Category: hacks + do it yourself

Due to posting to multiple accounts (personal and being part of our work account) in Twitter; it’s extremely handy to know the available Twitter shortcuts… ON: turns phone notifications on…

Shaved my face for the first time in 3 years I’m a shavin’ hater — every photo of me for the past 3-4 years – I have some stubble. This…

Somehow I had completely missed this in the WP 2.5 Upgrade; You can now have custom CSS colors for each users WP-Admin panel. I was wondering if anyone will come…

Second Update: The latest MBP firmware seems to have solved my problems completely. Ars Technica ‘officially’ details the problem — too bad Apple won’t give more details on what this…

After 8 months of using TIVO to replace our antiquated air-time based TV watching; I’l never go back to TV – I would prefer to stop watching all together. This…

Finally! First things first; Gotta email myself the plot of LOST back to September 2005. Google Custom Time

Very cool applet that graphs out the structure of an HTML page on a site. Stevey.com (homepage) is above. http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsteveycom.mystagingwebsite.com

(click here for large version of screenshot above) Finally Safari 3.1 (released on 08/03/18) is offering some built in web developer tools that are accessible through a checkbox in the…

Click the photo above and look deep into it for a secret message. (hint: it’s an autostereogram)

Reading this Lifehacker Post about traveling with a laptop; ran into this very smart system/hack to prevent hotel guests from leaving the lights on and wasting energy… “The one electricity…

Made me laugh — If you get what’s going on here; 2 HTML nerd strikes against ya! “Plus a few missing ones; c-o-l-o-r.net/C0FFEE, c-o-l-o-r.net/DECAFF, c-o-l-o-r.net/CABB1E” View full size

I’m a huge fan of “shifting”, which can be hard to explain to some people who aren’t as tech savy as some of us. This little video from some Canadian…

You like torrent’s for TV shows and other stuff. You recently found it’s been slower than usual. Is this you and you’re wondering why? Turns out almost all Canadian ISP’s…

Tivo is recording something Update: TIVO finally in Canada!: Read the TIVO Canada Promo Piece Future Shop in Canada is now selling 2 TIVO products; a Series 2 80 Hour…

</bush> With politics heating up in the states, I can’t help but think that things might change. I’m no fan, nor have any kind of faith that any of the…