This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time.
Man Babies has pictures of a man and a baby with swapped heads. From the textual description you might think it’s disturbing and wrong, but man are some of them funny.
Here are a few examples.
(via Techcrunch)
Lifehacker posted about a tiny but useful feature of Windows 7 – a keyboard shortcut to create a new folder.
On Windows XP, it’s still missing. In the past I’ve always used a right click with wf. It gets the job done but it uses the mouse, which is slow. Now that Microsoft has given this a more or less official shortcut, I decided to emulate it on XP with AutoHotKey.
It’s extremely simple and after using it I wonder why I didn’t do it sooner.
Here’s the AutoHotKey code to make the magic happen.
^+n::send +{F10}wf
I’ve been running a portable version of Firefox 3.5 b99 (a preview release) to see what the excitement was about. I was a little disappointed. Aside from a few very minor cosmetic changes, it looks the same as 3.0.x.
I didn’t do a formal speed analysis, but it felt like it loaded pages a little faster, especially Google’s AJAX-heavy sites like Google Calendar, Gmail and Google Maps. RAM consumption was about the same as 3.0.x and there aren’t any immediately obvious new features. The majority of the changes are under the hood, as illustrated by this demo given to the Techcrunch folks. The demo has a great wow-factor, but it doesn’t affect my day to day use of Firefox.
I installed the nightly tester tools in order to install a few add-ons, but the core ones I use (mainly Adblock Plus and XMarks) were already compatible.
After a few days of running 3.5, I’m not inclined to jump onto this release early. The new features aren’t enough to warrant dealing with bugs and instability.
The default clipboard handling of Windows is simple. It can only hold one item. This works, but can be frustrating when you’re copying and pasting a lot. To give you more flexibility, there’s a whole class of clipboard management programs out there that give you more room on your clipboard. Everything behaves normally for the standard use case of copying and pasting but instead of storing one item, they’ll store a configurable amount.
I just started using them and have found I don’t use the clipboard history all too often, but I really appreciate it when I want to use it.
The best clipboard manager I found out of a half dozen that I tested is lightweight, configurable and simple to use. It’s called ClipX. Another benefit of ClipX is that it supports plugins to extend its functionality.
Once installed it puts a little tray icon on the task bar. When you want to access other items from the clipboard, hit the shortcut or use the taskbar icon and select from the list you see.
It’s simple to use and can really boost your productivity.
Two other popular clipboard managers to try are Arsclip and ClipGuru.
If you’re protective of your username and use Facebook, listen up.
The Facebook blog has spoken.
Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You’ll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.
On your mark, get set, go!
(Hat tip to Anil)
In other news, as of today all over-the-air broadcast television will be digital.
