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Enhanced Fujita (EF) Tornado Scale

  • 13 Feb, 2006

Starting this year, the NOAA National Weather Service is upgrading the old Fujita (F) tornado rating system to Enhanced Fujita (EF). What’s this mean? I just means that they are taking more factors into how they rate a tornado. There will still be the 1-5 ratings, but tornadoes may be rated higher or lower than […]

Interesting sites of the day.

  • 12 Feb, 2006

Gollum Browser – Browse the Wikipedia in this web based browser. Come complete with keyword suggestions and a browser like interface. Kind of cool but is it really useful? 50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing – An excellent post about how you can transform the basic Firefox browser into something much more. Riffs – […]

iPox 0.4 – Buttons!

  • 10 Feb, 2006

iPox 0.4 is getting released today! I have now themed all the default Firefox toolbar icons. I’m not 100% satisfied with them, but they work pretty good for now. I even added a mouse over state to each one. Rollover the back button, or any button, and it’ll highlight blue. I haven’t really checked much […]

Butler IS Mac Productivity

  • 9 Feb, 2006

I’ve had Butler on my machine at work for a while but I really haven’t started using it until about a month ago and am I ever impressed. It has brought a whole new level of productivity to my day and I’m still learning the ins and outs. Here is a screen shot of my […]

iTunes Billion Song Countdown w/Prizes

  • 7 Feb, 2006

It’s that time again, time when iTunes counts down (or up) to a record. This time it’s for 1 billion legally downloaded songs. Better yet, Apple is giving prizes to at every 100,000th song mark. The lucky downloaders will receive a prize package featuring a black 4GB iPod nano and a $100 iTunes Music Card. […]

2006 Super Bowl XL Ads

  • 5 Feb, 2006

You can check out all the ads from the 2006 Super Bowl (XL) at iFilm. I didn’t catch to many, so I’ll be watching them online too. Keep in mind, iFilm will be extremely busy for a few days so be patient. Oh and congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers!

InLine Spell Check for Firefox

  • 3 Feb, 2006

It’s true, there is support for inline spell check in Firefox! When I upgraded Firefox yesterday my SpellBound didn’t work so I did a little searching and found the developers preview of SpellBound. Not only did it work in Firefox 1.5.0.1 but it came with a new feature; inline spell check! Now, just like Thunderbird, […]

Groundhog Day – What’s the Point?

  • 2 Feb, 2006

Today is Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow. That means that there is six more weeks of winter. But what’s the point? Actually, what I’d like to know is what happened to winter? Here in Minnesota we just ended the warmest January ever and we had more days in the 40s than we […]

Mozilla SeaMonkey 1 Review

  • 1 Feb, 2006

I’ve downloaded Mozilla SeaMonkey 1.0 and I’m using it right now.  I was all excited as I thought SeaMonkey would be Firefox+Thunderbird+Nvu all rolled into one.  Not Quite. First off, SeaMonkey has an identity crisis on it’s hands.  I started it up and it felt like 1997 with Netscape 4.7.  Seriously people, either make a […]

Writely – Social/Web Word Processing

  • 30 Jan, 2006

Recently I’ve been using a free service called Writely. Writely is a web based word processing application that is amazing. Features include: Full WYSIWYG Editing (in browsers that support it) Import abilities for Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text (.rtf) OpenOffice (.odt, .sxw), HTML, Text (.txt) Export abilities for all the above and PDF Sharing abilities […]