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