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Automatically adjust color temperature of display based on time of day # f.lux "makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again. Tell f.lux what kind of lighting you have, and where you live. Then forget about it. F.lux will do the rest, automatically." Certainly seems to make backlit LCDs easier on the eyes in my testing. This should hold me over until Pixel Qi releases their DIY kit. Windows, Mac, and Linux versions available. /misc | Mar 12, 2010 Automatically insert furigana / ruby / rubi readings in Firefox #Furigana Injector looks up the readings for kanji words and inserts them as furigana. Optionally install XHTML Ruby Support for rendering furigana above text instead of inline. /misc | Mar 07, 2010 Gitso (remote support for Windows, Linux, OS X) updated to 0.6 #Aaron Gerber kindly informs us of an update to the insanely awesome, open source, cross-platform remote support app that he and Derek Buranen (along with several other contributors) have continued to craft over the past several years, Gitso:
/misc | Feb 21, 2010 Keynes is whack, yo. #
/misc | Jan 30, 2010 Dell MFP 3115cn network scanning error: Network Not Ready 016-790 #When connected to a network, the Dell 3115cn can send scans to a SMB share or FTP server. The setup process could be clearer, as evidenced by posts like these:
/misc | Jan 23, 2010 Google does the right thing #A new approach to China: "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China." UPDATE: Apparently this was all talk, no walk: Google co-founder: Maybe we'll stay in China after all - A month after storming the moral high-ground over China's hacking activities, Sergey Brin has declared the firm is happy to get off its high horse and kick its heels in the country a little longer. /misc | Jan 13, 2010 Two newly-added floppy OSes #
/misc | Dec 31, 2009 Black screen with many white exclamation points / marks on boot... #was due to a failing EVGA e-GeForce 8800GT video card. Pulled the card and exclamation points were gone for good. ![]() Could not find any definitive information or solution on the web, though there were a few similar complaints:
/misc | Dec 29, 2009 Downloading DjVu files from Internet Archive (archive.org) #Clicking DjVu book links on archive.org opens them in a Java applet within the web browser, with no option to save. Right clicking and "saving link as..." results in a tiny HTML file being downloaded instead. Here's how to download the actual DjVu file (we'll use H.G. Wells' The wonderful visit in this example):
/misc | Dec 27, 2009 Reading HTML files on a Kindle #
/misc | Dec 27, 2009 |
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