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New flybuys Earns Discounts Faster (But They're Not Good Discounts) Here’s a video roundup of the new generation of games consoles, in video review format by a fast talking brit who mashes up hilarious South Park-esque graphics with lashings of gratuitous insults and fanboy baiting. It’s good fun, especially when it goes beyond the obvious to talk about things like why the video game industry has an “invisible pigeonholing council”. :) I first came across Zero Punctuation when I was sent a link to his Bioshock review, in which he readily admits that people much prefer to hear negative reviews than positive ones. Hilarity, as they say, ensues. The creator, Yahtzee is a “British-born, currently Australian-based writer and gamer” whose Zero Punctuation video reviews appear every Wednesday at The Escapist. Warning: Language gets colourful at times, probably not so work safe.
For all its ‘the best code wins’ meritocracy ethos, developers also need to be able to communicate and get their point of view across. Opinions will always differ on the best way to do things, and you and your work will be critiqued. Here’s an interesting article from Linux.com which talks to Linus Torvalds about dealing with conflict and differing opinions on code development.
Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Choose to download, open or view PDFs as HTML on a case-by-case basis with the PDF Download Firefox extension. After you’ve installed it, clicking a PDF link will pop up the PDF Download dialog, where you can choose your preferred action. It’s not for everyone, but if you regularly deal with PDFs and you want more granular control over how Firefox manages them, PDF Download is a great add-on.
PDF Download [Firefox Add-ons via Web Worker Daily]Just a reminder to all you Melbourners out there to enter our current competition to win tickets to the Pixar: 20 years of animation exhibition.
You already know that you can get quick local search results from your phone with Google SMS for the price of a text message, but the service is a helluva lot more usable now that you can set your default location. Just send a text to Google SMS (466453) with set location [city, zip code, address] . Now when you want to perform weather, movies, or restaurant look-ups via Google SMS, you can just text, for example, weather rather than weather 90210. Much more convenient!
Google SMS [via Google Operating System]You can remove a water stain from wood by spreading a mixture of mayo and cigarette ashes (yum) on the stain, according to the Wise Bread weblog. In addition to the mayo+ash trick, the post tackles rust, carpet, wine and teeth with homebrewed stain removers that the author claims to have worked for him. If you’ve had any experience with these unusual stain remedies, let’s hear about it in the comments.
Secret homemade stain removers that kick butt [Wise Bread via Dumb Little Man]The stress of living paycheque-to-paycheque got you down? If your palms get sweaty every time you glance at your bills, web site The Motley Fool offers five smart tips for ending the madness. You’re suffering from Paycheque-to-Paycheque Syndrome, a malady that can affect anyone — regardless of income — who regularly runs short of money in the bank. Associated symptoms include sleepless nights, high blood pressure, fits of guilt, and denial.
The steps—evaluate and attack the illness, cure your denial, prevent future illness and relax—follow a basic but effective course of action. If you’ve been there, share your tips for how you got out of the paycheque-to-paycheque rut in the comments.
5 Steps to Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck [The Motley Fool]VMWare recently released an open source version of its virtual machine tools. The new product will be housed at Sourceforge and known as Open Virtual Machine Tools. Thanks, Martin!
We post a variety of software tips and tricks around here, and only a fraction of them have to do with web publishing. However, since the proliferation of free hosted blogs, more and more people are becoming web publishers every day. Hell, we’ve even shown you how you can run your own web server from home. So we’re curious:
You thought your rig with Vista, XP and Linux was badass? Try installing 145 operating systems on one PC.
