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Today's Fresh Blogs...| DIY: Get rid of flies with a DIY fly trap |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, Diy, Home, Household, How To, Top |
| I went home to visit my family in Iowa last week, and I'll be damned if I didn't forget how completely annoying big and buzzy flies can be. (Who knew they had virtually no flies in Los Angeles?) DIY web site Instructables provides a guide for building your very own fly trap on-the-cheap using a variety of materials, from cans, screens, jars, |
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| The Queen's Annoyances: Stalkers |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 2:54 pm |
| Tags: Stalkers, The Queen S Annoyances |
| I might be forced to switch gyms soon. There are so many fans standing outside my current gym waiting for me to appear! The crowd seems to grow larger with each passing day. I love that gym, but I don't like causing such a stir when I'm trying to work out. I think too many people know the location. If you are one of the people waiting in the |
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| Hack No! |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 5:23 pm |
| Tags: Hackers, The Queen S Annoyances |
| I have been informed that hackers are trying to invade my blog. I don't know what they are trying to post here, but I'll let you know if something comes of the warning. |
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| Hide My IP Address |
| Published: August 25, 2007, 10:49 pm |
| Tags: The Web, Hide, Address, Surfing, Annoyances, Exploited, Vulnerabilities, Noticeably, Proxies |
| spam, and other marketing annoyances on the net. These vulnerabilities are exploited by any person that has the ability to do so. That is why to hide IP address is the best thing to do. In this way, surfing the internet is anonymous and noticeably reduces security hazards.There are a number of reasons someone would to surf the web anonymously. |
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| Annoyances: YouTube will begin adding 30-second bumper ... |
| Published: September 25, 2007, 4:30 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, Google, Video, Youtube |
| YouTube will begin adding 30-second bumper ads to video clips starting in 2008, according to DirectTraffic. Guess we'll have to wait and see how intrusively it's implemented and if TubeStop can still block ads. UPDATE: As pointed out by our savvy tech gossip brothers at Valleywag, the source story is fishy at best (dated as 23/04/07... damn |
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| Featured Windows Download: Disable Automatic Windows Restart with Auto Reboot Remover |
| Published: October 9, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Operating Systems, Pet Peeves, Top, Windows, Windows Update |
| Windows only: Selectively enable or disable the automatic system restart that's applied after certain Windows Updates with freeware application Auto Reboot Remover. While I'm sure Microsoft had good intentions when they pushed out the automatic update reboot, good intentions don't make you feel any better when you return to your computer after |
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| Featured Windows Download: Keep Your Cursor Out of Your Way with MouseAway |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Keyboard, Mouse, Rsi, Top, Windows |
| Windows only: Keep your mouse cursor from obscuring your text as you type with lightweight, freeware application MouseAway. As you can see from the animated GIF, MouseAway does just one thing: monitors the proximity of your mouse pointer to your keyboard cursor and, if they're too close together, moves the mouse pointer out of the way. As is, |
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| How To: Make YouTube Better with Greasemonkey |
| Published: October 24, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, Firefox, Greasemonkey, How To, Streaming Video, Youtube |
| Programmer and blogger Jane Kasprzak rounds up five simple Greasemonkey scripts that combine to make for a much better YouTube (one might even call it a Better YouTube, *wink*). From resizing videos and stopping YouTube from autoplaying videos (a la TubeStop) to adding better titles to YouTube pages so you know what video is in an unfocused tab, |
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| Father Jack would be proud. Nobody else can be. |
| Published: November 2, 2007, 8:10 pm |
| Tags: World News Ireland Dwi Priests Drink Driving Altar, Ireland, General Weirdness, Annoyances |
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| Fix Your Home and End Keys with KeyFixer [Featured Mac Download] |
| Published: November 19, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac Os X, Top |
| Mac OS X only: The default behavior for the Home and End keys on the Mac can be very annoying—particularly for Windows-to-Mac switchers. Freeware application KeyFixer remaps your Home and End keys so they move the keyboard cursor to the beginning or end of a line, duplicating the behavior of the Home and End keys in Windows. (Cmd-Left/Right |
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| Resize Any Window with ResizableEnable [Featured Windows Download] |
| Published: November 21, 2007, 1:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, Downloads, Featured Windows Download, Window Management, Windows |
| Windows only: Resize any window on your desktop—including those windows that normally refuse to let you resize them—with freeware application ResizeEnable. Just run the system tray executable and any window—no matter how stubbornly it denied your resizing attempts in the past—should be resizable. Once resized, the contents |
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| Take a Quick Look at Your Trash [Leopard Tip] |
| Published: December 7, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, Leopard Tip, Mac Os X, Mac Os X Leopard, Quick Look |
| Leopard users: One simple annoyance when browsing the Trash on your Mac is that Finder won't allow you to open a file from the Trash. Your Mac may have good reasons for it, but this can be particularly frustrating when you're ready to empty the Trash but you want to make sure you don't actually need that ambiguously named file. That's because you |
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| [Small Annoyances] |
| Published: December 17, 2007, 2:00 pm |
| Tags: Chuck Klosterman, Esquire, Small Annoyances, T V |
| Esquire's thin January issue (just one feature! Actually, half a feature: part two of a John McCain profile!) has the world's most aggressively infuriating Charles "Chuck" Klosterman column to date.... |
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| Return the Menu Bar to Vista Explorer [Windows Vista Tip] |
| Published: January 4, 2008, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, How To, Vista, Windows, Windows Explorer, Windows Vista Tip |
| Windows Vista only: I've recently engaged on a more serious foray back into the world of Windows Vista (turns out it's not that bad), and one of the first sources of major confusion for me came the first time I tried to access the menu bar in the new Windows Explorer. Why? Because it's not there. Luckily, if you're big on the functionality |
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| Lose the Blocked Startup Programs Dialog [Annoyances] |
| Published: January 7, 2008, 11:00 pm |
| Tags: Annoyances, How To, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Vista Tip |
| If you've taken control of your startup applications with the Windows stalwart, msconfig, you may have stumbled onto a new annoyance in Vista. When you block a program's startup with msconfig, Vista displays a "Windows has blocked some startup programs" message whenever you restart the computer. The How-To Geek weblog details how to disable the |
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