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Restore Control: Stop Firefox from loading tabs at startup

preston — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:51:08 +0000

If you’re like me, you set up your Firefox to restore tabs from your previous session. (It has this option in-built, but I prefer to also use the Session Manager add-on.) If you’re also like me, you tend to keep a large number of tabs going. Firefox doesn’t handle this very well, especially at startup. Things can be especially ugly if you’re on any kind of compromised connection like free wifi.

Solution: get the add-on called Restore Control. It allows you to disable the auto-load of tabs on startup. This is pretty genius because it makes Firefox restart and respond wicked quickly in the aforementioned circumstances. Be sure to check out the settings – the one tweak I required was for the width of unloaded tabs: changed it to No different than loaded tabs. This let it play nice with my Tabkit sidebar tab list. I also trimmed the space following the * in the ‘prepend unloaded tabs with’ option.

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Edit: my current preferred Load Tabs Progressively

Man vs. Lion Staredown

preston — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:26:56 +0000

“Curiosity killed the cat” was almost flipped in this case. This guy must have some serious clankers.

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I’m pretty sure this urinal is taking a 4-D pic of my junk

preston — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 19:40:43 +0000

And this one of my corn hole:

This is all a little much. Why don’t they simply employ that motion sensing tech used in the paper towel dispensers? The kind where you wave your hand 3″ away and it fires.

And I especially hate the motion-sensed dumper flushers. I go to wipe, and woooosh. Is kicking a lever such a big deal?

I’ll tell you what is a big deal: trying stall doors only to find them locked. If I were king, I’d make it so all unlocked stall doors fall 2″ ajar. This would accomplish twofold: a) You’d never do a “sucker’s pull” again, b) you’d know for sure whether you’re alone in there.

When’s the last time you double clicked this icon?

preston — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 17:14:25 +0000

That’s right, never. Good thing Adobe puts that icon on half a billion desktops.

I also recommend paying attention during the upgrade and every [frequent] security update to uncheck the Google Toolbar or whatever other bloatware they’ve opted to try and inject your system with.

If you’re ready to break free of the tyranny, I’ve heard that Foxit Reader does it all a little less offensively.

Stevie Wonder rocking Sesame Street 38 years ago

preston — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:20:52 +0000

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I can’t believe I haven’t posted this^ before, it is one of my favorite things.

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Absolutely destroys the place.

Yes on 19

preston — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 05:02:53 +0000

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The Delta pre-flight movie lady is pretty foxy

preston — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 04:38:09 +0000

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Actually I have a slightly bigger crush on the United chic (0:24), but the Delta movie is just 10x better overall.

Alt-d highlights your URL bar

preston — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:25:00 +0000

You’re welcome!

Portal is free, for PC and Mac, until May 24th

preston — Thu, 20 May 2010 18:42:21 +0000

Get it while you can, even if you don’t currently have the computer to run it. It will be ‘bought’ into your Steam account and you can play it in the future if nothing else. If you’re not familiar with Portal, conk yourself on the head, then be aware that it’s made by Valve, the makers of the Half-Life universe. If you’re not familiar with Steam, it’s a digital game delivery service, replacing physical media, and most all games are available via it nowadays. It also recently was released for Macs, and I’ve heard rumor of a pending Linux version as well.

Portal is a short little FPS game, maybe 4 hours. But there are no enemies really; you are given a 2way portal gun and tasked with figuring your way out of various rooms and puzzles. It’s WELL worth the price, so go get it [if you don't already have it]!

http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

Update: long gone it’s back up to $20

Food, Inc. coming to PBS April 21

preston — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 17:03:06 +0000

Everyone should see this film. Take the red pill, and pass it to everyone you know.

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Standing cat

preston — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:10:40 +0000

‘Nuff said. I’ve had this ditty stuck in my head for about 3 days now, thanks Japan.

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…nevermind

preston — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:27:23 +0000

Nevermind is not actually a word of course, but it’s very commonly used. Is this due to Nirvana, or would it occur if they never existed? Are people who use nevermind consciously aware of their misspelling? I am.

The semicolon is way underused

preston — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:26:53 +0000

I declare 2010 the year of the semicolon. You heard me. Everyone needs to use them more. I’ve been making a casual effort to use them wherever possible. It’s clearly one of the better punctuations that exists. I mean look at it; it’s like a comma and a period rolled into one. It’s a wink, it’s a vampiric pierce. It lets you tell a story with one sentence. It eschews supposedly beauty-defining symmetry with a rebel yell. Now get using them.

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto 1 and 2 are free to download

preston — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:22:19 +0000

The classics. “These games, each available free of charge and optimized for play on modern PCs, offer a nostalgic trip back in time to the early days of the Rockstar legacy.”

Rockstar Classics – Free Downloads

Search any site with Google

preston — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:46:06 +0000

Most sites have search features nowadays. Sometimes they’re decent, sometimes they’re terrible. Sometimes they give you advanced sorting options, sometimes they don’t. Forget all that roulette and let the master do it: search any site with your warm and fuzzy Google. For example the following query narrows results to only those from voyhere.com:

search terms site:voyhere.com

Note the use of the top- and second-level domains only; don’t use any www or anything. Now you can employ/enjoy all of Google’s search refinements. If Google’s not your flavor I’m sure yours has the equivalent.