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17 August 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Something I learnt about ABS Plastic

I never knew that ABS Plastic was a conductor until I had a tour of a sign maker’s factory where they plated signs made from ABS Plastic.  Not a very useful fact, but pretty interesting at least for me.

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30 April 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Download YouTube Videos guide

I wrote a quick guide on how to download YouTube videos with nothing but Firefox and a plugin called Ook? Video Ook! I was tired of looking for ways that worked (all of the time), and hopefully it can help others. I am hoping to translate the guide to Japanese, Chinese and French soon. I [...]

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25 April 2007 ~ 0 Comments

PrintAnywhere – Useful app for web workers

Here’s something I stumbled upon which might be useful to other web workers out there.  PrinterAnywhere allows you to print from anywhere to a home or office printer.  I haven’t tried it out but I’m going to because sometimes I want to print off some web pages while in a cafe on wifi.

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19 March 2007 ~ 2 Comments

A way for WordPress plug-in writers to increase donations ten-fold

Here’s an idea that came from following a thread of Alex King‘s ajax powered plug-in donation experiment. I can’t find it to link to at the moment. The problem which a few commenters pointed out is that people don’t want to pay first without knowing if a plugin solves their problem or not. In many [...]

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09 February 2007 ~ 0 Comments

Launchy – “Quicksilver for Windows”

I’ve been meaning to and forgetting to tell everyone about the great program that is Launchy. I hope Josh doesn’t mind but Launchy is like QuickSilver but for the PC. That is to say that it is a keyboard based program launcher. Hit a hotkey combination ( I use Control-Space) and then the first few [...]

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