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Removing the Quiz stories from the Facebook homepage

Posted by Bramus! on Mar 22 2009 in
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Although it has some quirks such as some missing links, the new Facebook design works for me. One of the things I quite dig is the new homepage, showing me what’s going on in my friends circle. However, there’s a problem with that live-lifestream … some of the info contained (mainly those darn quizzes) is just irrelevant to me. Therefore I’ve knocked up a GreaseMonkey script which removes the quizzes from the Facebook homepage.

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Facebook, The Missing Links

Posted by Bramus! on Mar 19 2009 in
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The new Facebook design rocks. Only problem is that I (along with many others) couldn’t find some pages back. Here’s a list of those I did find back (long live the browser cache!) …
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Fitts’ Law vs. Apple on Windows, continued, again

Posted by Bramus! on Mar 19 2009 in
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Two years ago I wrote about Fitts’ Law vs. iTunes/Safari describing the lack of the upperleft and upperright pixels in the Windows distribution of Safari. The lack of those two pixels resulted in some really odd behavior (the upper right corner for example didn’t trigger the close button, as you clicked *through it*, hitting the close button of the application underneath). Luckely Apple soon set things straight and fixed the issues mentioned.

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Introducing Twitpickr

Posted by Bramus! on Mar 16 2009 in
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The past few weeks former classmate and friend Stijn (@wwdj) has been working on Twitpickr, a webapp which lets you easily upload your twitpic pics to your Flickr account. As of yesterday, Twitpickr has gone live to all twitterati

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Gecko 1.9.3 pre-release: Out-of-Process Plugins
Great news from the Mozilla/Gecko team: “The main feature of this release is out-of-process plugins: on Windows and Linux, plugins such as Flash and Silverlight run in a separate process from the browser. If a plugin crashes it will not crash the browser, and unresponsive plugins are automatically restarted. (Note that we are working on this for Macs as well, but is not part of this preview release.) We are making this preview release available so that it can get wider testing and generate feedback.” — Looking forward to see this merged within Firefox (Planned for 3.7 (early 2011) if I’m not mistaken) / Now that I’m looking forward: Jägermonkey/Jaegermonkey looks promising too :-)
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Halloween in Harlem
“Ever wonder what Halloween would be like if you were a kid growing up in New York City?&rdquio; — Great set!
[ February 19th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

TotalFinder 0.7
A new version of TotalFinder has been released. This version gives us dual-pane support along with some nice tweaks (such as tabs now actually being Chrome-alike tabs)
[ February 3rd, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

Plupload
The developers of TinyMCE bring us Plupload, a highly usable upload handler: “Using Plupload one can upload multiple files using Google Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or HTML5. Flexible configuration allows you to choose all or only some of these upload “runtimes” with fallback in the order you specify.”
[ February 3rd, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

HipHop for PHP (formerly known as HyperPHP)
As hinted before, in an interview with a Facebook employee: “HipHop for PHP isn’t technically a compiler itself. Rather it is a source code transformer. HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it. HipHop executes the source code in a semantically equivalent manner and sacrifices some rarely used features — such as eval() — in exchange for improved performance. HipHop includes a code transformer, a reimplementation of PHP’s runtime system, and a rewrite of many common PHP Extensions to take advantage of these performance optimizations.” — Too bad they didn’t keep the name HyperPHP though …
[ February 2nd, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

How to be a full time Tech Blogger
Great chart by @steffest: How to be a full time Tech Blogger
[ January 27th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

TinyMCE 3.3 and jQuery
With the release of TinyMCE 3.3b1 a lot of jQuery Goodness such as being able to write/do stuff like tinymce.get(0).$('body').html('Hello world'); and $('#textareaid').tinymce().selection.setContent('Hello world!'); has landed upon us! Wow!
[ January 26th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

NetExport Firebug Extension
NetExport is a very neat Firebug Extension created by Jan Odvarko, one of the main Firebug contributors. Basically this extension lets you save traces from Firebugs Net Panel into an HTTP Archive (HAR file). The true beauty of this plugin is seen when passing such a created archive into the HTTP Archive Viewer. Be sure to try some of the examples, and be amazed!
[ January 25th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

Firebug 1.5
In case Firefox didn’t notify you yet: Firebug 1.5 is out!
[ January 19th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

jQuery 1.4
Yesterday, jQuery 1.4 was released. Be sure to check the updated jQuery API Browser, to read The 15 New Features you Must Know and to keep an eye an jquery14 the coming 2 weeks. Of course the jQuery Docs still are a must have resource.
[ January 15th, 2010 - 0 comment(s) ]

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