2008 Aug 8, 2:51
I've got a new office and I must clean off my inherited whiteboard. The previous owner left various diagrams, code snippets, etc. on for such a time that they can no longer be erased
by conventional means: the whiteboard eraser is useless! I couldn't find any whiteboard cleaner either, but Ali told me the following secret. You can write over the dried on text with a normal dry
erase marker. When you erase the new markings the old are erased as well. It sounds too fantastic, but believe me, its true! I don't know the brand or material of the whiteboard but the whiteboard
markers are 'Expo, Bold Color Dry Erase'.
erase howto whiteboard office secret nontechnical 2008 Jul 11, 1:12Non-Newtonian liquid on a subwoofer displays creepy results. I need to try this sometime. This links to lots of other similar experiments.
video physics science youtube via:boingboing 2008 Jun 8, 10:47Howto replace the GUI portion of the PowerShell.
howto msdn reference shell windows powershell microsoft 2008 May 4, 12:07Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door Guides. Having finished the game its fun to see various hidden things...
faq game mario videogame walkthrough howto paper-mario 2008 Apr 24, 12:32Throwies = LED + battery + magnet. Throw onto metal surface. Looks like fun.
art graffiti electronics geek howto streetart diy throwies cultural-disobediance 2008 Apr 22, 4:33Reaction to Phrack's howto on GPS jammer. Sounds like the article wants to make it into a bigger issue than it is: "Information in the article that appears in the current issue of the online hacker
magazine Phrack potentially puts at risk GPS devices use
gps gps-jamming phrack government 2008 Apr 22, 4:14DIY car lo-jack system using a cellphone and cellphone charger. "Now, if your vehicle is stolen, you can give the authorities the IMEI number from that in-car 'hidden' handset, which can then be
tracked using cell tower triangulation or GPS, and hopefull
diy howto video cellphone car 2008 Apr 15, 2:51How to use Consolas in cmd.exe among other places: "Consolas is one of a set of new ClearType fonts that shipped as part of Windows Vista and Office 2007... I love to code in it... In this post, I'll
go through all the places I use monospaced fonts."
font windows howto consolas code vista cmd 2008 Apr 11, 3:48Howto avoid spam with Gmail: "If your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com"
spam gmail blog google howto mail email 2008 Apr 7, 1:50Attach spam's pre-paid postage to objects and mail them back. FTA: "Dear Bulk Mailer, Please find attached to your no-postage-necessary envelope, this brick."
humor box junk mail prank spam howto 2008 Apr 3, 9:00
With the new features of IE8 there's several easy ways to integrate Gmail, Google's web mail service, for mail composition, searching, and monitoring that I enjoy using.
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Composition
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I made a Send via Gmail activity that allows you to select some text, a document, or link and via the activity menu open a new tab to compose a new message with the selection. Go to my activity page and click "Send via Gmail" (source) to install it. I found info on the gmail composition URL in the comments of this gmail howto article and used that in the
activity. I talked about activities previously.
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Search
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I've made a search provider that searches your gmail account. See my search provider page and select 'Gmail' (source) to install the Gmail search provider. Search providers aren't new to IE8 but this fits in with Gmail integration in IE. Again in the
comments of another howto I found information on a Gmail search URL.
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Monitor
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New to IE8 is authenticated feed support and favorites bar monitoring which combined with the Gmail inbox feed
means you can see when you get new mail in your favorites bar in IE. To do this, navigate to the feed https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom,
click 'Subscribe to this feed', then click on the Add button in the upper left (the star with plus icon) and select 'Monitor on Favorites Bar' to add this as a monitored item in the favorites
bar. Next, right click on the new item in your favorites bar, open the properties dialog, and enter your Gmail username and password into the new username and password fields. Now when you get
new mail the Gmail feed item will shine and bold and you'll be able to get to new messages in the dropdown. I described monitored feed items previously.
activity gmail search howto google ie feed rss opensearch 2008 Apr 3, 6:48The comments have info on URI template for gmail message composition: "https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=`echo $1 | sed 's/mailto://'`"
gmail mail uri howto reference google 2008 Apr 3, 2:49Looking for URI template to search over my gmail and found it in the comments: "http://gmail.google.com/gmail?search=query&view=tl&fs=1&q=%s"
gmail email google reference uri search howto 2008 Apr 1, 1:16Change HP printer status LED to read 'Insert Coin': "This little perl program allows you to set the "Ready Message" on HP printers to whatever you'd like."
humor prank printer hack hardware howto 2008 Mar 3, 9:19A howto from W3C on using MathML in a way that many people will be able to use.
math mathml web w3c reference browser plugin 2008 Feb 8, 3:27Tips on adding structured content to your webpages including microformats (ugh).
semantic semantic-web web html tips howto microformats 2008 Jan 31, 11:19Dang, my Vista must be broken!
humor howto box windows microsoft via:swannman help 2008 Jan 16, 2:53These are as bad as favicons! Boo on URI space squatting.
howto apple iphone icon favicon webdesign web ipod development via:swannman 2008 Jan 14, 10:16Stephen Toub implements closed captioning searching of videos recorded with Windows Media Center through Windows Desktop Search as an IFilter. I wanted to do the same thing after reading the related
Ars Technica article. Other interesting things in the
.net mce programming reference video caption dvr-ms howto ifilter development com software microsoft msdn blog article 2008 Jan 2, 8:57
Two and half weeks ago Sarah and I went to Las Vegas where I got to
see Jesse, Pat, Chris, and (briefly because he's some kind of big shot too busy for his friends now etc) Grib from college. They're mostly in San Jose and I hadn't seen them for a while so it was a
lot of fun to hang out. We all stayed at the MGM which is a nice hotel with some good restaurants. In other Vegas related links, Sarah added Sarah's Las Vegas restaurant reviews to her reviews and Jesse has Jesse's Vegas
photos up too.
Sarah and I saw the Blue Man Group (video from a concert) and the Price is Right Live Show. The Blue Man Group
was very cool although the music was all rock with a heavy drum focus (not depicted in the videos I linked) which I got a little tired of. But despite that I really enjoyed the show, very funny and
I totally recommend it. The Price is Right Live Show is like the regular show on TV except the recording is not televised and its not hosted by Bob Barker or Drew Carey. So folks from the audience
are still called up to play the same games and really win prizes. It was advertised as hosted by Todd Newton, B-list game show host, but was instead
hosted by JD Roberto who hosted such things as "Reality Remix" and the show "Are You Hot? The Search for America's Sexiest People". The showcase
showdown included the 2008 version of my car and thankfully I wasn't picked to compete for that because, well I don't know where they bought the car, but I would have gotten the price very wrong.
We sat right next to the stage for that show and had a good time.
For New Years Eve Sarah and I stayed in and watched the glitched Seattle Space Needle fireworks show from a safe distance. On New Years we went to a pot-luck at Todd's house and had a fun time. Todd's place
is on the top of a hill and has a lovely view of Washington's snow-capped mountains.
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