Posted by Geneva at August 30th, 2006
Have you ever wanted to “amend†the Ten Commandments?
What would you add?
Here are some suggestions.
Thou shall watch thy step around agricultural colleges.
Thou shalt not goeth to a line that looks “goodeth,” chances areth, you would haveth been better offeth to stand behindeth the ten people in the othereth lane.
If it ain’t broke, [...]
Posted by Geneva at August 30th, 2006
So you love the internet, but you hate all the history, cookies, and incriminating whatnots hanging around your computer when you’ve finished “browsing”? Wanna keep your secret surfing under wraps? A few tools can help:
Download of the Day: Stealther Firefox extensionPosted by Geneva at August 30th, 2006
When I first saw those crazy kids at Make magazine laser-etching their laptops, I thought, “I want that! But where the heck will I find a $20,000 laser cutter?” Luckily I got to visit Make HQ this past weekend at FOO Camp, and got a Celtic knot tattooed onto my Powerbook.
Check out the (admittedly crappy cameraphone) video to see the etching in action, and hit the jump for some more photos and other designs.
The Epilog laser cutter was hooked up to a Windows machine running Corel Draw. I designed my knot in Photoshop, dropped it onto a thumb drive as a .bmp file, and loaded it into Corel Draw. We did a dry run on a piece of paper to line up the Apple in the space in the middle of the knot, but the process wasn’t an exact science. (Big ups to Chris DiBona for making sure we got it just right!)
This is the part when I knew for sure the design was in fact NOT going to touch the stem of the Apple logo, and I let out a big breath of relief.
And the finished product, which is perfectly - and unexpectedly - smooth as silk.
A few other PB’s got etched, as was a DS Lite. Digg’s Kevin Rose came by while my PB was getting etched, and he did his Macbook:
Thanks again to PT at Make and everyone at O’Reilly for making me love my Powerbook even more (and making it virtually unstealable!)
Posted by Geneva at August 30th, 2006
The TB QuickMove extension for Thunderbird moves messages to folders using a key combination you define.
Blast through your inbox and shuttle messages into the Trusted Trio without ever taking your hands off the keyboard. TB QuickMove adds THE feature T-Bird’s severely lacking. TB QuickMove is a free download, works wherever Thunderbird does (which is everywhere.) Thanks, Ian!
Posted by Geneva at August 29th, 2006
How much does 5 bucks in 1931 equal in 2001? The inflation calculator will let you know.
Using data from the Consumer Price Index, the calculator adjusts amounts of money for any two different years from 1800 to 2005 for inflation. Did your parents bring home $30k/year in 1984? You’re doing just as well as they did if you’re making $55,000 per year now. Verrrry interesting.
Posted by Geneva at August 29th, 2006
Reader Ludwig writes in:
Gmail’s spam filter is pretty good at keeping junk out of my Inbox. But recently I noticed spams not in my Inbox but in my Sent Mail folder. How can I stop this from happening?
The same thing has happened to me (see screenshot). Turns out if a spammer sets the message’s From: address to the To: address (both of which are you), Gmail doesn’t spam filter it; instead, it files it in Sent Mail automatically even though YOU didn’t send the message.
You can set up a filter to delete all messages with a specific matching To: and From: address, but that means you couldn’t ever send yourself a message to the same address. Anybody else got a better idea? Let us know in the comments or to tips at lifehacker.com.
Posted by Geneva at August 29th, 2006
Posted by Geneva at August 29th, 2006
Web site Tiddlyspot offers users a hosted TiddlyWiki in one of five different flavors (two of which are designed to help you implement GTD).
If you’re not familiar with TiddlyWiki, it’s a dynamic, downloadable wiki that you can run from pretty much anywhere (e.g., the web, your hard drive, or a thumb drive). Tiddlyspot really just offers a simple place where you can access your TiddlyWiki of choice from any internet-connected browser. What’s more, Tiddlyspot lets you download your TiddlyWiki, edit it locally on your hard drive or USB stick, and then upload it back to Tiddlyspot so that you’re synced and up to date (great for those times you want to edit your TiddlyWiki but don’t have internet access). Thanks Jim!
Posted by Geneva at August 29th, 2006
The Miles per Dollar Calculator takes the current gas price and your car’s miles per gallon, then gives you an estimate of the distance you can drive for a dollar (i.e., your miles per dollar).
Of course it’s no revelation that you can calculate how far you can drive for a dollar. That said, calculating your MP$ is an interesting way to measure the approximate cost of any trip you take, and it may make you think twice about the worth and necessity of taking your car with you for every little errand. Knowing your car’s MP$ might help you save money on gas. Thanks Joe!
Posted by Geneva at August 29th, 2006
Greasemonkey script Flickr Photo Compass takes your geotagged photos and maps out up to 8 other nearby photos on a compass.
You can choose to view nearby photos from only one user, or from the whole mighty Flickr pool of geotagged photos. This is a really cool way to browse photos by location, and it gives us a really nice taste of the great ways we can take advantage of Flickr’s newly-integrated geotagging.
