You are currently browsing the archives for the Tech category.

My Live Stream, Now on FriendFeed

Filed under: Tech

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

Filed under: Tech

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.

Cool OSX Apps Blocked

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:

Photoshop Express Webapp

Filed under: Tech

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: , , ,

Project 366 2008 Feb 23 54/366

Filed under: Artsy, Tech

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: , , , ,

Project 366 2008 Jan 27 27/366

Filed under: Artsy, Tech

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?

Tags: , ,

Project 366 2008 Jan 25 25/366

Filed under: Artsy, Tech

Posted 5 months, 1 week ago at 10:36 pm. 1 comment



Project 366 2008 Jan 25 25/366, originally uploaded by siuyee.com.

iSight taking a picture of OLPC taking a picture of iSight taking…

Tags: , ,

Project 366 2008 Jan 12 12/366

Filed under: Artsy, Tech

Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago at 10:17 pm. 0 comments



Project 366 2008 Jan 12 21/366, originally uploaded by siuyee.com.

Illusion.

(It’s a great 802.11N router, BTW.)

Tags: ,