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Archive for February, 2006
Like the salad served at the Pizza Hut but dislike the idea that it’s expensive and you are not allowed to take more than once? Here is a guide on how you can maximize your return of investment, invented by some creative Taiwanese students.
I take no responsibility if you get booted from the restaurant for practicing the following guide. So, beware.
Quick details:
1. Type about:config at your Firefox address bar.
2. Type browser.search.order at the filter bar.
3. Change browser.search.order.1 to Google.
Why?
I’m a big of del.icio.us and I thought it was a great news when the official Firefox extension was made available. Now you can tag and search your saved bookmarks even more easily.
However, I dislike the idea that it wants to be the first search engine of Firefox without even getting my permission first. Google is still the place I would go to when I want to look for something. Being someone lazy to take the hands off the keyboard, I want to be able to find something quickly by just pressing CTRL+K (Firefox’s keyboard shortcut for search). If Google is not currently the search engine, I can simply press CTRL+Up repeatedly before I start the search. With Google search engine as the first choice, you’ll never miss it because the scroll stops at the top and bottom position.
Note that you’ll have to do it everytime you upgrade your del.icio.us extension. Ouch.
If looking at yourself in the mirror seems boring, there is actually more you can get from a mirror. No, we are not at a stage where a mirror can answer to the questions like “mirror mirror on the wall, who is the prettiest of them all”. But we’ve got a mirror that answers your questions like “what the weather is going to be tonight?”.
Via Begadget.
Just when you think the new Sony Ericsson M600 is the slimmest 3G phone around, Samsung has launched the new SGH-Z150, which has an amazing thickness of 9.8mm!
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A new feature introduced by Google in its version 3 of Google Desktop is the “search across compters” feature. This feature is useful if you use more than a computer, as it stores your documents centrally in Google’s servers, enabling you to access your files on all your computers.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has however advised you not to turn on the feature. From their website:
Google today announced a new “feature” of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature will store copies of the user’s Word documents, PDFs, spreadsheets and other text-based documents on Google’s own servers, to enable searching from any one of the user’s computers. EFF urges consumers not to use this feature, because it will make their personal data more vulnerable to subpoenas from the government and possibly private litigants, while providing a convenient one-stop-shop for hackers who’ve obtained a user’s Google password.
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Google has announced the new version of its Google Desktop software. The new version 3 now lets you search files across all your computers. This new features will store your documents on Goolge’s own servers, and is only useful if you use more than one computer.
The new Google Desktop also lets you share things you find interesting in the Sidebar by right clicking on the items to send to your contacts.
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What happens when you are the richest man on the planet? A computer might be reserved just for you at the tax office of your country to handle your tax calculation, because you might be too wealthy to be handled by the regular computers. Bill Gates, currently the world’s richest man suffers this privilege.
“My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can’t deal with the numbers,” he said at a Microsoft conference held in Lisbon.
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