I ran across Door Sixteen’s mouse path and was curious to try it out myself.

To use it, download and run the jar, then leave the window open (minimizing it caused the image to be deleted) and press S with the window focused to save an image of it when you’re ready.

Here’s mine from about two hours of work.

As I illustrated in this screencast on the readability bookmarklet (a new version was released yesterday), I like to read content on the web, not advertising. Here are some other tips to make reading on the web easier when ads overrun the site or articles are split up into a ton of separate pages.

Our test site is PC World’s The 25 Worst Web Sites. Clocking in at 8 pages, one could argue PC World is vying for the 26th spot. Here it is, in all its ad-filled glory.

1. AdBlock

First off, if you don’t use AdBlock already, get it now. It will completely change (for the better) your browsing. Notice how much more content you can see without ads getting in the way.

2. Use the printable version

This works more often than not. Look for a link that says Print or Print this, or even an icon of a printer. Click it to read the complete article without ads or broken up into pages. You’ll sometimes have to cancel the print dialog.

3. TidyRead

TidyRead has a Firefox extension and a bookmarklet. What you see above is the bookmarklet version.

4. PrintWhatYouLike

This isn’t as fast as the other options, but the results are great. Using the PrintWhatYouLike Bookmarklet you can manually remove elements on the page. The easiest way is usually to isolate the content rather than removing everything around it. It’s intended for printing so you can save your precious ink, but it works reasonably well for online viewing.

I just spent 20 minutes trying to figure out why my passwordless SSH wasn’t working. I’ve done it dozens of times, but this time it wasn’t working and none of the Google results had a solution that helped.

It turns out I was pointing to the public key instead of the private key.

Short summary: Don’t point to the .pub keyfile with IdentityFile in .ssh/config.

A lot of the solutions I found were related to invalid keyfiles, but I’d generated the key with ssh-keygen on that machine, so I was fairly confident the keys were valid.

If you’re having the same problem, use

ssh -vvv

to get more debugging info.

If this saves someone else 20 minutes, my wasted time will not have been in vain.

The instructions on 3ouTube.com sound easy, but they’re harder than they need to be. To use the site manually you have to change the ‘y’ in youtube to a ‘3′. But why do it yourself when the browser can do it for you?

Here’s the bookmarklet: Download YouTube Video.

Drag the above link to your bookmarks toolbar and when you’re on the youTube video page you want to download, click it. (In Internet Explorer you’ll have to right-click the link to bookmark it).

Many women refuse to believe that men can’t hear a crying baby at night, but scientists in England have evidence to back them up.

I wonder what their wives think.

When Daddy Goes Deaf at the Daily Mall.

(via Apartment Therapy)