Firefox (my browser of choice), keeps forgetting my password and log-in information even though I checked the “remember me” on the website. Each time I went back to the website, I had to type in my login credentials again - annoying!
I couldn’t figure it out! I allow cookies for websites, so what’s the problem?
Well, I accept cookies alright… but only until Firefox closes! Duh! So, if you’re experiencing this problem, go to Preferences > Privacy > and in the cookies section choose to keep until “they expire” from the drop-down menu.
Posted last year, at the end of November.
Filed in: fun, internet
We stopped at Perkins in the middle of our “After Thanksgiving Sale” shopping. Breakfast was delicious and we were all in an excellent mood because we got everything on our list.
My sister-in-law left a few bills on the table as a tip and I noticed some writing on one of them. When I took a closer look I read the stamp “enter series and serial number at www.WheresGeorge.com”. Intrigued… I did as the bill suggested.
I found out that my bill started it’s journey in Alabama! Cool! If you want to find out more about the dollar bill I found, track my bill at WheresGeorge.com.
Google has done it again! They found another way for me to customize my search!
I’ve been experimenting with Jello recipes lately. I mixed a tub of whip cream with the last bowl of Jello I made. It was a huge hit. Tomorrow I’m going to try it with cream cheese. But that got me thinking… what fun ideas do other people do with Jello?
When I started my search for Jello recipes, I found out that Google has a custom recipe search! Awesome! Check out my screen shot - a thousand words right?
Firefox introduced a “Campus Edition” of their browser for scholars and students. This version combines the most popular add-ons for students into one easy download.
Since I already had Firefox, I just downloaded the extensions suggested for students. And… I found one of the most useful computer features I’ve ever used as a student! Zotero! This extension helps me collect, manage, and cite my research sources. It rocks! I save so much time in my research by clicking a button instead of writing an entire bibliography.
Update: I don’t like meeboo. I switched to Google Chat.
I installed a chat widget on the sidbar of my blog. You can send me an instant message so we can text each other. No need to sign up for an account or download any software… just start typing (but please tell me who you are when you write. )
« Look for “Live Chat” on the left sidebar. Chat me up homies!
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Carol and Mom skip this info! It’s just for those who want this technology on their own website.
I can’t figure out how to automatically allow “allow anyone.” Adium keeps asking me for authorization when my blog loads. Luckily I don’t get that many visitors.
Since my purchase of the original Nintendo, I want to stock up on all my favorite childhood games. I know I like Super Mario Bros 1, 2 and 3. And I like Kung Fu, Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers, and Spy VS Spy.
But I can’t remember all the other games I used to play. I found a website that reviews video games. I can tell by the description of the game if it’s something I used to play. I noticed that the web address had a weird ending. Instead of .com it was .vg. Cool… Video Game?
I looked it up on Wikipedia and found out that some websites use this ending (or top-level-domain if you will) for video game websites. Although the original use was for websites in the British Virgin Islands.
Here is the website for the game reviews: videogamereviews.vg. But don’t go there when you can play classic games for free at play.vg!
Your internet browser temporarily saves the web pages, and the images on those pages, in order to load those same pages faster when you go to them again. This “cache” is a great way to visit pages over and over without waiting forever for the page to load.
Some webmasters design their pages to automatically refresh each time you visit their site in order to make sure that your browser is loading the most current images. Other websites irritatingly refresh your browser every five minutes or so (like they change their information that fast - yeah right).
Anyway, you can reload the page yourself. Press the “refresh” or “reload” button on your browser. This will force your browser to load the website from the source, rather than the saved files on your computer.
Depending on which browser you use, your button will look something like one of these:
We’ve come a long way from scrolling text and the annoying <blink> tag. But why do we let our advertisers annoy the crap out of our visitors?
Some websites have so many advertisements that it’s hard to find real content. I surf the net without cookies, javascript, flash and image animations. This sucks for site owners who want good general statistics about how people navigate their site. It also sucks for me because I might be missing some good content in an effort to block the crap.
But I understand that people need to make a living. I just wish there was a better way. So, to make me feel better, I’m going to vent about all the website advertising that annoys me by writing a top-10 list.
Lying ads: “you’re a winner!”, “you have new messages.”
Ads that resize my browser window.
Ads that flash or blink.
Too many ads - page takes forever to load.
Ads between pages I navigate (skip this advertisement).
Floaters. Those stupid windows that obscure content.
Ads with noise. They usually scare the crap out of me.
Articles written on 10 pages (one paragraph on each page) in order to show me more damn ads.
Ads that look like links that belong to this site, but in fact, take me to some advertisement site.
Ads in the middle of the page - right smack in between one article’s paragraph and the next.
Of course, these are just the advertisement annoyances. I could go on and on about websites in general (coming soon, logo not a link to the homepage).
Let’s be smart and stop using intrusive advertising that pisses me off!
When I first created my web design website, I added two stylesheets - a printer friendly and a low-vision friendly. They’re totally ugly, but I wanted to stick with function, not beauty.
I noticed the other day on campus that students stop to read flyers with color photos. They skip right over the plain font flyers, or even the ones with pictures printed in black and white. I guess a picture really does tell a thousand words.
When designing my website I wanted to steer away from a cluttered image-filled look, to a nice clean soft-colored site. After looking at it yesterday, I decided the colors actually look old, like they’ve been yellowed from the sun.
Anyway, I found some sites (listed below) that let you change the page style, but not all of them do it for accessibility features. In fact most of them seem to do it just for fun. Maybe Jenn doesn’t like to have fun? All work and no play makes Jenn… you know the rest.
By the way… DON’T click your back button if you want to change the style back. Just choose a different style (probably “default”) from the page you’re on!
For those of you using feeds to read my blog, you’ll see three strange words (freebird l whilst l jester) after the first paragraph of each post. It’s annoying yes… but it helps me catch spamming thieves.
Thieves? Whoa, sounds scary.
It is scary! Splogs take content via RSS feeds and post them to a spammer’s blog. Basically, they steal someone else’s good quality content (and keywords) to use as their own… posted nice and neat right next to all their spammy ads and links. They’re too cheap, stupid and lazy to write their own content. Unfortunately, their websites look real to an unsuspecting reader.
How do you know if your content has been stolen?
I use MaxPower’s digital fingerprint. I choose a few random words that are automatically placed in each post. I can search for this exact phrase by putting the phrase in quotes and doing a Google search to find my content on someone else’s website. Then… I can let all hell break loose. Really, I will inform God.. er.. I mean Google about the stolen content and Google will remove the site from their index.
Why bother? The Twaddle doesn’t have any good quality content.
Ha ha. Very funny. While you’re probably right, I still want to protect my intellectual property. Intellectual… okay, now I’m really stretching it!
Okay, fine. But why those three words?
I don’t know. I just Google searched for “random words” and I found a website with a whole page of them.
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Hey, I don't want this picture. What gives?
