Review | Firefox addon: AutoPager

Haven’t scouted for new FF addons since forever but am truly happy to have found this one. Works great on Google and YouTube (plus many more handy sites), which in itself will save me tons of clicks in the future:) And trust me, I’m not doing it justice with words, you really have to try it on Google images and just glide effortlesly through literally(!) hundreds of results in mere seconds!…

There’s also tweaks galore to customize it any which way you desire, but apart from setting the add-on to auto-detect I let them be – and it works great. When you don’t want to use it, the conveniently placed button in the status bar lets you turn it off/on with a no-fuss single click. Sweet!

This should give you a rough idea of how it works (notice the little green box notice in the bottom left corner-it lets you know when the next page is loading)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4925

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How to replace Google Notebook

Here’s an interesting page with different solutions to the issue. It’s a wiki, so it hopefully should be as unbiased as can be, and easily edited by anyone, so feel free to share;)

Myself, I’m a Diigo person, I can’t imagine using the net without it, and even thou similar tools like Evernote have some kick-ass functions that Diigo hasn’t, I commend it for its fuss-free simplicity and effectiveness. A must have, in my book:)

(via: Wired)

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Some much needed improvements (Watch Seth Godin’s video below to get a better idea of what I mean)
• [Eco] Should They be Generation E?
• [Nature] When under attack, plants can signal microbial friends for help (amazing stuff)
  
• [Man-made] 3D Virtual Heart So Real Doctors’ Own Hearts Go Pitter Patter
• [Man-made] Seth Godin’s Tribes (great presentation on video…I really can’t describe in words how much I feel exactly, EXACTLY(!!!!!!!!!!!!!)  like Seth on this one:). Of all the futurists, he is easily the most pragmatic one!)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Does the use of hand gestures slow language learning? (I drool over this type of empirical research data)

ENTERTAINMENT

• Not Photoshopped: Li Wei’s Astounding Action Art
• Dolls and Toys that Creep us Out
• That’s Worlds Highest Bungee Jump @ Helicopter @ 500m/1640ft
• Tuttuki Bako (after seeing the video…spechless!)
• When Robot Programmers get bored
• Improv Everywhere Creates Epic Balloon Battles Using MP3 Players (IE still rocks)

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A small tribute to PBwiki. I’ve tried a couple of online wiki‘s, and this one’s price-performance (for personal use, cost-zero!) is by far the best I’ve seen and used thus far. The interface is incredibly slick and easy to use and is a big time-saver. They also put strong emphasis on back-up (which you can also manually download onto your pc) and guarantee that loss of data will not occur on their watch (how much that can be trusted is of course up to you). What’s also pretty sweet is the ability to invite guests and have them look only at a particular page of your wiki and not the whole thing (so personal info and to-do lists of celebrity hotties are safe from prying eyes). Other cool features: RSS (comes in handy if/when many users update pages), downloading pages as .pdf’s, interface flexibility…

My personal thought is that every single company (even a one-man band) MUST have a personal wiki (or anything that allows fluid and user-friendly knowledge-transfer that will be put to good use) to handle the abundance of info they deal with.

One of those things that simply make my life so much easier and better! Simply a must:) For more on IT that I think is really practical and useful, click here.

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Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole (old but effing relevant nonetheless!!!)
• [IT] Why is almost half of Google in beta? & Google Patent Could Kill Off Cellphone Contracts
• [Nano] Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Mean Bye-Bye Steel
• [Health] TED Talks - James Nachtwey: Use my photographs to stop the worldwide XDR-TB epidemic (this year’s TED prize winner)
• [Astronomy] Where Do Satellites Go When They Die? (crazy stuff!)
• [Psychology] Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people

ENTERTAINMENT

• Show Me Your Genitals 2: E=MC Vagina (the sequel to that retarded yet somehow much needed song about female genitals:P)
• Man Uses Remote Desktop to Catch Laptop Thief, Watch Porn Remotely
• The Coolest Fruit On Earth (gollum wants the precious!)
• Stressed Plants Produce Aspirin-Like Substance
• Riding the Caspian Sea Monster (great stuff about ekranoplans…Exactly!)
• An Engineer’s Guide to Cats

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A small tribute to recession.Thank FSM it’s only hitting the U.S. Oh wait…
Personally lovin’ it, cos:

• people thought they knew what was going wrong, but luckily nobody gave a fuck because they knew better. And boy were they right!
• everybody (except idiots) knows that 700,000,000,000 is a nice, strong, round number (…doh!) and the U.S. government knows why they had to pass the bill to get the cash. (from 6:40 on)
• 7 is also the number of years the U.S. has been out of the spotlight since their last great global contribution started, so it was about time they got back into the news. This time they really outdid themselves, put their heads together and brought something even more positive to the table. God bless America.
• recession is the easiest and cheapest dieting regime there is…by far!!!
• women are clueless when it comes to economics, so nobody ever cares what they have to say
• we finally get to have our very own modern up-to-date economic bedtime story of the 21st century. Nighty night, sleep tight, don’t let the recession bugs bite.

TO BE CONTINUED…? Naaah, this’ll be over before McCain becomes prez and Palin proves dinosaurs were put on Earth to test our faith to FSM. Santa’s gonna bring mighty nice gifts this Christmas, so I’d start spending bigtime if I were you!

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(via: all the usual and unusual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [Nano] Faster, Cheaper DNA Sequencing
• [Future] ‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise (Minority Report, take two!)
• [Nature] An Arctic Sea “Foaming” with Methane: What Now? (the most disturbing thing I’ve read in a while!!! More here)
• [Man-made] Scientists Develop Plastic-Producing Bacteria
• [Astronomy] TED Talks – Peter Diamandis: Taking the next giant leap in space
• [Psychology] [Politics] Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon (yeah, and elephants can fly in mid-air air:P)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Evolution of Mobile Phones 1985 – Today
• Record-Breaking Tower Tilts More Than Pisa
• Test your color IQ (I got an 8 out of a 100)
• The mating habits of the water shrew
• Rubik’s Mirror Blocks: The Cube Taken To New Dimensions of Trickiness
• The Great Dog Escape (you’ve gotta see it to believe it…and turn off the annoying music:P)

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A small tribute to Google. As much as they’ve been receiving some bad PR lately, they’re my personal choice of email, calendar, news aggregator, homepage, freeware 3D modeling, and I better stop before I sound like a really bad salesperson!

Also, they’ve

• recently celebrated their 10′th birthday
• unveiled the open-source mobile OS Android, which will hopefully be a match to the iPhone’s V.I.P.-ish politics!!!
• launched Google Moderator, Project 10^100, an energy modeling plug-in for SketchUp, and are constantly improving and inventing
• begun lobbying to open up unused broadcast spectrum, which we’ll probably hear more of in the near future
• seriously started considering of deploying their supercomputers out to sea or finding alternatives to lower their costs
• and are pretty much in-our-face whenever we use the net. Free of charge!

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(via: all the usual and unusual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Mash-up makers move into the mainstream (Mashup – the philosophy of mixing the best of (at least) two worlds!…Ubiquity anyone?)
• [IT] Google Launches Audio Indexing (like effing finally! It’s still got a long way to go, tho)
• [Future] Can PRT, or Podcars, Replace the Automobile? (perhaps a Minority Report-ish trend coming our way)
• [Economy] A Conversation with Yvon Chouinard (this guy sure knows how to treat his employees)
• [Man-made] Getting Electricity From Outer Space
• [Psychology] Software spots the spin in political speeches (or how we all better learn to be truthful)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The Grinch: Human Slingshot For Snow and Surfboarding (W…T…F…)
• Zoom into Concrete (also zoom into other materials)
• In a Tangle of Young Lips, a New Sex Rebellion is Brewing in Chile
• Mini Rooftop NYC + HWKN (looks like a blast on a Friday night)
• The short – but eventful – life of Ike (hey, if it’s nature fucking with us it’s entertainment!)
• Drum and bass (as one comment says: buy this guy some drums!)

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A small tribute to Diigo. Actually, a BIG-ASS one!!! The only downside is that I haven’t been using this since my first contact with the world wide web. Brings together the best of del.icio.us, social networking, Clipmarks, The Awesome Highlighter, etc, and is simply the best social bookmarking research tool I’ve come across.

One day’s usage and it’s become simply irreplaceable in my book. Hiiiighly recommended:)

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(via: all the usual and unusual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] Enable Chrome’s Best Features in Firefox
• [Eco] Bike-Sharing Goes Global: 5 Programs You Should Know About
• [Economy] Negative Momentum: Newspaper Ad Revenues Gaining Downhill Speed (Even Online Is Declining)
• [Man-made] Spore (it’s finally out & I hope it lives-up to the hype it’s created in the last two years!)
• [Psychology] Stop Rationalizing and Make Hard Decisions: Learning from Dr. King (short and to the point)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] Why Young Men Delay Adulthood to Stay in “Guyland”

ENTERTAINMENT

• Microsoft Patents Page Up and Page Down
• Scientists get death threats from idiots over possible apocalypse
• Elephant cured of drug addiction (if this ain’t ROFL material, then I’m the Pope so help me FSM)
• Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three
• Awww…crazy celebrities, drugs are for fridays and saturdays, weekdays it’s botox only!
• R.I.P. movie preview guy

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A small tribute to conspiracy theories, big brothers, small print, corruption (yeah, this one seems more like a small-fish local matter, but it just might change a thing or two in EU’s policy on arms deals) and Eric Arthur Blair who saw through it all.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain! (Harvey Dent)*

*The best quote I could think of comes from a friggin movie I recently saw…something definitely ain’t right in this spinning dirt-ball we live on

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(via: all the usual and unusual blogs and sites that I’ve got in Google Reader)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] ‘Shake-up’ for internet proposed
• [IT] Google Faces Off With Compete, Alexa, Comscore, Quantcast (And Soon Firefox) (dunno about you but I’m kinda starting to feel the dark side here, and Google’s new, khm, innocent-looking little ‘g’ favicon is starting to look and feel more and more like a silly front for the master of world domination of online information that is , khm, well “G”oogle)
• [Eco] Greenhouse Gases: Where Do They Come From? (it’s just one picture, but I just couldn’t take my eyes off of it…)
• [Economy] Important info about energy saver light bulbs! (or the stupidity/cunningness of a newly passed energy bill in the USA…when China’s got you by the balls you can’t just say “I’m sorry”, can you now)
• [Sociology] [Psychology] The Top 10 TED Talks
• [Man-made] [Psychology] “It’ll never work!” (a list of some of humanity’s biggest invetions and a bigger and in some cases, surprising list of non-believers who were apparently full of sh*t)

ENTERTAINMENT

• The 5 Creepiest Advertising Techniques of the (Near) Future (these guys are usually a laughing riot, but why I put this in the “fun” section is honestly beyond me!!!)
• Shaq Uses Freestyle Rap To Rip On Kobe For Losing NBA Finals (these two idiots should get married already)
• Schwarzenegger vs. Stallone ( this is some heavy sh*t…I’m dead serious!:) )
  
• What is obscene these days? (or how it’s OK to watch porn with midgets peeing on each other while stroking a donkey, but if they light a joint, well that’s (still) a no-no)
• Ten Million Pixel Comcast Display Wows Viewers With Un-throttled Ultra HD Video
• Realistic Hollywood Sex Scene

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:”’(

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George Denis Patrick Carlin ( May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008 )

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The following is compiled from different people who could put in writing what I felt on that sad Monday morning much better that I could:

The world is just a little less intelligent this morning. The biggest spokesperson for common sense, the person who taught me the real value of truth, far beyond what my parents taught me, has passed away.
Mr. Carlin was the screaming voice telling me to question authority, informing me that everyone is full of shit and to not trust anyone, cause we can’t even trust ourselves.Thank you George, for all these years of making me think and laugh at the same time.
I guess all that I can say now is, “Adios, Motherfucker.”

Your death was untimely, and would still be untimely even if you would live to be 142, on life-support, in a vegetative state and with a limp dick. I never even realized it up until now, but you were one of the few living heroes I had. And now you’re gone. You’re still my hero, tho! Fuck Joe Pesci, I’m praying to George Carlin!!

…will try and skip Sundays;)

Random stuff I found this week (cos I’m too lazy to post everything in separate posts)

USEFUL STUFF

• [IT] The Story Behind Google’s New Favicon
• [IT] Overview of Firefox 3
• [Future] Cisco Experimenting with an On-Stage Telepresence Experience (that I haven’t heard of this before is almost as mindboggling as the technology itself)
• [Economy] [Nature] Why bananas are a parable for our times (via Nina. You will be missed dearly ’till September!)
• [Man-made] [Nature] TED Talks – Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat (easily in my “Top 10″ TED Talks list)
• [Psychology] Humans can ‘see’ future (thought-provoking)

ENTERTAINMENT

• MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU (one word…RESTECPA!)
• Just cool pictures
• High times for medicinal marijuana
• Moog Unveils Badass Guitar with Infinite Sustain
• Building America’s Most Extreme New Roller Coaster
• What Happens When You Go Number 2 in Space? (if you’re on the romantic side, you might wanna skip this one)

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It’s exam time and most of us are in a rush. Lousy weather here in Ljubljana comes mighty handy for a change! I’ve been busy as fuck these last couple of days and most of my friends feel it too:-/…sorry guys, will make it up to you!

A small tribute to spending these exam days as wisely and productively as possible!

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