What can you do if you want a workspace but the only area you have free in a tiny apartment is 30″ of wall space between a bookcase and a door? Fold it away.
There’s a burn mark on your carpet because of a dropped cigarette or fireworks you set off indoors (though carpet marks are the least of your concerns at that point). Let’s bring out the scissors and hot glue.
If you want to open a folder of bookmarks in tabs, Firefox normally replaces all of your current tabs—but reader Raghav writes in with a quick configuration trick to fix that behaviour.
If asked, odds are most of you already identify as either a morning person or night owl. A new study says these classifications can be used to help determine optimal times when each group should perform their day-to-day activities.
Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension HistoryBlock prevents specific web sites from being tracked—like an always-on private browsing mode for certain domains.
When an accident happens, your first reaction can do more harm than good—if you believe and follow through with an inaccurate first-aid myth, that is.
Linux: Looking to get the kind of text substitution powers of Texter or TextExpander on Linux, but don’t know where to look? AutoKey, an automatic, tray-sitting text expander, is a good place to start.
A TechCrunch blogger examined tech gadfly Robert Scoble’s FriendFeed chatter and determined that, between all the no-it’s-not-quite-that clues, Microsoft is probably rolling out the web-based aspects of its Office line. Further clues? Office.com announces that it won’t be available as of July 31, 2009—likely because somebody with enough cash to buy such a hot URL is taking it over. In the meantime, you can look back at early Office webapp screenshots from an Oct. 2008 developer’s conference. [TechCrunch]
Blogger Tim Bray writes that he won’t consider any phone without a hardware keyboard. Apple commentator John Gruber replies that, for most people, the iPhone’s software keyboard works just fine. We’re wondering where our type-savvy readers fall on that choice.
