healthier
now playing: Peter Bjorn and John - Detects of My Affection
