Christmas has made my blogging even more sporadic than it uses to be… Still I manage to keep up with a couple of interresting blogs via my bloglines account – I had to rediscover Bloglines after my experiments with first Firefox as my preferred rss-reader and then the Sage extension. But for now I have settled with Bloglines and the nice toolkit extension.
In the dawn of the internet one of the coolest screensavers thinkable was displaying the SETI@Home process – basically a visualization of your efforts to help find LGM.
Now BOINC(Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) gives you the opportunity to donate computing power to a range of scientific research projects from climate prediction to biomedical research.
Squarefree has a lot of bookmarklets which gives your browser extra funktionalities in categories such as search, SEO, forms and validation. Choose your favourite browser and drag single bookmarklets or whole menus to your toolbar. I bet the functionalities of all the listed bookmarklets can be found as firefox extensions, but the drag and drop actions on the squarefree site, is quite nice.
I’m not really sure what to make or think of hyperwords – but the idea seems to be inspired by Doug Engelbarts thoughts on interactive text. It seems that hyperwords is an extension to the browser, making all words clickable in some way. A cool feature is that you can underline or ‘speedmark’ any piece of text on the page you are curently reading. Some of the features already exist (dictionary look ups through right click etc) but in my point of view, a collaborative extension of hyperwords could be commenting weppages on the fly and letting others (of your choice) see your comments.
Oh, and there is a hyperwords blog (although it looks like a semi-live stream of consciousness from Frode Hegland, the guy behind the project, it seems).
[via Joi Ito]
A post from Dalager led me to eldorama and then on to a very intriguing version of tetris – Character Disorder. Eldorama describes Character Disorder as extremely addictive – a description I fully support.
Having trouble staying awake while your Acrobat Reader churns into action?
A patch to speed up acrobat is described here – the actual download is here. I haven’t tested it (yet), but it looks promising…
I’ve decided to learn the shortcuts in Firefox but my patience is not as long as it used to be… Learning an application or computergame by mere trial and error has somehow lost it’s charm. And thus I went hunting for an overview of the shortcuts in Firefox. Obviously I succeded, and I’m now trying to internalize ctrl+t for new tabs, ctrl+tab for sorting through the tabs, ctrl+w closes the active tab, and finally ctrl+l for the adressbar, which in Firefoxian is the location bar.
Ahh, ctrl+1-9 can also be used to navigate throug the tabs.
I’m getting there. 
I’m SO annoyed with the fact that I can’t define custom shortcuts in powerpoint 
It’s possible in Word – so why on earth must I use my mouse all the time in powerpoint. Hopeless – only way to do it, it seems, is to purchase the shortcut manager.
Update – instead I made WP more userfriendly by updating the quicktags.js file that is found in the wp-admin folder. The buttons in the interface are now tooltipped with shortcuts. Thanks to Stickboy in the worpress support forum for the code to tooltipped buttons (link made with shortcut )
WordPress’ list of shortcuts