Commodore64
Front-end Web Dev by trade, tinkerer by nature. I have a passion for HTML and CSS, and most of all bridging the gap between computer and human.
Homepage: http://www.doodlerblog.com
Posts by Commodore64
Gmail updates its chat interface – smoother, cleaner chat window…
Jun 9th
Gmail's new chat window
Hey Boys and Girls,
Commodore 64 here to give a quick heads up about Gmail. Seems they’ve upgraded their chat window to look smoother and cleaner than ever. Hopefully it will be more compliant.
I’ve been using gmail for a while, and so has my wife. In her place of work, they haven’t gotten around to updating their browsers, so she is stuck using good old IE6, which doesnt offer many options along the lines of gmail chat. Most of the features are disabled, save for actually chatting.
My hope is that they’ve given her some more features to play with…
In the meantime, i just thought it interesting to point out this slight facelift on the good old Gmail chat box.
Oh and by the way, Gmail has added some animated emoticons as well, namely the rocker dude emoticon, which you can get by typing the following characters:
\m/ x-( \m/
-enjoy
Commodore 64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on),8,1
AskTheAdmin Reviews – the next hilarious techno-prank – the TV Poltergeist!
Apr 15th
ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses
Prank Powder Decepti-Candy – Deviously delicious candy
Four tubes of colorful powder candy. Such pretty names, too, like Sweet Pixie Dust and Ultimate Unicorn Sprinkles. Completely harmless sounding so anyone will gladly eat them. Then they will learn the dark secret. First, the colors don’t match the flavors (red is lemonade, yellow is cherry, etc.). But that’s not all. One is super sour, one foams in your mouth, one stains your mouth a color, and one does all three. Why? Because candy is dandy and pranky is swanky. Oh, and they taste great too, so that part isn’t a prank (but it may stop folks from hitting you in revenge, so it’s good).
http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/wacky-edibles/d799/
IE6 pronounced dead at the scene, “mourners” flood in to join the festivities…
Feb 24th
Hors D'ouvres will be served near the IE6 dartboard?
IE6 will be barely missed by us here at AskTheAdmin. We’ve had bad times, and we’ve had worse times with our old frienemy Internet Explorer 6. Rest in pieces you old coot.
Commodore 64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on) ,8,1
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Let Me Google That For You
Feb 17th
Hey folks,
Have you ever been completely annoyed by people asking you questions that they could have totally answered on their own?
Most people don’t realize that a well formed web query is just as good as asking the right person the right question at the right time. Google, for most people, is just that person. Some of the more complicated queries actually do warrant your newb friends to ask you for a good set of query terms, even using the more advanced search modifiers.
But most of the questions I have to field during my day to day are questions that could have been easily answered, had the person asking put some thought or effort into it. Questions such as “what’s the url for ask the admin?”
We all know that’s a stupid question. Ask The Admin prides itself on being very search engine friendly, especially when looking for the site itself!
Enter Let Me Google That For You, or more easily LMGTFY.com. This nifty little service allows you to perform the search for your friend or colleague who just cant form the words together themselves. But instead of giving your dear friend a fish, so to speak, you’re actually giving your friend a fishing pole. You’re basically telling them, “You could have googled this yourself, look how simple it could have been for you. You could have completely avoided bothering me during my busy day.”
So, to answer the question above “What’s the url for Ask The Admin?”
browsing over to http://lmgtfy.com/?q=asktheadmin.com yields a search page resembling googles.
Except now, when you search , it provides you a tinyurl, which you can send back to your inquisitive friend rather than the url of the actual search result.
Click to see sample results here
Nifty right?
-enjoy
Commodore64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on,) ,8,1
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AtA’s Funny Comic Moment
Feb 15th
I think that also means "Kanji" in Jersey Shore-speak
Very, very funny.
-enjoy
Commodore64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on) ,8,1
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Is this the new I-Pad killer? Lenovo Ideapad Hybrid – Why didn’t Apple think of this?
Feb 15th
I-Pad Killer? Image courtesy: Engadget.com
Hello Boys and Girls,
It seems other companies aside from Apple are putting their thinking caps on and breaking all kinds of molds. There was a mold. Apple didn’t exactly break the mold for tablets, as shown in this nifty diagram. All they did was scale it up. An overgrown cellphone won’t last very long in today’s market.
Enter Lenovo.
From the looks of it, Lenovo has broken a mold. They have combined two mainstays of the hardware industry; tablets and netbooks, and combined them into this one nifty unit that has a detachable, wireless touchscreen, full size (by today’s standards) keyboard and a FULL OS!
The Lenovo name, to me at least, suggests some premium price point. But I know for a fact that other companies will follow suit. Maybe they won;t have detachable screens like this Hybrid Lenovo U1 pictured, but I’d be happy enough for a $400 tablet with a full OS. Wouldn’t you?
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Commodore64 (the one you used to play Bruce Lee on) ,8,1
