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Technology
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Other Sites, Technology
Embedded searches in Google
I may be late to the party on this one, but I’ve just noticed it and I think it’s cool.
If you search Google for certain sites which are themselves searchable, you’ll get an inline search box right in your Google results.
So, searching for “wikipedia” gives you:It works for Urban Dictionary too..
Using the search box doesn’t […]
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Design & Programming, Mac, Software, Technology
How to get the dimensions of the dock with AppleScript in Mac OS X Leopard
05.26.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThis code snippet might be useful for anyone wanting to write a script to resize your application windows automatically to fit on your display.
Note: I’m fairly sure you need to enable UI scripting for this to work.tell application "System Events" to tell process "Dock"
set dock_dimensions to size in list 1
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Other Sites, Technology
Twitter and responsibility
Ariel Waldman claims she was harassed on Twitter, and Twitter refused to ban the user responsible. This has caused a huge outcry across the web, with many people accusing Twitter of negligence and cruelty.
This is an example of something I have often found to be a problem on many social websites (for example, online […] -
Technology
LOLrouter
04.17.08 | Permalink | 3 CommentsThis lovely error message was presented by my nice new Linksys WRT54GL router when I tried to replace the firmware with Tomato (fortunately, it was just a mistake on my part and everything went smoothly in the end).
PS.. the router is fantastic, especially with the replacement firmware. Realtime bandwidth monitoring, QOS.. rather better than […]
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Design & Programming, Technology
PyTwitFace: Twitter/Facebook mashup with Python
I’ve recently started using Twitter, but its “What are you doing?” functionality does have some overlap with the Facebook “Status“. It’d be nice to join these two things together, so that an update in one place would automatically update the other.
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Other Sites, Technology
Silly, silly YouTube
If someone using one of the foreign language versions of YouTube comments on one of my videos, I get the notification email in that language.
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Technology
Someone is trying to pair with me (not in a good way)
This just popped up on my screen:
Get lost, hi-tech nosey neighbour!
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Technology
The Guardian guide to hacking
The Guardian Technology supplement got technical in its news item about hacking attempts against the iPhone this week:
“The security company Independent Security Evaluators announced that it had found a way to take over an iPhone by injecting a bit of code through its web browser, causing a “buffer overflow” - which is like a river […]
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