Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.#550 Google Calendar Hack -- Once your mobile phone number is validated by Calendar, you can request a daily agenda whenever you need it by texting the message day to 48368 (GVENT). Immediately after sending, you’ll receive a text message with your agenda of events for that day. Each event includes name, time, and location information. (HT: stopdesign
#551 Firefox CheatSheet -- Leslie Franke has put together an extremely useful cheatsheet for Firefox.
#552 Word Hack -- To save or close all Word documents at once: Hold SHIFT, Click File menu, Select either Save All or Select All. (HT: Tech Recipes)
#553 Know Your Fallacies -- Denying the correlative -- is the opposite of the false dilemma, where an attempt is made at introducing alternatives where there are none. (Example: "You say that you have shown that my client must have stolen the money, because no-one else had the opportunity to do so. But what if the money never existed?" (Should it be proven that the money never existed, nobody would be accused of the crime of stealing it. However, assuming it's known the money was there, questioning its existence as an alternative to whether a particular person was the thief or not is fallacious.))
#554 Google School -- Google's new U.S. Government Search page indexes U.S. Federal, state, and local government web sites, giving you easy access to all the information therein from a single Google search box. (HT: LifeHacker)
#555 HowTo -- Build your own intercom or walkie talkie out of two old cordless phone.
#556 Kitchen Hack -- How to clean a microwave: First, wipe out any excess crumbs. Then fill a microwave-safe bowl with about 1-2 cups of water. Add some lemon juice, or put in half a piece of fresh cut lemon (squeezing some juice out first) into the bowl.
Microwave until the water is boiling then let it sit for a few minutes to let the steam penetrate the interior. The steam from the water will loosen food particles, and the lemon will add a fresh smell. Carefully remove the bowl and interior tray. Wipe down the interior with a damp cloth, wash the tray in the sink with dish soap, dry, and then return to microwave. (HT: apartment therapy: los angeles)
#557 SoYouWanna -- Throw a summer party.
#558 PDF Hack -- Speed up PDF loading with Adobe Acrobat by disabling unneeded plugins:
1. Install the latest version of Adobe Acrobat
2. Browse to the plugins folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins
3. Create a new folder named "Optional"
4. Move all files from the plug_ins folder to Optional, except EWH32.api, print*.api, and Search*.api
Making the plugins optional will significantly decrease the loadtime of your PDF documents. (HT: DWTIPS)
#559 Writer's Toolkit -- #46: Storytellers, Start Your Engines
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"Making the plugins optional will significantly _increase_ the loadtime of your PDF documents"
And I thought the idea was the *reduce* the load time! Silly me! ;o)
posted on 06.28.2006 3:20 AM2
Speed up PDF loading substantially with the free FoxIt Reader...in place of Adobe Reader
posted on 06.28.2006 9:15 PM