Archive for the 'Internet' Category

Labels: auto-complete and “move to”
The buttons and menus at the top of your inbox look a bit different: there’s a new “Labels” button that makes labeling messages even easier. Turn on keyboard shortcuts and hit “L” to bring up your labels, and auto-complete will take it from there. Use the “Move to” button to label […]

Opera SpeedDial is so awesome it was one of the quickest features copied by other browsers. Unfortunately the default amount of sites of 9 (3×3) is rather limiting. I know research shows people generally visit less than 10 sites but I visit more and found myself really running out of space and having to relegate […]

It amazes me how many things claim to not work in Opera, yet when you set Opera to “Mask as IE” they work perfectly. The last 2 examples are the HTMLArea wysiwyg editor built into a number of other website apps, and the new FNB internet banking website. So how do you do this little […]

Wow, I feel like there’s a piece of technology no-one told me about. Seems the best use for it though is for streaming media to an Xbox360. I’m talking about “Orb” (www.orb.com, Wikipedia entry). Essentially what it is is a piece of software on your PC able to index all your media files and transcode/stream […]

Just run “telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl”. Absolutely crazy use of telnet. About the only thing telnet is good for :p I hope the RIAA doesn’t bust them… It’s apparently about 2 years old but I only saw it now so :p There’s some more stuff on on telnet.org but that’s about the best of it.