Category Archives: Computing

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Bubbles for desktop-izing web apps

I like Bubbles. I was just thinking yesterday about writing such a thing and today I discover some people already have, and pretty well.

I’m writing .bblbox files for the webapps I used, but I’m stopped up by a weird element of their API.

Why not allow elements within the node of the .bblbox? Requiring the creation and hosting of a separate file is a bit of a PITA.

Bubbles people, please make the element in .bblbox work the same as in shortcuts.xml. In the case of profiling a separate shortcuts file, a element could be used.

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using JBlogEditor

JBlogEditor just added a built-in Flickr uploader (uploadr?) so I thought I’d give it a try. Pretty nice. Go Eclipse RCP.

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Forwarding attachments in Thunderbird

This bug was reported 1999-03-17. It was the 3901th bug ever reported in Bugzilla. Today it was finally resolved, 200449 bugs and 6 years later.

I can only pray that this makes it into the Thunderbird 1.5 release. I’m pretty sure it won’t.

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No need for a name ad

THE SEARCH TERM CALLED YOU

“I knew that when people Googled me, what came up was a lot of
random stuff, and I wanted to control what was found about me.
And O.K., I also loved to see how manytimes I got Googled in a
week.”

Entrepreneur Mark Pincus, on buying his name as an ad on
Google, The New York Times, 22 January 2004

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/circuits/22sear.html

For better or worse, I’m perfectly unique.

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Microsoft fanboys?

Looking at Amazon reviews for StarOffice 7, I came across this one:

Save your money October 29, 2003

If you need a Office Suite that will increase your productivity and help you then you need Microsoft Office 2003. Star Office is slow, buggy and the user interface leaves a lot to be desired.

You will be much happier using MS Office 2003, the Office suite is the best on the market and I have used them all.

Then I clicked to see what other reviews this guy wrote. He’s a gushing Microsoft fanboy.

I can understand reluctant concetion to Microsoft’s accomplish, but not passionate praise. Weird.

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Résumé spam?!

Did this really just happen? Did I just get spammed with a résumé? Is Imran Owais Kazmi a real person who thinks he can get a job through bulk mailing?
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News aggregators

… are so cool.

I prefer SharpReader, which just hit version 0.9.2

But why must it use 40MB of RAM?

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