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Show of hands: Who here uses Firefox’s search bar almost exclusively? The search bar is that little search textbox on the upper right hand of the Firefox window. Just choose the search engine, type your search terms, hit enter, and…
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Your ticket to the Gmail Theater
Those engineers at Google are more right-brained than we thought. Below is the geeky way of convincing you to sign up for your own Gmail account. Although this video may not be as homegrown as they would want us to…
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My website is ugly
I wish I could just pull a fantastic layout & color scheme out of the hat. I wish that Joomla has a built-in support for tags. “Joomla is supposed to be a CMS not a blogging tool.” Blah blah, yada…
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Smart Decode – Not quite ready, but seems alright
Smart Communications launched Smart Decode yesterday. Although it’s probably going to be used for a bunch useless promotions (Ringbacks? Seriously?), I just realized that this is actually The Solution to all the senseless typing of VAS (“value added services”) commands.…
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Customize the feed icon in Fireworks
Fireworks users don’t need to feel left out. Or at least when it comes to the feed icon. Previously only available for the Big Snobbish Graphic Editors (Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.), the color of your feed icon can now be customized…
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Bill Gates on the Daily Show
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4suTsIIBWo&w=425&h=350] This is a clip of Bill Gates appearance in the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last January 29, 2007. Gates’ appearances in this show and the Today Show got a lot of publicity. The Man was actually promoting…
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J.K. Rowling announces release date for Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows
Our favorite author, J.K. Rowling, has updated her website & announced the release date of Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows: July 21, 2007. Gracious. That’s this year. What the hell was she thinking in announcing the release date? Doesn’t…
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Removing nags from Yahoo Messenger
My yahoo messenger kept on nagging me to download an update, so I did. But I had the presence of mind not to install it. However, it now nags me all the time to install the update. It’s getting really…
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Shying away from the SEO brouhaha
Yes, I do get your emails — questions about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), asking for advice, tips, etc. Some have heard of the work I did, while some simply analyzed my rankings in Google. However, because of the sudden brouhaha…
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Computing for input VAT
The expanded value added tax increased the vat rate from 10% to 12%. When computing for your input VAT, the net amount is now divided by 1.12, instead of 1.10. The formula for getting the gross amount is derived below:…