Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Bathroom touching up with acid tiles

Fun Forever's "Acid morning starts in bathroom" has some nice tiles...

Something to consider next time the batch is getting a touching up. :)

Here's some examples, more can be found at source:

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Pretty Good Privacy - for free

◄http://digg.com/software/FireGPG_Firefox_plugin_for_GPG_in_Gmail krever at du har http://www.gpg4win.org/ (som er et underprosjekt av http://www.gnupg.org/ ) 2:08:01 PM◄linken til nedlastingen fra gpg4win virker ikke, så hent fra f.eks: http://files5.majorgeeks.com/files/42240455439aa23182bf604e3b202915/mail/gpg4win-1.0.9.exe 2:09:05 PM◄med firefox-addonen får du kryptering rett i gmail (og egentlig alle sider)

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Firefox tweaking

I haven't used Firefox for more than a week, but allready I'm starting to like it, and I've done some tweaking to it :) Here's some of the stuff I've collected to improve Firefox the past week: Addons:

about:config user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("layout.word_select.eat_space_to_next_word",true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true);
user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8);
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536);

Note: Firefox is allocated 4096 KB of memory by default and in this configuration we give it roughly 65MB as denoted by the last line. This can be changed according to what is used.

about:config tweaks ripped from CodeBetter. To get more "screen space", I have moved the adress field and search box next to the menu (just right of Help). To do this, right click anywhere on the toolbar and drag the fields where you want them. Also, I removed the bookmarks toolbar by going to View - Toolbars and deselecting it. Since I'm using the del.icio.us addon, I'm not showing any addons, but I'm displaying my favorite tags next to the buttons (back, next, home, refresh etc). Finally I used the Customize menu (right click on toolbars) to select small icons. This all together gives me a cleaner browser with more space for the webpages instead of toolbars.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Essential tools for living online

I'm putting together a list of the most usefull online tools that I use daily. They're all listed on del.icio.us/hjornevik, but I wanted to get them posted here as well.
The tools I use most often are the ones that keep track of my rss feeds and bookmarks, and of course my web based email. With three computers to switch between (both at work and home), I realised I wanted to switch to an internetbased interface, for simplicity.

So, I wanted to collect as many things in one place, to avoid having to surf all around to do my daily "tasks". I finally fell for googles personalised homepage, and added to it a few tabs with different topics:
Main contains gmail, google reader, a date&time gadget, as well as a Reuters news.
News, which contains my selection of newspapers (mostly norwegian, but also some other).
Notes, which isn't the best name, but it contains Google Notebook and a del.icio.us-gadget displaying my bookmarks on del.icio.us, and also a Wikipedia search and a English-Spanish translator.
Bored is my selection of silly stuff, meaning PacMan, Chess, Sudoku and HangMan :)
(I'll link to those gadgets sometime later)

Next, there's the tools that I use for keeping track of my workout. Unfortunatly I was injured for more than a month so my runlog looks a bit silly, but still it's a very usefull tool...
Combined with mapmyrun, the runner's need for logging is complete.

I am also trying to learn spanish, and to do that I firstmost use the podcasts from CoffeebreakSpanish. The main podcast is free, but if you buy a premium membership you can download additional podcasts and a pdf-guide with transcriptions and vocabulary.
I also try to learn an additional word each day, and for that I use about's Spanish Word of the Day. I used to subscribe to this on email, but I felt like it was too much in my mailbox, so I've changed to check on the web instead.

In addition to this, I have some Firefox addons which helps alot, but I'll write about my Firefox tweakings in another post...

Finally though, I'd like to mention WiFi Directory & Hotspot Finder for Wireless Access Locations. This is a great site for finding a place to connect to the internet with your laptop. Only drawback is that you have to be online to use it ;)