FotoMagico is program that lets you create amazing slideshows. In FotoMagico, slides advance in one of two ways: automatically, after a set time period after a mouse click If you’ve picked option (2), you see a “fast forward” overlay when you click the mouse: I dislike this. Fortunately, there’s a preference to turn this off. …
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This will prevent many of the annoying ads from showing up on Facebook: sudo echo “127.0.0.1 ads.ak.facebook.com” >> /etc/hosts One would think with all the demographic data they have about me, they could show me relevant ads. One would be wrong.
People are really bad at naming files on their computer. How many times have you walked up to someone’s desktop to see half a dozen “untitled folder”s, several “documents” and files with other generic names like “resume,” “proposal” and “draft”? Are you really going to remember what’s in that file tomorrow? In two months? In …
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More proof that airlines are run by idiots: Airlines argue that adding fees this way is preferable to fare hikes because in theory, at least, passengers who don’t want to use the services can avoid them. And airlines can’t just raise fares whenever it suits them because the industry is so competitive that they’d surely …
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Clay Shirky explains the future: I was having dinner with a group of friends about a month ago, and one of them was talking about sitting with his four-year-old daughter watching a DVD. And in the middle of the movie, apropos nothing, she jumps up off the couch and runs around behind the screen. That …
Following up on the booking agent and singer, we have the guitar player and entrepreneur. Jukebox the Ghost’s Tommy Siegel and Citizen Agency’s Chris Messina: Apparently they have a triplet, Josh Roth.
Your generation had John Kennedy and Pierre Trudeau. My generation has checked out of politics for the longest time. We’re jaded. We’re cynical. We’re tired of spin and sound bites, tired of talking points, tired of being talked at. We want authenticity. We want an end to corruption. We want inspiration. In 1961, John F …
Hanlon’s razor tells us that we should “never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” I’m still unable to figure which is the case with Facebook’s new promo guidelines. Bad linking policies are nothing new — we’ve seen them from Fast Company, NPR, Starbucks and KPMG. But these stories are old, …