Facebook acquisition, Google decline or Microsoft social network: everybody is making predictions for 2008. Twitter user predictions08 tracks them. Could be fun and interesting for the next few days.
The World of Hello World: some guy has put together a map of programming languages and rough locations in the world where they were created. Each language comes with its mandatory "Hello World" example. Very cool :)
Remove All Facebook Ads: the only Greasemonkey script for Facebook you'll really need. No more adds in pages and sidebar, or "sponsored" items in news feed.
Gmail Labels: Look, It’s Colorful!
Gmail implemented a very cool feature (or at least it was recently added to my account) in the form of colored labels. You can assign each label a color from a selection, and I find this really handy when you're scanning through all your unread mails at once. I like it. Too bad I'm still receiving various mails that were…
Facebook Prettier Profile URL
One of the lesser advertised and known feature of Facebook is that you can link to a prettier profile URL than the default and rather lame profile.php?id=123456789. For instance, my profile URL is either: Ozh (full profile, sucky URL) or Ozh (short profile public page, slightly less sucky URL). From an SEO perspective it does not change a lot since…
Deactivate Your Spam Shields For One Day ?
Some dude is going to deactivate his spam protection (Akismet) for one day, on December 15th, and the idea is actually starting to spread. What a pointless idea… I mean, everyone knows how many spam they're getting each day: Akismet as a WordPress plugin comes with a spam counter. I know I get between 100 and 300 spams every single…
What's wrong with GMail these days? I seem to receive mails hours after they've been sent, and I'm pretty sure I've missed quite a few.
Where the Hell is my Perfect MP3 Player ?
Christmas is approaching and I'm thinking a bit about what Santa could bring to me. One gadget I still miss because I've never found the perfect one is an MP3 player. Every time I read reviews, I just cannot understand why every single product seems to miss an essential feature or comes with a couple of bloated concept I don't…
(Almost) Nice Captcha
In the best case scenario, captchas annoy me. In most cases, I can't even read them properly and they make me fill twice some registration form. In some too frequent cases, when I fail a couple of times I get fed up and don't even register with the site they're supposed to protect (And in every single case, I am…