February 2010
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“Will move to stay-pufft.blogspot.com :)”
– Stay Pufft
January 2010
8 posts
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Best URL Shorteners
When every character counts, the right URL compacting service can mean the difference between saying what you want and desperately trying to fit a coherent thought into a few insufficient words. Earlier this week we asked you to share your favorite URL shrinking tools, and now we’re back with the five most popular answers. Read on for a closer look at the five best URL shrinkers and to vote...
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“A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough...”
– Unknown
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Why Popularity at Work Matters
In high school, didn’t a part of you always wonder how the cool kids did it? Popularity remained an enigmatic aspect of human existence that ceased to be relevant once we threw our caps in the air…right? There are scores of research studies on popularity in schools, and most have indicated that popular children are viewed as better students and make and maintain friendships more easily. In 2009,...
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Courtesy of Twitter and Facebook Users: 2009 In...
On December 31, 2009, NPR ask Twitter and Facebook users to summarize 2009 in one word. In a matter of hours, they received almost 5000 replies. They use the tag cloud generator Wordle. The above image is what they get.
via NPR
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10 great Google Chrome extensions
On Dec. 8, Google finally released a repository of extensions for Google Chrome. Chrome extensions numbered at more than 300 on launch day. As a beta project, extensions come with a few caveats from Google. For the moment, Google is only supporting extensions in its latest beta version of Chrome, so if you prefer the official, stable browser, you’ll have to forgo add-on tools for now....
December 2009
11 posts
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“There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead”
– Kairi Deruma
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Vulnerability in Microsoft's IIS
There’s been a bit of a disagreement in the security community over how serious a recently discovered vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) really is. On one hand, the researcher who discovered the bug labeled it as “highly critical,” while at least one other security firm showed far less concern. So what does Microsoft have to say about all this?...
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“There are three kinds of people: The ones who learn by reading. The ones who...”
– Unknown
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Get things done with TeuxDeux
Today, I have discovered a very useful Web 2.0 application that will allow me to sort my everyday tasks. They called it TeuxDeux. It is an online to-do list application that handles your to-do list in a minimal, dead-simple interface that looks and works a lot like a paper journal. Creating an account is free. You can start immediately by adding tasks each day, or adding it on the other day....
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Urgent: Registered Nurses for Bangkok
Vejthani Hospital is one of the leading international hospitals in Thailand is currently looking for Registered Nurses who qualify the requirements as follows:
Responsibilities:
Responsible for providing nursing care and health teaching to patients
Responsible for involving the regular check ups or monitoring of the patient’s statistics and condition
Manage patients’ care programs and...
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370 Unwelcomed Passwords On Twitter
Twitter bans its members from using the account when they sign up for new accounts. Most of these new accounts are obviously using the passwords like “password”, “twitter”, or “123456”. Why are these accounts not welcome? This is not a security issue but in fact it’s very helpful for us, users of the web, to know that these passwords are the most common...
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Secrets of middle mouse button on Firefox
Just a DIY. Here are some cool tricks on Firefox by using the middle mouse button.
Pasting a text/s on forms can be done by clicking on the middle mouse button
When opening a link on a new tab, try by hovering over the link and click using the middle mouse button
When closing a tab, hover on the tab and click using the middle mouse button
You can move forward or going backwards to your page...
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VLC creators will release a video editor
There are so many video editor on Linux but most of them don’t work well. The VLC organization will release a new video editor and they called it VideoLan Movie Creator (VLMC). http://www.vlmc.org As stated on their homepage: “VLMC will be available very soon in a pre-release version for Linux, Windows and Mac, stay tuned !” Same with VLC Media Player, this is a...
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Sites I visit frequently
MaximumPC.com is formerly known as boot, is an American magazine published by Future US, and focuses on modern day PC hardware. Most content in the magazine is projected to a less business-oriented audience than many other magazines. The magazine is focused more so on home-related computing, and the relation of modern hardware toward modern software and gaming but has recently shifted focus to...
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“People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves”
– Unknown
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Firefox Private Browsing
Have you ever been tired deleting browser history, or a search history, or cookies after you use a public desktop pc? Are you afraid that Firefox might save some of your information on a public computer? Are you afraid that someone might hack your Facebook account because webforms are kept? The Firefox 3.5 has a solution to this and this feature is called Private Browsing. In a Private Browsing...
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“Everyone has the right to be stupid, but some people are abusing the privilege.”
– Unknown
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Free apps that I use
1. FireFox is a free open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Download 2. VLC is an open source, free software media player and multimedia framework written by the VideoLAN project. Download 3. OpenOffice.org is an open source software application suite available for a number of different computer operating systems. Download 4....
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Stay puft
verb
to walk tall and smile big :D
A way of encouraging others to be positive about a bad situation.
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