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November 27, 2011
It was another day of nerd games for Dan, so I did some grocery shopping, watched some football, and then made our lunches for the week - salad in a jar, clearly the best idea ever. (It was not mine - totally inspired by this recipe, via lifehacker.) This is now the second batch of these I've made, and it's the BEST. And prettiest. (more info on the blog.)
Delicious is great. I use it but have forgotten a helpful short-cut to tagging stories you read in your RSS feed. After reading a story in its entirety, I have been clicking through to the story first...and then tagging it.
Tip: right-click the link and in Firefox you can do it right from your reader (and from any hypertext link for that matter.)
My iPhone apps were starting to get out of control, so I googled methods for organizing them. I found two articles that inspired me to do the following:
-Make a blank home screen
-Create a Faves folder on the dock
-Organize other apps into folders titled with action verbs
-Start those folders on page 2 of the home screen
It's not a flawless system -- Photo isn't an action verb, and Photograph is too long -- but so far it does seem very tidy and intuitive.
Articles:
articles.businessinsider.com/2010-08-05/tech/30031545_1_i...
lifehacker.com/5882749/organize-your-apps-by-action-inste...
Copyright 2012 Patia Stephens
My newly customized desktop, making use of Windows Explorer replacement "Emerge", plus a customized Samurai config file and RocketDock.
The original Samurize config was Vipez2 by Whiteknight, which I pretty much trimmed down to my liking/need.
The wallpaper comes from DeviantArt, called "The Rise of a Planet", by =taenaron
The Emerge Desktop taskbars were completely configured by me.
Not shown: Launchy.
I used a fibre paint stripping disk to take of the surface rust and foam over spray. Then a 80 grit flap disk and 1/8" grinding flat disk to get tight corners and pitted rust. Everything was then cleaned up with a 120 flap disk.
So I'm a bit data-obsessed... since the first day I moved to DC I've been tracking a whole slew of varying traits, each of which roughly fits into the five traits seen at right.
Each is equalised to a score out of ten. Unfortunately this means my Exercise rating gets drawfed between my day-to-day lethargy intermixed with here-and-there activity... versus my crazed intensive month-long backpacking trips where I rack up several dozen miles a day. So Exercise gets pushed pretty far down by my readily-obvious vacations.
These bold lines are moving average trendlines, so the far-right drops off as a result of the moving average picking up zeroes beyond the current date.
So yeah... that's basically the gist of it.
I have searched everywhere for a suitable Moleskine-style iPad case over the past few months. Lifehacker ran this a couple of weeks ago and I finally got around to making one. It's wonderful.
Behold, my Greasemonkey!
I constantly get flickr mail from people wanting to know how to do certain things on flickr. The most popular being the buddy-icon-reply function. Prepare yourselves, n00b-cakes, for the 5-step procedure that will make your life on Flickr much more fun and much more easy (and hopefully make it easier for those of us who get to field this question a lot).
Step 1: Get Firefox
If you've got it, great. If you don't, get it. Firefox is just like IE, but 10 times better, safer, and more fun. There are a million Firefox Add-On's floating around the internet that can make your life easier. Greasemonkey is one of them. You can download the latest version of Firefox here. Stop using anything else.
Step 2: Download Greasemonkey
Greasemonkey is a Firefox Add-On that allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. Translation: Lots of other Add-Ons are built off of Greasemonkey. You need this. Open up your new version of Firefox and then get Greasemonkey here.
Step 3: Get Better Flickr
This Add-On gives you wonderful little buttons just above your comment field that makes it easy to bold, italicize and even add links. It also adds buttons next to people's comments that allow you to add their icon in your reply-box with a single click. Get it here.
Step 4: Update Better Flickr
Flickr has changed a bit of their coding. This has rendered the 0.3 version of Better Flickr useless in certain regards. The update has corrected whatever issues this has brought about. You can get the update here.
Step 5: Get "Add Referrer Into Comments 1.8"
This little tool automatically places a note at the bottom of your comments that lets people know where you've spotted their picture. As more and more people use this tool, it becomes easier for Flickr-ites to streamline their exposure techniques. (In this case I'm using the term "exposure" in regards to marketing, not photography) You can get this tool here.
Viola! You're now cruising Flickr on Firefox using the most updated version of Better Flicker, powered by Greasemonkey while automatically letting everybody know where you're coming from.
Enjoy.
We have got to find a solution for Julien's suits and dress shirts. Still working on this one...
The ottoman belongs in the living room but we lack the space for it. For now, it serves as a storage table.
On the left is my vanity and a sore in my side because I have too many products and too little surface space. Must incorporate a shelving unit of some sort to help keep the clutter to a minimum.
Check out the floorplan here.
Found in Apartment Therapy Set
I've hit day 50, w00t!
This is a collage of all the photos for the prior 49 days, created using Shape Collage, a free app that I found out about through Lifehacker. I was running a bit late on getting this, so the photo isn't really the best, but in this case, it was the concept that mattered to me.
This is the first screen of Microsoft Office Accounting Express 2007. Free download www.ideawins.com/ (via Lifehacker)
I like that you can import from Quickbooks and MS Money. I'll look at it in detail in the next few days. Looks easy to use at first glance.
Picked one of these GRID-IT organizers up today thanks to this LifeHacker post.
These are all things that were floating around in my bag anyway, but it's nice to finally have a way to organize them!
This is my desktop as of September 2008. It's not that much to look at, but it constrasts colors decently while looking nice.
- SLANXP 2.0
The first thing that your eyes look for on white is black, so I used SlanXP 2.0 for my theme. My one qualm with theme is it's color for the background of applications that use the native theme (Firefox, the shell...)
- SNACKR
Directly below the taskbar is Snackr which is an RSS feed reader based off of Adobe Air. It's configured to Engadget's feed as well as the full feed for Lifehacker. My settings place the speed near the middle of the slider, which works rather well for me.
- THE DOCK
The next thing that gets your attention is the wonderful "Mac OS X Dock Leopard for Windows". Not only does it look pretty, it actively reflects icons (and soon windows if the developers word is worth anything), features a stack docklet natively and serves as a hub for all my most actively used icons and folders.
The first icon that you see is a stack for my school folder, which contains all my completed (and incomplete) essays and notes. The second icon is a stack of all of the eBooks that I have on this computer.
The middle is my little gateway to the six most useful applications on my PC. These consist of Adobe products which you should recognize. Bridge, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, Photoshop Lightroom 2.
The right side of my dock is all of my creative pursuits. The first being my Creative Works folder which contains subfolders filled with images. The second being my Websites folder which contains all of my endeavors into the web field (PHP, XHTML, XML, JS, etc) and the stack is configured to sort them by the last modified folder, allowing me to find the project I've been working on extremely fast.
- THE DESKTOP
Is just a white background with an inner shadow at random properties that look somewhat appealing to the eye at the time. If you like it, and ask politely; I could give you the raw desktop.
This is a stand I was inspired to make following articles from Lifehacker and Makezine.
The wood was free as a favour from some friends at a local hardware store, the legs cost £1.49 each and I used a pack of screws lying around. I love it!
Due to the weight and ability to create vibrations the computer and speakers get a better treatment. A felt backer gives distance to the floor, a layer of silicone dampens sound and closed cell foam reduces vibration and makes the granite stable.
I've been amazed how much this single tip has made shaving so much more pleasurable. After each
shave I shake dry my razor and submerge it in a small amount of castor
oil. The idea is the mineral build up and oxidation will be slowed
down by the oil barrier. I've noticed my shaves have been much closer
allowing me to shaving every 36 hours instead of every 24 hours. There
is also less irritation and cutting. I think in part do to the oil
that remains on the blade going onto my face thus reducing friction.
The blades themselves seem to last longer and stay sharp too. I've not
had to change my $0.17 blade for the last week.
Thanks to Phil for giving me the factory to set up this paint booth using vapour barrier and space heaters to control the conditions.
Windows Vista Deuce Skin
Object Dock +
Rockwell Icon Set (created by me based of Basic5 Icon set)
Miranda IM
Pidgin (Aero Ion theme)
Rain Meter : Modified Ten Foot Hud (Rockwell Font)
Launchy (Dank Theme)
Outlook Mini Mail Widget
Informer Widget
I just have the free Flickr so this is a small image. Bigger size can be seen here:
I enabled the feature of ssh and remote management of ssh so that i can manage my wireless route from anywhere via SSH!
My first attempt with Geek Tool. In the top right-hand corner, is Adium with the HUD theme. Also up in the menu bar is in iStats menu.
I also made a custom Growl style to match the colors of the theme.
GeekTool code here: pastebin.com/FF6HKLfE
The photo is one that I took in Colton, NY.
I am never buying green onions again. Maybe a week ago, I trimmed them down to just above the plastic binding.
Amazing.