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My Live Stream, Now on FriendFeed

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Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago at 7:43 pm. 0 comments

Not too long ago, I dumped Tumblr for FriendFeed as my live stream. I am going to integrate it to this site eventually, but for now you can subscribe to the RSS feed, or see it here.

What’s on my FriendFeed:

Posts from this blog.
Flickr updates, which I have removed from this site’ s feed. Most of my photos don’t get posted on this blog, so you catch them from the FriendFeed.
YouTube videos I fav’d.
Google Reader shared items.
Videos uploaded to vimeo (rarely used now, since Flickr supports videos).
Diggs and Reddits.
LinkIn updates, Twitter brain farts and Pownce updates (not used at all).
My bookmarks on del.icio.us. I don’t bookmark with my browser.

See, Tumblr’ s five feed limit just can’t handle my needs. :)

Firefox3 Annoynce: SafeBrowsing

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Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 1:28 am. 3 comments

Firefox just blocked me from visiting Cool OSX Apps, a perfectly legit site.

The two buttons on the screen, neither of them allowed me to bypass the check and go to the site. LAME1.

Apparently Firefox 3 has a built-in safe-browsing feature, which queries the StopBadWare.org DB, and it is turned on by default. LAME2. For some ridiculous reason, Cool OSX Apps is blacklisted. LAME3.

I could not find the option to turn it off in the settings dialog. LAME4. To be fair, I didn’t look hard enough. Who needs a dialog, when there is “about:config”?

Type in “about:config” in the address bar. Search for safebrowsing, set the two bolded entries (see screenshot) to false.

While you are at it, turn off safebrowsing for google toolbar as well.

Tags: Firefox

Photoshop Express Webapp

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Posted 3 months ago at 12:58 pm. 0 comments

Photoshop Express Webapp, originally uploaded by siuyee.com.

Compare to Piknik and A.viary’s Phoenix, Photoshop Express seems to be the best online photo editing app I have seen so far. The idea of uploading a photo and editing it online is still impractical to me. Piknik, on the other hand, is integrated into Flickr, so it has its advantage. Perhaps Photoshop Express is just a showcase for Adobe Flex, which I think will become the de facto standard for RIA. (At least until all babies get implanted with Microsoft Silverlight when they are born.)

Tags: Adobe, Flex, Photoshop, RIA

Project 366 2008 Feb 23 54/366

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Posted 4 months, 1 week ago at 10:45 pm. 0 comments

Project 366 2008 Feb 23 54/366, originally uploaded by siuyee.com.

My purplechicken vaio is now a web-app enhanced paperweight with tons of social networking features.
Go to Flickr page to see notes on the icons.

gOS: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOS_Rocket_%28Linux_distribution%29

Tags: gOS, Linux, Photos, Project 366 2008, Purplechicken

Project 366 2008 Jan 27 27/366

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Posted 5 months, 1 week ago at 8:56 pm. 0 comments

Project 366 2008 Jan 27 27/366, originally uploaded by siuyee.com.

Here is another proof OLPC is a toy developed by geeks for the geeks. It comes with TutleArt, a visual programming tool based on LOGO (the first language I learned). Look how sophisticated those building blocks are, compared to the old-skool LOGO. Is this really for kids?