#450 Cell Phone Hack -- Online payment service PayPal has launched a new mobile service that lets you send money via cell phone. Once you activate your SMS-enabled phone, text a message to 729725 (PAYPAL) with the amount and recipient’s phone number. For example, “send 5 to 4150001234.” Alternately you can make a voice call to PayPal at 1-800-4PAYPAL, enter your PIN then follow the instructions to enter amount and the recipient’s cell phone. (HT: LifeHacker)
#451 Design Hack -- Wonder which font will look best on your website? Online app Typetester lets you input sample text and then provides examples of how it looks in various fonts and sizes for comparison.
#452 Photoshop Hack -- If you click and hold your mouse with the eyedropper tool on the canvas, you can drag it outside of the canvas to select any color on your screen (your desktop, a website page, etc.). The Avalonstar blog has posted a brief video showing how this works.
#453 Know Your Fallacies -- Tu quoque -- (Latin for "You, too" or "You, also") is a line of one's defensive argument based on the concept that the adversary party also engages (or has engaged in the past) in the act for which one is accused by that party.
#454 Google School -- A link anchor is the descriptive text of a link. For example, the link anchor in the HTML code <a href="http://www.evangelicaloutpost.com">my blog</a> is "my blog." To search link anchors in Google use inanchor:"my blog"
#455 HowTo -- Set up a home wireless network.
#456 Laundry Tip -- According to The Vinegar Institute, Cotton and wool blankets become soft, fluffy and free of soap odor if 2 cups of white distilled vinegar are added to the rinse cycle of the wash. (HT: LifeHacker)
#457 SoYouWanna -- Avoid common writing errors.
#458 iTunes Hack -- To adjust the volume on individual tracks, click on the selected track and press Ctrl+I (or Cmd+I if you’re on a Mac). When the song properties window appears, click on the “Options” tab and then slide the volume adjustment to the right. Test out your track’s new volume level and if necessary, go back and re-adjust the slider. When you click OK, iTunes will save the volume adjustment level and your previously troublesome track will playback at a more acceptable volume. (HT: LifeHacker)
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Hey Joe, you have a typo in 451 (the word "them").
Big Chris
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Joe,
To quoque need not be fallacious. It is simply the charge that a certain objection leveled at one's view is just as much applicable to one's opponents' view. Of course one cannot infer from this that one's view is preferable; but if this is not done, it seems to me a perfectly legitimate argumentative move. The Wikipedia article is simply wrong when it says that tu quoque is a species of ad hominem. Tu quoque is directed not at the man (or woman) but rather at the view he holds.
Franklin
posted on 03.29.2006 9:14 AM