By Dumdum | July 4, 2009
I’ve been indulging quite a bit since I’ve been working. Could be a work related symptom of spending.
We went out today and before that I was in just the “I wanna get out there and have fun mode”.
It’s well spent money anyway. ;p What’s there to work for if you don’t get to enjoy what you sow?
I’ve been reading fairy tail. The story’s good and I’m hooked on it.
1 more month till school starts. Lots of stuff to do including wrapping up stuff at work (quite vexing), plan mods to take (argh.), do hyp cos I’ve been ignoring it too much and play play play!
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You Can’t Always Get What You Want
By Subby | July 2, 2009
- Rolling Stones
Lyrics:
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Firefox 3.5 and 7 extensions I can’t live without
By Subby | July 1, 2009
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In case you haven’t upgraded your Firefox to the latest 3.5, hit your Check for Updates… button. If you don’t have Firefox (*gasp*) grab it now!
Some of the features includes:
- Faster page load
- Faster Javascript
- Smaller memory footprint
- Tabs tearing
- Built-in privacy browsing
- And more…
This is also a good opportunity for me to share some of the extensions I use, 7 of my favourites which I may or may not live without:
Adblock Plus + NoScript
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them.
The best security you can get in a web browser!
Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.
With these two extensions, you basically idiot-proof your system against most threats. And it’d get rid of all the annoying ads, pop-up or otherwise.
DownThemAll!
The first and only download manager/accelerator built inside Firefox!
The description is rather brief but dTa! is a must-get in my opinion. It has other nifty stuff like resume, queuing and mass grabbing of embedded static media and links.
FireGestures
A customizable mouse gestures extension which enables you to execute various commands and user scripts with five types of gestures.
I used to use another extension but it became incompatible with 3.5. I run gestures without trace and only have short-cuts for Next / Previous Tab, New Tab, Reload, Reload without cache and Close Tab.
Greasemonkey + Greasefire
Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript. …
Basically allows you to customise how parts of websites look with bits of Javascript; basically client-side changes to website. Of course, not all of us know what we’re doing, that’s why there’s a huge library of scripts available at UserScripts.
Automatically find Greasemonkey scripts on Userscripts.org (requires Greasemonkey)
Rather self-explanatory. Good helper to Greasemonkey and entirely pointless without it.
Some of the Greasemonkey scripts I’m running:
- Userscripts Updater
- OneManga Helper
- YouTube HD Ultimate
- Facebook Purity or the reason why Facebook is more bearable now
Categories
IETab
IE Tab – an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox…
There’s basically 2 function of this extension. The first is as the author intend, “easily see how your web page displayed in IE”. The second, which I mostly use it for, is to make a web page look sensible to me because there are still some sites which Firefox can’t render properly.
Tabs Open Relative
Tabs Open Relative makes all new tabs open to the right of the current tab, rather than at the far right of the tab bar (optionally this only applies to links).
New tabs in Firefox are typically chucked at the end of tabs list. This extension simply makes new tabs open in a new queue relative to current tab. If words are hard to comprehend, the author has a simple example:
In the case where several new tabs are opened in a row without switching tabs, each subsequent tab will be opened to the right of the previous one, so as to keep them in order.
For example if you have three tabs open, {A}, {B} and {C}, where the current tab is {B}, and then you open three more tabs, {1}, {2} and {3}, you’ll get:
{A} {B} {1} {2} {3} {C}.
UnPlug
UnPlug is an extension which lets you save video and audio which is embedded on a webpage – it’s a video download tool.
This is the only extension in this list that isn’t compatible with 3.5 but seems to work perfectly. Somehow the author doesn’t update at Mozilla’s add-on portal anymore so go to the author’s website to grab the latest version.
Some of the cool features:
- Don’t need to buffer the video
- Doesn’t send you to another URL to download the video
- Tries to locate highest quality video, meaning it’d help you get a HD MP4 video file if it’s available
- Integrates with dTa for higher speed!
Follow the instructions provided here at Lifehacker to circumvent version checking for extensions to use UnPlug. It has a huge USE AT YOUR OWN RISK warning but UnPlug hasn’t exploded on it yet.
Of course I cheated and listed 9 extensions instead of 7 but who cares. Hope this rare non-vlog entry is useful. Do leave a comment if you have any cool extensions to recommend or feedback for any of those in the list.
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Weirdos
By Dumdum | July 1, 2009
So far, there has been more than 1 person that I do not know who tries to add me on fb. Never met them before, never spoke to them, never seen them around and nothing in common with them. The only thing that links us are our mutual friends. But adding others based on mutual friends is such a superficial way to make friends.
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Of Relationship, People and Changes
By Subby | June 30, 2009
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Maria Palko: Marriages don’t fail because couples get bored. They fail because, while they’re dating, people pretend to be the person they think their partner wants and then – well, there’s only so long you can keep that up.
Dr. Allison Cameron: Maybe they are that person when they’re dating, but then they change.
Maria Palko: People thinking their partner will change? That’s another reason marriages fail. People don’t change. At least not in any way that really matters.
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By Dumdum | June 28, 2009
Weekends has always been…really unproductive.
I wish I could start on hyp but there’s this always other I wish I could do something more fun.
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Lady
By Subby | June 27, 2009
- Kenny Rogerst
This song is way before my time but I heard it on Don’t Forget The Lyrics and loved it.
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Hollywood Celebrity Catfight
By Subby | June 27, 2009
Scarlett Johannson vs Megan Fox vs Angelina Jolie
Who wins?
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H1N1 a month in
By Subby | June 26, 2009
So we got our first case a month back, 27th May. How are we doing now?
SINGAPORE: The H1N1 virus continues its spread in Singapore. The Health Ministry confirmed 95 new cases on Thursday, raising the total infected to 315.
[CNA]
Getting almost 100 cases a day, not too good. That’s a third of what they got over 1 month.
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The reports of Transformers 2’s suckiness may have been greatly exaggerated
By Subby | June 25, 2009
Bumblebee versus Some Decepticon
It has giant robots, weapons, explosions and women. Surely most people would be satisfied with this. Somehow Revenge of the Fallen has only obtained 22% freshness at Rotten Tomatoes. If anyone goes into the theatre expecting a thought-provoking plot, witty lines, deep characters and artistic cinematography, then I’d say they’re watching the wrong genre of movies. All the reviews (even the one which said the movie was bad) agreed that the special effects were awesome, so just kick back and enjoy things blowing apart and robots beating each other down.
Not that my opinion means anything but I’d give the movie:
7 / 10 Sand-sucking Gorilla-Constructicon
PS: One thing I don’t understand though, won’t it make more sense to slow-mo the robots fighting instead of Megan Fox running? Sarcasm from me? Maybe.
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