tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33550011911966714322024-02-19T03:57:39.304-05:00*nulljcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-22742669833979473672012-04-17T11:26:00.004-04:002012-04-17T11:26:45.827-04:00Trouble with FlashI’ve been having problems with instability in Firefox, especially
when the PC restarts and I reopen all of my tabs. Typically, Firefox has
trouble restarting and sometimes will repeatedly crash. If I look at
the Task Manager, Firefox’s memory climbs up and up until it hits 1.6 GB
and then whammo.<br />
<br />
Today, I happened to have my headphones plugged in when I restarted
(at work, so no speakers) and heard a cacaphony of voices all at once. I
realized that the problem was probably Flash videos in all of those
tabs, all auto-playing and starting up at the same time.<br />
<br />
So, now I have FlashBlock for Firefox on my PC. Restarted Firefox and
it was quick and painless and quiet (and most importantly, crash-free).
I already use a Flash blocker at home on my Mac, but had not thought of
using one here.<br />
<br />
Duh.jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-30661132883765798632012-03-19T13:37:00.001-04:002012-03-19T13:37:25.932-04:00Square, Intuit and PayPal - oh my!Well, well, well. I see that both <a href="http://gopayment.com/">Intuit</a> and <a href="https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/credit-card-reader">Paypal</a> are now getting into mobile payments with <a href="https://squareup.com/">Square</a>. I wonder how long it will take for someone to build a credit card reader that not only processes the card, but also logs the details of the card to the smartphone (for later use); put a nice MasterCard or Bank of America logo on it and you'll fool most people. Or maybe the right question isn't when, but who's already doing it?jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-42424493682393611672012-03-09T17:03:00.003-05:002012-03-09T17:04:30.256-05:00I'm backI still update the tumblr blog, but will be here mostly.jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-56301642188202481342011-01-16T11:45:00.001-05:002011-01-16T11:46:47.084-05:00This blog has movedto <a href="http://jcg1013.tumblr.com/">http://jcg1013.tumblr.com/</a>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-61931428225892329062010-06-29T11:44:00.002-04:002010-06-29T11:57:32.016-04:00iPhone 4 or iOS 4 featuresThree features that I find invaluable - folders, multitasking bar, and strong password. If you don't know how to use them, here is a quickie ...<br /><br />To create folders, just go into screen edit mode (hold an icon until everything vibrates) and move an icon over another one - they will both be put into a folder. The OS will give the folder a name, but you can rename it. Each folder can hold up to 12 apps, but only the first 9 icons will show. You can remove an app from a folder by dragging it out of the folder. I've heard that some people have put almost everything into folders so they only have one or two home pages.<br /><br />I had to look up how to get to the multitasking bar -- double-click the home button. A new row of icons will show up at the bottom of the screen. These are your most recently used or currently running apps. Since most apps have not been recompiled to make them pause when you navigate away from them, when you click on an icon, that app will start up just as if you had clicked its icon on one of the home pages. When an app gets recompiled to make it multi-tasking-aware, then when you navigate away from it, it will pause, and then when you click on its icon in the multitasking bar, it will resume right where you left off.<br /><br />To remove an icon from the list (to to kill it if it is paused), just hold down one of the icons until they all start to shake and click the minus sign to remove it. You can swipe to the left to see more icons. If you are at the beginning of the list and swipe to the RIGHT, you will get quick access to your ipod controls PLUS the hidden orientation lock button.<br /><br />Finally, if you want more than a four digit passcode, go into Settings, General, Passcode Lock and turn "Simple Passcode" to OFF. It's a bit of a pain, but some of you may want this.jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-85739865592488288882010-06-28T17:41:00.004-04:002010-06-28T18:26:48.001-04:00Multiple Home PagesHere is a little javascript trick [if you use NoScript, click <a href="#NoScript">here</a> to skip to that section].<br /><br />I have been using <a href="http://isc.sans.edu">isc.sans.edu</a> as my home page for some time. But today, I wanted my home page to alternate between isc.sans.edu and also <a href="http://infosecevents.net">infosecevents.net</a>. So, I used a little javascript:<br /><br />Open Tools / Options, paste this into "Home Page" and click OK:<br /><br />javascript:var d=new Date();var h=d.getMinutes()%2;if(h==0){document.location="http://infosecevents.net"}else{document.location="http://isc.sans.edu"}<br /><br />[It should paste as a single line - if not, you may have to copy/paste in pieces]<br /><br />Now, click on the home page button in your toolbar and see what comes up. Then wait a minute and do it again. Cool, eh?<br /><br />There are some tweaks you can make:<br />1. if you want the home page to change less often, you can use getHours instead of getMinutes (or go the other way with getSeconds).<br />2. if you want to alternate between more than two pages, try something like this (i tried a switch/case instead of the if/else, but it didn't work):<br /><br />javascript:var d=new Date();var h=d.getMinutes()%4;if(h==0){document.location="http://infosecevents.net"}else if(h==1){document.location="http://isc.sans.edu"}else if (h==2){document.location="http://iamneurotic.com/"}else if (h==3){document.location="http://starnull.blogspot.com/"}<br /><br /><a name="NoScript">The NoScript section</a><br><br />Obviously, none of this is going to work if you have disallowed javascript (say, if you're using NoScript in Firefox) on the page you're on (which includes the page that opens in a new window). In that case, you can put the javascript into a local file (say, on your desktop) -- this is the equivalent of the previous example:<br /><br /><xxript><br />var d=new Date();<br />var h=d.getMinutes()%4;<br />if (h==0) {document.location="http://infosecevents.net"} else<br />if (h==1) {document.location="http://isc.sans.edu"} else<br />if (h==2) {document.location="http://iamneurotic.com/"} else<br />if (h==3) {document.location="http://starnull.blogspot.com/"}<br /></script><br /><br />Call it something.htm and double-click it. When Firefox opens, it will not recognize the xxript on the first line, but that is a good thing. Open Tools / Options and click "Use Current Page" under "Home Page" and click OK. Now, go back to your file and change "xxript" on the first line to "script".<br /><br />Test it by starting up Firefox the way you normally do (desktop icon, quick launch icon, whatever). Ta da. The home page comes up. The only caveat here is that if you're on a page on which you have disallowed javascript and you try to hit the home page button, nothing will happen.<br /><br />Have fun!jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-5068732413227634162010-06-13T23:49:00.000-04:002010-06-13T23:50:12.360-04:00On the BS of Positive ThinkingBarbara Ehrenreich on the BS of "positive thinking" - neat video clip: <a href="http://ping.fm/dO0yK">http://ping.fm/dO0yK</a>. her book "Bright-Sided" is fantastic. (via Twitter <a href="http://www.twitter.com/hypatiadotca">@hypatiadotca</a>)jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-47182374189547383572010-06-11T09:36:00.006-04:002010-06-11T10:59:52.474-04:00How does Fortinet filter web sites ?I don't know about you, but I have gotten a lot of really bad results from Fortinet's web filtering service; the most recent is in the picture below. The link mentioned goes to a web site that offers the Google Books Downloader app for Macintosh. Even looking at the upper level domain (from a machine outside the reach of Fortinet), there is nothing there that is even remotely racy, much less pornographic.<br /><br />I wonder who they hire to look at these web sites and rate them? Maybe this site happened to fall into the hands of a Google-hater or Mac-hater for review? I don't know, but my own experience tells me that I were ever in the position to buy such a service, Fortinet would be at the bottom of the list.<br /><br />One could argue that maybe the web site was hacked and showed porno for a short time and that's why it was rated the way it was. I would counter back that Fortinet has a responsibility not to slander employees of the organizations that use their service. They are a security firm and could, for porno and other "bad" tags, send the web site to a level 2 person before applying the tag. The analysis would go something like this:<br /><br />1. Did the web site ever have a different rating? If so, it probably deserves a rating like "Hacked" which means that it temporarily goes somewhere "bad" but the person who went there did not intend to go somewhere "bad".<br /><br />2. If they never saw the web site before, then can they infer anything by looking at the forensics (whois, archive.org, does anyone link to them, etc).<br /><br />3. Then, if they do say it was "Hacked", come back regularly to see if the rating should change.<br /><br />This lets the organization block "hacked" web sites, while not impugning the reputation of those who innocently go to those web sites.<br /><br />Seems like something a responsible organization would do. I hope that Fortinet would consider such a course of action for themselves since I believe that they want to do the right thing (proactively try to apply responsible ratings) vs doing the make-a-quick-buck thing (report whatever they want and let the users tell them when they make a mistake, or hide behind "the organization is not supposed to take the ratings literally and should do their own investigation" - like that ever happens).<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_b2K4nr0cbtpd0Byl2jw7gwRMDCbBEaO-nVWhvk2utD-cXUrzLdov5RKqrJxY5d42JXDlu2gszsabWqM4q1yOfW9ctmSnxCkBe0fJUcd9fD8A0fVlmpbGxtrJhxbc16OpJMCHYVsT1Io/s1600/fortinet_0611.PNG"><img style="float: center; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 146px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_b2K4nr0cbtpd0Byl2jw7gwRMDCbBEaO-nVWhvk2utD-cXUrzLdov5RKqrJxY5d42JXDlu2gszsabWqM4q1yOfW9ctmSnxCkBe0fJUcd9fD8A0fVlmpbGxtrJhxbc16OpJMCHYVsT1Io/s320/fortinet_0611.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5481509800084084498" border="0" /></a><br /><p><br /><br />Update: after reporting the problem to Fortinet, they corrected it in less than an hour. That normally does not happen this quickly when I report errors to them, so maybe it was the fact that I publicly tweeted it to their Twitter address @Fortinet that got them to act quickly (hint for others out there who have rating problems). In either case, I appreciate their quick action, but wish that they acted, in my opinion, in a more responsible manner to start with.jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-13824949934472748122010-06-01T23:52:00.007-04:002010-06-11T21:57:07.902-04:00Moved passwords to 1PasswordFinally. I've wanted to do that forever. I moved 333 passwords from work and 530 passwords from home (both Firefox/PC) to 1Password/Mac. How to:<br /><br />install secure delete on PC (heidi.ie) and Mac - you will be exporting your passwords to the disk (hard drive, USB, whatever), so you want to be able to securely erase the part of the disk that those files were on. i use Eraser (free) on Windows ( <a href="http://eraser.heidi.ie/">here</a> ) and, of course, Secure Empty Trash is part of Leopard on the Mac.<br /><br />export passwords out of Firefox - there is a free add-on for Firefox ( <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2848/">here</a> ) that allows you to export your passwords to a file. after you install it, go to tools / options / import/export / export. i chose to export as a csv file instead of xml, but either one works.<br /><br />merge the password files - i brought my work password file home and used the Import feature to merge the two password files ( tools / options / import/export / import ).<br /><br />check your errors - you will get a number of errors. most of them are duplicates and some are other types of problems. make note of all of them, especially the "duplicates" since they may not be duplicates. huh? well, the web site and username will be the same, but the password may be different -- maybe you changed the password and only accessed it AFTER the change at one location. you will have to check the csv or xml file to see what the two passwords are, and if different, fix things. the easiest way to do that is to log in again, using what firefox thinks is the right password and if it does not work, then use the one from the imported file.<br /><br />Move profile to Mac<br />Fix 1Password (false start) - Firefox setting<br />Import into 1Password<br />Backup<br />Copy keychain to USB<br />Copy into PC area<br />Bring up 1Password<br />put iPhone, iPad, Mac on same wireless<br />Bring up iPhone 1Password<br />turn on wireless sync<br />follow instructions for Mac<br />repeat for iPad<br /><br />want:<br />all - option to leave userid out of title (and only in details) in GUI (i know why its needed in the dialog)<br />iPad - option to sort by domain<br />PC - auto fill without Ctrl-\<br /><br />next steps:<br />go back to Firefox and clean out profile (dups due to formName, fields)<br />reimport<br /><br />tests:<br />powweb<br /><br />pictures:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBwoAWm4FcZcS907u14ZmrBrJBsRBjN936RnY9fhyGiCcrucrgP3m5DUyaHjZmhCj7gBzdFwphNyIOxmAcqB73G4FM1YClPOVnJBqTpdcpzFooWoVOSJCrcY3O_iVhNq4-TRONMCM8YJg/s1600/1P+-+powweb.PNG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 316px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBwoAWm4FcZcS907u14ZmrBrJBsRBjN936RnY9fhyGiCcrucrgP3m5DUyaHjZmhCj7gBzdFwphNyIOxmAcqB73G4FM1YClPOVnJBqTpdcpzFooWoVOSJCrcY3O_iVhNq4-TRONMCM8YJg/s320/1P+-+powweb.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478160382157600914" border="0" /></a>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-22390566896504819262010-06-01T00:45:00.001-04:002010-06-01T00:46:58.556-04:00Police Offer Home Security TipsClick <a href="http://www.homesecuritysource.com/blogs/police-offer-home-security-tips.aspx">here</a> (via <a href="http://twitter.com/RobertSiciliano">@RobertSiciliano</a>).jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-7068871717945479292010-06-01T00:43:00.000-04:002010-06-01T00:44:00.097-04:00What your email address says about your computer skillspicture is <a href="http://theoatmeal.com/comics/email_address">here</a>.jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-34434378264970121432010-05-31T12:12:00.002-04:002010-05-31T12:17:30.844-04:00Wireless settingsMade the jump recently to add wireless to my home network (vs all-wired) due to the arrival of my iPad. Conventional wisdom (SSID) got in the way though.<br /><br />All you need to set is a LONG & STRONG WPA2 (AES) password. I was telling the router not to broadcast the SSID, but that does little to stop hackers and makes the network almost unusable -- devices (iPad/iPhone) can't see the network, even if they remember the SSID/password. Once I set the SSID to broadcast, the devices automagically saw the network and joined. Just make sure you choose a unique SSID.<br /><br />One potential problem I have to investigate. What is someone chooses the same name (SSID) and no password -- which one will the device choose?jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-20963417562457146212010-05-31T11:39:00.003-04:002010-05-31T12:28:03.280-04:00Security's Top 4 Social Engineers Of All TimeClick <a href="http://www.darkreading.com/blog/archives/2010/05/securitys_top_4.html">here</a> for the article.<br /><br />On this, Quit Facebook Day, I haven't quit Facebook since there are reasons to have a presence there. However, to protect my privacy, I've removed every shred of profile information, including using a fake birthday (was already doing that). Basically, i treat it like Twitter - I'll read stuff, I'll contribute not-too-personal stuff, you can figure out who I am by my associations, but I won't provide any specific personal information (it's enough that Google is trying to get all of that stuff :-/ ).<br /><br />Another interesting article <a href="http://bit.ly/aYkaCS">here (bit.ly link)</a> or <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052804853.html">here (direct link to Washington Post)</a>.jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-54927510277623900892010-05-30T15:56:00.003-04:002012-03-09T16:36:47.105-05:00What am I up to?Things on my to-do list:<br />
- transfer passwords being kept by Firefox to 1Password (Mac) and KeePass (PC)<br />
- consolidate data from a dozen 100-200GB (WD & LaCie) external drives into TB drives- set up WD NAS drive<br />
- set up TimeMachine backups for MacBook (to LaCie d2 quadra)<br />
- upgrade MacBook to SnowLeopard<br />
- find a decent multi-account Twitter client for iPad (use Twitterific on iPhone and Seesmic Desktop on PC, nothing on Mac)<br />
- find a decent newsreader for iPhone & iPad (use Google Reader on PC, nothing on Mac)<br />
- finish transferring most of my work from PC to MacBook<br />
- wait for <a href="http://www.hengedocks.com/">Henge Docks</a> docking station to become available for my 13" MacBook<br />
- try to load OpenBSD on my old PowerPC chip iMac (currently running OS X Tiger)<br />
- wait for the new iPhone coming in Junejcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-16227210276357321022010-05-30T15:44:00.001-04:002010-05-30T15:45:55.742-04:00Lost meets Avatarclick <a href="http://twitpic.com/1sfnat">here</a> for the picture (via <a href="http://www.twitter.com/jlist">@jlist</a>").jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-82454020644569821412010-05-30T15:32:00.003-04:002010-05-30T15:36:00.982-04:00Steven Fry on "What I wish I'd known when I was 18"Take 30 minutes out of your day to listen to <a href="http://vimeo.com/11414505">this</a> (via <a href="http://www.twitter.com/chockenberry">@chockenberry</a>). If you'd prefer to listen to it offline as an mp4 (instead of streaming it), bring me a USB stick.jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-60373800303607921712010-05-30T15:18:00.002-04:002010-05-30T15:23:09.294-04:00Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'Interesting article <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/10154775.stm">here</a> (via <a href="http://www.twitter.com/samkrishna">@samkrishna</a>).jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-77821360012003947812010-01-20T13:16:00.003-05:002010-01-20T13:20:49.536-05:00Mac & CheeseIf you love soft mac & cheese with lots of cheese, go to Panera. I tried them and Noodles & Co and surprisingly, Panera was far better -- even better than my prior favorite -- Stouffer's frozen (the one I went to was on Lee Hwy in Fairfax, just west of Rt 123 - near the H-Mart).jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-83474457578517920322009-10-21T12:11:00.004-04:002009-10-21T12:23:33.583-04:00if you use a MiFi (Verizon/Sprint) with your iPhone ...<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">... then you need <a href="http://ax.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.itunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewSoftware%253Fid%253D333601535%2526mt%253D8">this app</a>.<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-BwqGeNlSxMMnjokGRzLuj3sC-_gsThnwDuAYNN0rdosSbs9EaqaVXYVtLWp3xv-xqlI8PUSXjPXCS6C9f686wg4vhU_AFyOUUnr68BICTvqFmq-xt4PmwbMRH_kMlBWGCAeNmFsue0/s1600-h/ihnatko2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 214px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha-BwqGeNlSxMMnjokGRzLuj3sC-_gsThnwDuAYNN0rdosSbs9EaqaVXYVtLWp3xv-xqlI8PUSXjPXCS6C9f686wg4vhU_AFyOUUnr68BICTvqFmq-xt4PmwbMRH_kMlBWGCAeNmFsue0/s320/ihnatko2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395089197905963378" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/Ihnatko/status/5030359521">Andy Ihnatko</a> for the recommendation.<br /></span><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/gordonj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjdoYd8LHz8CnH1QaZd85P36OW4lMQgx7YjAoscF7rz3sHLeBgXFtdaSwB3it9Ur4SVMwLc9J1MfG-qVl6bb3iOyDdJpp1u_jtuQXXKHekMrUkpv2gHuBMMkdJ0LXmIb53iUmQ_teZB_0/s1600-h/ihnatko.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 63px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjdoYd8LHz8CnH1QaZd85P36OW4lMQgx7YjAoscF7rz3sHLeBgXFtdaSwB3it9Ur4SVMwLc9J1MfG-qVl6bb3iOyDdJpp1u_jtuQXXKHekMrUkpv2gHuBMMkdJ0LXmIb53iUmQ_teZB_0/s320/ihnatko.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395088611053930482" border="0" /></a>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-70268503635433857862009-10-14T23:31:00.003-04:002009-10-14T23:40:18.723-04:00Upgraded MacBook hard drive<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Updated drive from Hitachi 120GB to WD 500GB. <a href="http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/">SuperDuper!</a> made the job a breeze - no hitches whatsoever.</span>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-70250902175423244662009-10-10T17:12:00.003-04:002009-10-10T17:16:29.608-04:00New laptop skin<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I really like my new laptop skin for my 13" white Macbook. This is what it looks like with the laptop turned on and the Apple logo shining through the skin. You can get it <a href="http://www.pvpstuff.com/skin-creationofadam.html">here [pvpstuff.com]</a> .<br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hGLNKc-ddjHOeTUhrX-C57xq6kaPcn8O2IBL5BKuPjKVZXLGgxDlaBmwlZCaiOs3meQJTkj65T9109yNRWFwyTL1wDVKGJGvRH5jP4cg7kiLStdn0fwdOctOfKhmZUGWj9eRY4-FggI/s1600-h/photo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4hGLNKc-ddjHOeTUhrX-C57xq6kaPcn8O2IBL5BKuPjKVZXLGgxDlaBmwlZCaiOs3meQJTkj65T9109yNRWFwyTL1wDVKGJGvRH5jP4cg7kiLStdn0fwdOctOfKhmZUGWj9eRY4-FggI/s320/photo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391082868189231042" border="0" /></a>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-28266394401407864252009-10-10T12:40:00.002-04:002009-10-10T12:43:19.113-04:00Things I didn't know about the iPhone<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">... and you might not know either ...<br /><br />the built-in Calculator app appears to be a standard calculator, but turn it on its side (landscape) and it becomes a scientific calculator - no need to click a button to change between scientific and </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">standard </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">!<br /></span>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-14311099006297459002009-10-01T18:38:00.002-04:002009-10-01T18:39:02.496-04:00Live as a geek, die as a geek<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">An interesting choice for a cremation urn <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/26445696@N04/3961372594/in/photostream/">at Flickr</a>.<br /></span>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-50445015531899442072009-10-01T13:48:00.001-04:002009-10-01T13:51:48.580-04:00Guy Kawasaki's 10-20-30 rule for presentations<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Simple, elegant, brilliant ... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liQLdRk0Ziw&feature=player_embedded">on YouTube</a></span>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3355001191196671432.post-14294714653446660162009-09-25T15:50:00.003-04:002009-09-25T16:27:20.920-04:00New FeedDemon 3 for Windows -- TERRIBLE !<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">For a long time, I have been using Firefox Live Bookmarks to keep track of my RSS feeds, but I noticed that I never seemed to go and read anything. It was always too inconvenient to click through each of the folders and subfolders, looking for a feed that had changed, read the new items, and then repeat for the next feed.<br /><br />I had heard good things about NetNewsWire for the iPhone and Mac (where i would also like to read my RSS feeds) and its ability to keep all three (PC, Mac, iPhone) in sync. But, they were in transition from their old way (their own sync) to using GoogleReader as their sync platform. So I waited patiently for them to complete their betas and release the new stuff.<br /><br />In the meantime, I moved all of my feeds from Firefox Live Bookmarks to Google Reader (exported the OPML file). I didn't use GoogleReader to read any of them though - I didn't want to get used to it if i was planning to use NNW/FeedDemon instead.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">So, today, I just installed the new FeedDemon 3 for Windows. What a piece of junk. I heard people who complained about the ads, but that is a very small space in the lower left corner (where nothing else is) and is easy enough to ignore. What I couldn't live with is the navigation through the posts.<br /><br />What I want to do is read the unread posts in oldest-to-newest order and have some way to easily mark them as read. Should be easy enough, right ? What a piece of junk.<br /><br />Fortunately, they have a "watch" in the left pane for only unread items. I had thousands, so I told it to mark them all as read and came back in a few hours -- 35 items. Good. I brought up the unread items and spent some time selecting a view that looked like what I wanted -- "Surfer" (as in web surfer). I told it to show the entire post, to sort by date, and found the option to reverse the sort. So, I had the posts in the right order. So far, I was happy. Not with the amount of time it took to do this, but I was new to RSS readers and could excuse that as my "newbie"-ness. But what happened next ? What a piece of junk.<br /><br />There isn't a good visible break between posts that I could use when scanning forward to the "next" post, so I started looking for something that would let me just click to the next post. Ahh, there it is at the bottom of the screen "Next Unread". I clicked it and did it take me to the next unread post ? NO. It took me to the next PAGE of unread posts (the 35 items were spread across 2 "pages" -- at the bottom, it also said "Page 1 of 2" next to forward and backward navigation buttons). I don't quite understand why they are spread across "pages" since each "page" is multiple (10?) screens long, but there it was.<br /><br />Anyway, when I clicked "Next Unread", it didn't mean next unread post, it meant next unread PAGE. And when it went there, it marked everything on the previous page READ. What a piece of junk, but not the end of the world, so I went back and manually scrolled down the page and got through those posts and returned to "Page 2". For some reason I hit "Next Unread" again on this page and the results were incomprehensible. Since there was no next page, it took me to the home page and marked everything on that page READ (like before). BUT, this time, I could not back up to the previous page. Further, there is no way to create a "watch" that says "show me everything that was new in the last hour" so I could recover. No dice.<br /><br />I went immediately to GoogleReader and discovered that FeedDemon had not sync-ed with it yet and the last page of posts were still marked as "unread" in GoogleReader. So I decided to see if GoogleReader would meet my needs.<br /><br />I was able to set it up the same way as I had it under FeedDemon and started reading the posts. Two things that I noticed:<br /><br />1. Posts were automatically marked as read as I scrolled past them. For me, that is a good thing. Under FeedDemon, you would have to either wait for it to mark the whole page as read when you finished the page, or click the envelope icon that was under the post's headline. That seems to be a good idea, but if the post is a long one, you don't want to have to scroll all the way back up to click the stupid icon. With GoogleReader, it marks it automatically, but if you don't like that, there is an box in the BOTTOM line (after the post) to keep it unread - at the BOTTOM where it belongs (top and bottom would be even better). And if you don't like the automatic marking, there is a menu option to stop it from doing that.<br /><br />2. There is a "previous item" and "next item" button that takes you to the previous or next POST, just like you would expect.<br /><br />3. If you are going to change to change the sort order (from newest first to oldest first), one word of advice. At the beginning of the line you will see "x new items - all items" where "all items" is highlighted. Click "x new items" first, then change the sort order. Otherwise, it will try to sort EVERYTHING when all you want to see are the new (unread) items.<br /><br />Overall, FeedDemon is not even worth the price (free). Just stick with GoogleReader.<br /></span>jcghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028956961966615927noreply@blogger.com0