MNPP: Mac + Nginx + Percona + PHP. Twitter battles fail whale with new data center. Locafollow_finding_local_twitter_users_made_easy.php from google. Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? Techmeme. Twitter briefly blocked by hackers. Expect Firefox 3.6 to arrive only in 2010. Custom Keywords. Mozilla Custom Keywords ROCK! Not just for making shorthand for bookmarks but also for searches and queries. Simple keywords allow you to type a short string in the Location Bar and load its corresponding Bookmark URL. An example is my bookmark for to which I've added the keyword m.o. So, with that set, I can type m.o in the Location Bar and it loads Using keywords combined with autocomplete in Mozilla and I seldom type more than about three or four characters for all of the sites I regularly visit.
To set a keyword you must first create a bookmark for the URL. Then you add the keyword to the bookmark. But that's just the beginning. I'll use Bugzilla Bug Report lookup as an example. Bookmark The keyword "bug" followed by a space and the bug number will load the URL " Some other really cool examples: Facebook Fugitive Craig Lynch Gets Clothing Line, Theme Song, Wh. (Facebook) LONDON (CBS/AP) Escaped British prisoner Craig "Lazie" Lynch is taunting police and attracting a growing Internet fan base from his Facebook profile where he is mocking authorities for failing to find him and openly musing about moving across the Atlantic. Facebook Photo: Craig Lynch. At almost 4,000 fans, Lynch is likely the most popular fugitive on Facebook. And his Internet stardom has spawned a T-shirt line and even a song in the fleet-footed convict's honor. Fans have flooded his page with praise for his daring, but Suffolk Constabulary spokeswoman Anne-Marie Breach said there was nothing spectacular about the 28-year-old's escape from the prison where he was held — a converted college on the English coast that she said had only minimal security.
"Basically it's an open prison," she said, calling it a prison that inmates "can virtually walk out of. " Photo: Facebook screen grab of Craig Lynch's profile. "i aint handin myself in," Lynch wrote in one post Tuesday. TIME Names Gadget of the Year: Droid. TIME has published its top 10 of everything 2009, and the winner in the gadgets category is a relative newcomer: the Droid. The Motorola phone on the Verizon network is a great device on the best network, TIME argues, making it the obvious choice despite being new to the market. TIME writes: Droid is a hefty beast, a metal behemoth without the gloss and finish of the iPhone, but you don't miss it. The Droid's touchscreen is phenomenally sharp and vivid, it has an actual physical (not great, but good enough) keyboard, and, best of all, the Droid is on Verizon's best-of-breed 3G network. We tend to agree; the Droid is a fantastic phone and a poster child for Google's Android OS.
Disclosure: Motorola and Verizon are Mashable sponsors. It's Google Chrome Day! Extensions & Mac Version Available Now. Somebody Please Make the Rambler Socket - Rambler Socket - Gizmo. Year in review: Social networking. Bill Gates thinks the iPad is ‘Okay’ Alpha Software: How to use an auto-suggest control instead of a. Here's time-saving tip number two for you this week. Feeling lucky? Maybe you should buy a lottery ticket on your way home from work tonight. A popular feature of a dropdown control is that it lets you store an ID value, but display text. For example, in an order items table you store the product ID value, but display the product name. Selecting a product name instead of memorizing an ID value is much easier for the user. Here's the drawback. The list of choices for the dropdown control has to be loaded when the Grid is loaded. These two videos show you a technique where you can use an auto-suggest control in place of a dropdown control to achieve the same benefit for the user without any performance degradation.
The auto-suggest control lets the Grid load faster, since the list of choices does not have to be loaded up front. Holden Page. Tech specs confuse gadget buyers. 16 September 2010Last updated at 18:32 Which? Found laptops labelled Bluray but without in-built Bluray drives Labels containing technology specifications and jargon are "misleading people buying new electronic devices" claims Which? In many cases, the statistics of different brands are not comparable, says the consumer watchdog group. Shops can add to the confusion by not understanding the significance of the labels either, according to the Which? The firm looked at a range of devices including TVs, cameras, and laptops. "Televisions make a lot of claims and use a lot of big numbers," said Matt Bath, technology editor at Which?
"One set claimed to have 'four trillion colours' - which sounds fantastic. He also warned consumers against comparing statistics - such as contrast ratios between different sets - because the manufacturers do not have a common standard, so the numbers they use are not the same. No Comparison Digital camera marketing also came under scrutiny. OFFF Paris 2010 Titles - R27.CREATIVELAB. Ten Second Tip|In Browser Password Managment. Friday, 02 July 2010 13:48 Written by Maximilian Lemos 1 Comment Share & Enjoy Passwords should always be given a high amount of care. Think of your passwords similarly to how you would the security of your home. You wouldn’t give your house keys to anyone who happened to walk by your house. Here is your Ten Second Tip from Make it Work : How To Remove All Stored Passwords in Your Web Browser Internet Explorer : • Click Tools→Internet Options • Click General Tab, then “Delete” under Browsing History • Check “Passwords” box • Click “Delete” • This will delete ALL Internet Explorer stored passwords Firefox : • Click Tools→Options (or Firefox→Preferences on a Mac) • Click Security • Click “Saved Passwords” • Click website you want to delete the saved password for • Click Remove!
Google Chrome : • Click Tools→Options (or Chrome→Preferences on a Mac) • Click “Personal Stuff” tab • Click “Show Saved Passwords” Safari : • Click Safari→Preferences • Click Autofill button Knowledge is power my friends.