If you’d have asked me, I’d say that you’re making something up when you mentioned “zombie cookies.” Turns out they’re real, they’re irremovable, and they often come from Microsoft.
August 23, 2011August 22, 2011Presenting the New Save Icon
August 20, 2011Why Johnny Can’t Ctrl+FJust about everyone knows how to “Google” something, and indeed the word Google has become synonymous with “search.” Even so, apparently too few people know that there is a common command Ctrl+F that can be used to find something in a document or on a page. How few? Try 90 percent of them.
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August 17, 2011Random Updates for AugustJust some fleeting thoughts . . .
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August 16, 2011Windows 8 UI PreviewWow. Microsoft is going all tablet-y with their user interface on Windows 8. Prepared to be confused! August 15, 2011Wambooli PorchCam 2.0This weekend I put up a new Wambooli PorchCam, completely different from the previous PorchCams. That’s why it’s the 2.0 version.
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August 11, 2011Yet Another Story About the “Death of the PC”This one is from IBM itself, where they say that the PC is definitely dead, dead, dead. That’s because the guy who used to work at the PC division at IBM now loves his iPad. Obviously IBM is continuing it’s age-old tradition of promoting the best and brightest. Until you can write all the code for an iPad on an iPad, I seriously doubt the PC is dead. August 10, 2011Anonymous Targets FacebookThis November 5, which is Guy Fawkes day, the hacker group Anonymous is going to target social networking giant Facebook for certain death. The group has its grievances, listed in the article linked to below. Can they do it? Does it matter? What if Facebook just randomly decides to crash that day? How would we know? Dictation Capitalization
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August 9, 2011Pudding FaceThis is creepy. The web site linked to below shows a “pudding face.” That’ some poor actor whose face is animated depending on the mood of various tweets. You see the tweets posted live on the site, and the face is animated accordingly. Worth a gawk.
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