Monday, January 22, 2007

Case Flashy Flashers Inc

Googling Google Web Sharing shortcut

I do every day: I get to a website that I find interesting, copy the URL from the address bar, the stick in an email and sent it to my buddy in office saying that the "look at this ". This Thus, he only has to click to see what I teach.

But every time I get to places that I did not get that easy. Why? To not go into technicalities, let me cite an example.

Go to page RAE. Note that the URL is http://www.rae.es/ . Suppose we want to do a search on your dictionary. For this, we go to it by clicking on the first link, called "Dictionary of the English language." Ponte


10 if your powers of observation are so acute as to have noticed already that this article I could link the homepage of the SAR, but not I have done that the outcome of this click on link.

Right now you should have your browser's website of the English Language Dictionary, which can do the searches we wanted. A very interesting website we would like to add to your bookmarks or favorites to share with our friends and colleagues. But have you noticed in the URL? 's the same! again be: http://www.rae.es/

So, at first glance, this forces us to make it this direction that we add to our bookmarks and share it with our friends. In the first case, we follow the route of clicks every time we want to get the dictionary. In the second case, we follow the URL of the mail with detailed instructions for the shift buddy can easily find the destination that you want to lead.

Then I tell you cause and solution of these joyous experiences with some webmasters have seen fit to offer us.


The Bad

The blame for this is a technique the antediluvian to divide a web page into pieces, usually with the good intention of putting the navigation controls (menus, buttons or links) one of them and contained in the other. These pieces are often called in frames English or frames in the mother tongue of Our Lady of the Red . And, although this technique fulfilled its role in its day, today is only applicable in sites primitive, among other things that are a toothache for visitors, as explained in the example.

How to know if we are in such a site? If you are a entendidillo of those who are managed with HTML already know: they check the source and look for the label \u0026lt;FRAME> . If, however, you do not read the labels more than the clothes, you will not be forced to look at the URLs that never change and that you can use be your best friend: FireFox!


The Buenos

You know that this accounts computesas activities with good friends: Google, the right mouse button, FireFox ... In particular the latter two make a great partner when you need to break the impasse of frames. When you're in a framed page, right click on things that interest you from the context menu you will find a dropdown option called "this frame ->". When you deploy you will find several options that will solve your problems with frames.

Thus FireFox restored peace to the Internet, and unevolved could still use their frames and visitors could use their pages without difficulty, and they were all happily ever after.


Everyone? According to my statistics, 2 / 3 visitors of this blog are happy staying true to the browser that came installed with their operating system. Things to love!

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Ikusa Otome Valkyrie 2 Oav

FireFox FireFox search

spoke the other day John Doe, a great friend and partner in The Community one of those things things to fall in love with FireFox : The possibility not only of direct searches in several other search, but also to add new other to our favorite search engines all . Yesterday I spoke to David Charro, a great friend and colleague, another of those things you fall in love with FireFox : The possibility of direct search engine you want by using what FireFox called keywords.

Let's see how this works with a practical example. Suppose you usually a page you're looking foo, and I like not having to navigate to it whenever you want to search. Let this be, for example, the form in the dictionary of the English Royal Academy of Language. To access it go to your homepage ( http://www.rae.es ) and click on the link "Dictionary of the English language."

Now, to perform a search, you would touch typing in the search word in the text box. Well, you have to do is press the right button on it, ie contextual menu associated with it. Choose the option called "Add a Keyword" or something similar. You will see a dialog box used to create a new bookmark (also known as favorites ). Give the name you want and create it wherever you want. What matters is the keyword . Write something in this area meaningful and comfortable, for example rae.

From this moment, when you type in the address bar of FireFox mipalabrita rae, FireFox will show the result of searching mipalabrita in the dictionary of the RAE. Nice, right? And if you love

research on all things, open the bookmark manager and check out the "Quick Search" probably there are examples of how the thingy is rula.

Monday, January 1, 2007

Dum Dum Candy Phrases

of primitive art in the computer age itself

There was a time when a person who seemed to be absorbed, working at his typewriter, it really did was painstakingly draw a deer using only two keys: the x and o. This noble Art has survived to this day. If you do not know what I'm talking about, I recommend you read the article ASCII art in Wikipedia .

Have you already read the article?

(Reread the previous question until the answer is "YES".

Well, then, as is there, it's ASCII has serious applications, we must not ignore or forget.

During the race space, one of the problems faced by the NASA scientists was to find a pen to write in zero gravity, because this is necessary so that ink can flow from a common pen. After a decade of research, which cost more than eight million dollars, the engineers were ready a pen that writes in zero gravity not only but also in a wide range of temperatures, submerged or under extreme pressure. The Russians, meanwhile, have equipped their astronauts with a graphite pencil.

Beyond the simplicity of solutions that can provide us with ASCII art, ASCII art which gives us an excellent method for waste time making nice things . So if the paper birds and will not fill, or if you've built with sticks all the remarkable sights of the world, or do not have to use public transport daily, you might be a few hours of entertainment you do not know how to fill. You can try this. But if you reach the end you start converting to ASCII images your vacation photos or your entire collection of video movies, then look háztelo urgently!

If, however, these little things you think are cool but do not you want to kill to get something like this:

 
____ ____ ____ ___ ___ __ _____
(_ \\ / __) / __) (_) ( ___)(_ _) / __ \\
)___/( (__ \__ \ )(_)( )__) _)(_ /(__)\
(__) \___)(___/(_____)(__) (____)(__)(__)
____ ____ ____ ____ ___ ____ __
(_ _)( ___) ( _ \( ___)/ __)( ___) /__\
)( )__) )(_) ))__) \__ \ )__) /(__)\
(__) (____) (____/(____)(___/(____)(__)(__)
____ ____ __ ____ ____ ___ ___ ___ ___
( ___)( ___)( ) (_ _)(_ ) (__ \ / _ \ / _ \(__ )
)__) )__) )(__ _)(_ / /_ / _/( (_) )( (_) )/ /
(__) (____)(____)(____)(____) (____) \\ ___ / \\ ___/(_/

Then you can use one of the many ASCII editors you have at your disposal.

Another resource is the ASCII generator with which, via web, you can convert a few words, as in the example above. It's free, and has a large group of different sources you can use. If you want to see how the result would be with them all, without having to go testing at a time, chosen as the source called "_all fonts with your text_." Testing the effect of the other options. The handling is very simple. That yes, say goodbye to accents and the like (sigh).

Oh, and if all esto del arte ASCII es nuevo para ti, voy a darte dos malas noticias más:

  • Una fuente de ancho variable destruirá tus obras de arte.
  • Los saltos de línea inesperados destruirán tus obras de arte.

Dicho lo cual, si te atreves a probar...

                                                                       
_ _ we only have two options:

Putting ourselves to clean the hard drive (virtual plan, I mean)

Larger storage capacities (ie, buy another hard drive)

.

So we better before you begin these tasks, we got one of those essential programs
that tell us how we spent our disk space hard and help us clean

. I will recommend a couple of them. TreeSize Free

  1. recommend this program for a simple reason of historical gratitude: for years this faithful friend I was helping in the cleaning of hard disks. You can get it here:
  2. http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/

Eye! TreeSize Free is freeware
: not cost you a euro, but you should go spend declining his proposals to the professional version (fee), or spend it, of course. This is the main reason that once I decided to try WinDirStat .

WinDirStat

This is the program I use now. You can get it here:

http://windirstat.info

On that page (in English) find typical: a brief description of program features, the most important links, blah, blah, blah.

The program works well and the interface is very simple. It will give the possibility to tell which of the units in your computer you want to watch, or tell you look just a folder (and its descendants). Here's your report with files, folders, sizes, types, etc, etc. But the coolest thing is WinDirStat Treemap . In this view, which shows you the friend is a graphical representation of the case, each file as a drawing rectangles. The size of the rectangles indicates you

file size. The color of the rectangles indicates you

file type. And, of course, each folder is another rectangle formed by the rectangles corresponding to the files it contains. Thus, you can get

idea at a glance what you have on your hard drive

, ie can "see" .

If I get to tell the wonders of this view and its interaction with the "traditional", would not end. So only I recommend you try it for a while and you play with them. All an invention, I assure you.

The program has a good support, though in English (sigh). But if you care much about the language will give you good news: the program (its interface) is translated into several languages \u200b\u200band, of course, you can enjoy it in English. For installing the news is also excellent: no need. And finally, most importantly the price. WinDirStat is a open source program distributed under a GPL license. Again, for those who do not yet know what it means to roll this, the in Christian better than free.