My Google Notebook add-on in my Firefox browser just updated. I haven’t been using it for a while since I began using Google Reader and conveniently “starred” the news or clips I like. I want to revive using this simple extension since it’s so convenient to note things that you find in the web. I started using Google Notebook in unison with iGoogle. My feed aggregator was iGoogle, and my notepad is Google Notebook.
Once installed in your browser, adding a note is simple. Just select (highlight) a piece of text from a website, then right click and select Note This. And that’s it, the note, including the whole URL of the website is added for reference. If you open your Notebook, you can edit the entries, add labels, and sort them out. My primary reason why I use Google Notebook is that I can virtually access all my notes on another computer.
Another interesting note is that if you use Google Bookmarks, the labels you use on it to organize your bookmarks appears on Google Notebook as well.
I’m re-organizing some notes on my Google Notebook, so there are some stuff I have to remove. I’ll use this entry to post the things that I’ve removed in case I need to find it some other time. And maybe some of you may also find it useful.
My notes after the jump
Webware: Cool Web apps for everyone
Spam, zombie robots, and the rest of the dark underbelly of the Internet has led to one of the Web’s big annoyances: the captcha. That’s the barely readable block of random letters you must translate in order to prove your humanness, and it’s supposedly the one thing that separates us from the machines. It’s also used in nearly every site registration process–and more recently at site logins. The bottom line is that it’s annoying but also utterly necessary to keep evil at bay.
Top 10 Firefox extensions to avoid
But some extensions are “bad” in unapparent ways, or just don’t provide enough benefits to be worth running. So, in no particular order, let’s look at 10 to avoid.
20 must-have Firefox extensions
A freshly installed copy of Firefox is a great software package, but what makes this open-source browser so special is the ability to customize it via extensions and themes to really make it yours. The problem is, there are so many available add-ins, it’s tough to know what’s worth installing and what’s just going to junk up your system.
Taiwan’s miCard chosen as global memory card standard
A Taiwanese research institute has produced a new global memory card standard, called the miCard (Multiple Interface Card), designed to work in smaller consumer gadgets such as digital cameras, mobile phones and any device with a USB plug, which are common on PCs.
Browser Smackdown: Firefox vs. IE vs. Opera vs. Safari
There’s the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” crowd who tend to stick with the browser that’s included with their operating system — Microsoft’s Internet Explorer on Windows and Apple’s Safari on the Mac. There are the “I’ve just gotta be me” folks who prefer lesser-known browsers, such as Opera from Opera Software. And there are the “live free or die” open-source true believers who champion Mozilla’s Firefox above its commercial counterparts.
Coding Horror: Choosing Anti-Anti-Virus Software
It’s about what I expected; rough parity with the performance of Windows XP. Vista’s a bit slower in some areas, and a bit faster in others. But shouldn’t new operating systems perform better than old ones? There are plenty of low-level improvements under the hood. Why does Vista only break even in performance?
Forgetfulness is a tool of the brain – being-human – 04 June 2007 – New Scientist
A note to the forgetful: be thankful you don’t remember everything. It means your brain is working properly.
According to a new study, the brain only chooses to remember memories it thinks are most relevant, and actively suppresses those that are similar but less used, helping to lessen the cognitive load and prevent confusion.
The Milgram Obedience Experiments: Interesting Thing of the Day
Strictly speaking, my dilemma was not a matter of whether to obey an authority, but rather which authority to obey—the police officer or the written law. Nevertheless, the fundamental conflict was between doing what I thought was right and doing what I was told. As stressful as I found that experience (I still cringe at the thought, more than 20 years later), it pales in comparison to a series of famous (or, perhaps, infamous) experiments performed in the early 1960s. The experiments’ goal was to determine just how far people will stray from their ethical comfort zone in order to obey an authority.
Solar Voyager – Home
Space Art encourages us to dream…of what is and what may be. Since the dawn of time, humans have gazed upon the sky with awe and curiosity, imagining what may be found in the vastness around them. The universe is not black and white. Beyond the reaches of our atmosphere lie splashes of wondrous color against the inky backdrop of space. It is fitting that these things be represented in fantastic artistic images. Space artists bring these dreams to life and we believe some of the best examples of this work are right here.
Photoshop Tutorials – Realistic Sky
Learn how to craft a night sky with an envious moon in less then ten steps.
anime.mikomi.org – Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora
In a winter when he was in the second grade of the high school, Yuichi is hospitalized because of hepatitis. Soon his condition improves so much that he gets bored and frequently sneaks out of the hospital, for which he’s scolded and punished by the nurse Akiko. One day he observes a girl of his age, by the name of Rika, in the east wing of the hospital (where the patients with serious illnesses are said to be located). Fascinated by her beauty (and encouraged by Akiko) he begins to befriend this girl who appears very selfish and capricious at first. But when Rika finally opens up to him so much as to tell him about her degenerate heart valve and her forthcoming surgery, he begins to judge her differently…
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