Disqus - Friends of cristi

Re: Cristi.

NeedyHeart — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:42:24 -0000

Only travellers here we are....and this is the stiff and sinuous way to the end of our short trip...why did we make so many ''crashes'' on it...?...

Re: Quicker Downloads in Firefox

George M. — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:03:14 -0000

I personally find it easier to Alt-click the link.
It also bypasses the “Save as..” box, but without all that dragging and dropping (and without an extra button on the tool bar).

Re: 7 Email Visualizations for Thunderbird

George M. — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:47:05 -0000

One of the Google Reader engineers, Mihai Parparita, has tried something similar: see "Mail Trends" (http://blog.persistent.info...

Re: Hotmail knocks out GMail to second position

George M. — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 09:53:00 -0000

Re: Hotmail knocks out GMail to second position

George M. — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:01:00 -0000

None of this points make Hotmail more compelling than Gmail for me:
> I hate pane, too much scrolling around! I always open the whole message to see it all at once. As an added bonus, Gmail provides the conversation based threading, that makes it much more easy to follow the discussion back to the beginning.
> Gmail recently made changes to the contact management to address the issue of over-flooding with one-time contacts.
> The newer version of Gmail is much faster than before.
> Labels are more flexible than folders and I don't understand why everyone thinks folders are more easy to use. How will you find an e-mail when you have dozens of folders and don't remember where you put it?

Re: Wow! All Gmail Users Are Given Two Separate Email Addresses

George M. — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:21:57 -0000

@Virginia Anderson: You can set up filters to send e-mails from certain senders directly to trash.

Re: One Button for Both Stop and Reload in Firefox

George M. — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:01:25 -0000

the code from the stylish script can be used directly in the "userchrome.css" file, without installing any extensions.

#stop-button[disabled="true"] { display:none; }
#stop-button:not([disabled]) + #reload-button { display:none; }

Re: Most Innovative Regions of the World

George M. — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:23:06 -0000

since the graph is based on the number of US patents, it might be a little biased.

Re: Use Any Internet Browser on your Computer Without Installation

George M. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:48:24 -0000

are they mentioning anything about privacy / TOS?
or do they silently collect user data?

Re: Twitter Is Deleting Tweets Without Notice

George M. — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:21:50 -0000

I noticed the same problem last week, my updates from the last month or so disappeared.
I haven't checked yet to see if they are back.

Re: How to Restore Last Session in Google Chrome

George M. — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:53:33 -0000

In version 2, there is a new interface option on the new tab to restore closed windows.
It is next to the recently closed tabs and looks like a group of tabs enclosed in parenthesis.

Re: Pidgin-Webkit Plugin: Adium Conversation Styles for Pidgin

George M. — Sat, 30 May 2009 09:34:13 -0000

do you know if anything similar available for windows?

Re: Windows 7 To Be Shipped Without Internet Explorer in EU

George M. — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:03:51 -0000

I think in Europe there are sufficient people aware of alternative browsers, especially Firefox.
Still, I find it odd that the decision is up to the manufacturers and not the end users.

Re: Most Popular Email Clients

George M. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:14:17 -0000

Apple Mail has a bigger share than Gmail? That can't be right!
I think the methodology of this study is a little to biased to give relevant results.
Have they mentioned their error margins? http://my.opera.com/exde601...

Re: Most Popular Email Clients

George M. — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:21:57 -0000

on the website of the study, they state that ~ 11-12% of the clients were Undetectable. that could change the hierarchy considerably.

Re: Which Search Engine Do You Choose In The Blind Test?

George M. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:35:17 -0000

I ran my "default search" for Linkin Park against it.
It was pretty easy to figure out which was which: Google had a YouTube link in the top 5, Yahoo linked to Yahoo! Music.
I still chose Google :)
But I will definitely keep testing it.
Google is better for Romanian pages, probably the index size pays of there.

Re: I+Want+To+Love+Firefox+3.5%2C+But+It+Keeps+Crashing+On%26nbsp%3BMe

George M. — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:15:53 -0000

Yes, Firefox it is crashing quite a lot.
Curiously I have more problems on one computer (the home PC). On the work PC it is quite stable, it only crashed 4-5 times since I began using it - in Beta 2 stage, I think, and I keep the browser open practically the whole day long.

Re: Download Google Reader Articles as PDF via ‘Send To’

George M. — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:50:16 -0000

Very useful tips!
I have created a custom link for bit.ly, see here: http://exde601e.blogspot.co...

Re: Employers getting tough on social network use at work

George M. — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:33:24 -0000

I vote to keep access to sites open, a little break from work can relax you.
Of course, I'm not the one deciding these things at my work place :(

Re: Why Google Reader Needs To Shift From Quantity To Quality Of Features

George M. — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:20:37 -0000

The pop-up from Sent-to was blocked in Opera also.
Maybe it works in Firefox because you already allowed Google Reader to open pop-ups.
I don't agree with your angry tone and don't see much of a problem with the issues you mentioned.

Re: Google Chrome Session Saver Extension

George M. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:57:01 -0000

You don't have to use the –restore-last-session parameter for Chrome to restore the pages: after a crash, you get a yellow bar asking you if you want to restore.
Also there is an option to start Chrome with the previous opened tabs, so there is no need to bookmark everything you had opened.

Re: Google Chrome Session Saver Extension

George M. — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:05:43 -0000

Yes, it would definitely be useful.
I personally don't like the new bar the extensions use in Chrome. Maybe they will find another way to access the options, a menu, perhaps?

Re: How to Add Twitter in Pidgin (Windows/Linux)

George M. — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:33:21 -0000

trillian has twitter integrated from the start and it looks better, I'm going to stick with it for the time being.
thanks for the info, though, I might give it a shot sometime in the future!

Re: Google Chrome Session Saver Extension

George M. — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:53:02 -0000

Yes, there is a lot of work to be done, but I think Chrome is usable right now. Versions don't tell the whole story, after all Internet explorer is up to 8 already.
I prefer to have a stable browser than one with lots of cool extensions that crashes every 15 min.

Re: 10 Cool Google Reader ‘Send To’ Buttons You Can Use to Post Feed Content to Friends

George M. — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:43:30 -0000

I wrote a "Send To" link for shortening the URL with bit.ly, see it here: http://exde601e.blogspot.co...