Just realized how much distraction the dock, the desktop clutter (icons and the wallpaper) and the menu bar can cause. The weekend got a lot more productive with all that taken care of with little help from Menushade (Hides the menu bar) & Backdrop (hides the desktop icons and fills the background with a color [...]
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If you have a few active friends on Facebook and you have email notifications turned on, you are probably familiar with the phrase “Facebook is f***ing spamming me” .
Long story short, I try to practice Inbox Zero and having Facebook send me emails on every comment, tag added, tag removed, friend added, friend removed and [...]
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Tagged: facebook, geek_talk, web_service
After a few dozen invitations and daily dozes of “come on already” by the beloved early adopters, I have finally boarded the Facebook wagon. As much as I would like to debate that I have been pushed in to it by forces beyond my control, the experience actually hasn’t been too bad. Took me a [...]
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Bit.ly seems to be the the favored URL shortening service these days on the blogging and micro blogging arena (aka twitter). Here’s what makes Bit.ly stand out -
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Tagged: geek_talk, twitter, web_service
All right so this morning I set my IM status to “Just found Nirvana today” and it caused a stir. I am not kidding, it really did. There’s something about people. They are really nice, mostly at least. They seem to notice all the weird things you do, but they don’t say a thing. They [...]
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As a proud iPhone owner, it was probably just a matter of time before amitabhjotwani.com became iPhone friendly. I am happy to announce that it now is.
And here’s what it looks like on the iPhone -
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Came across this post talking about a Firefox extension that helps people like you and me control our surfing appetite.
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“You sit down on the computer to complete that sales report which is extremely urgent but you are distracted by an email from a colleague asking you to check the “funniest video” ever posted on [...]
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I can finally say good bye to Firefox on my Mac. One of the main reasons I had still not been able to give up on Firefox was it’s wonderful and cool Search bar which sat at the bottom and let you search, highlight and then cycle through the occurrences of the word you searched [...]
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“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one!” – Bill Gates
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