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change firefox’s saved passwords

Awesome little page over at snarfed.org reveals how to get at firefox’s saved passwords. I love the CMS used on that site, too. Looks like it might be a custom job.

Yahoo Ad Network

Yahoo’s answer to AdSense. Let’s see if they accept my beta application.

Evolution of the Mighty Mouse: 1985-2005

I punched “Apple Mighty Mouse” into Google and came up with a cool image that I thought I’d combine with Apple’s new Mighty Mouse to create a comparison of then and now: Yesterday’s mouse had one button. Today’s mouse has a scroll ball, touch-sensitive top-shell, force-sensing side buttons, optical tracking… oh, yeah, and two buttons….Continue Reading…

Apple finally begins to accept that dual-button mice are superior

A single button mouse is one of the most ridiculous things that Apple still holds to. As if it makes the computer “easier to use.” Do people only have one finger? (My apologies if you do.) Two button mice make more sense. Two buttons increases overall productivity by 30%. (80% of statistics are made up.)…Continue Reading…

New Windows XP Install

So I’ve installed Windows XP Home Edition on my computer. It’s not really a reinstall because I didn’t delete my old copy. I resized the original NTFS partition with PartitionMagic 8.0 and created a new 45 GB NTFS partition for my new Windows install. It’s nice and fast — and it got most of the…Continue Reading…

IPB 1.3 final to 2.0.4 trial upgrade

I’ve decided to write about some of the little boring things I do on the computer. I probably make them sound much more interesting than they actually are, however. So… I got a complaint from someone whose Invision Plus forum apparently has some corrupt tables, and so I downloaded his database and I’m converting it…Continue Reading…