March 2009
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Make FireFox start faster
If you’re more than just a casual web user and Firefox is your browser of choice… you may have noticed that it’s gotten a bit sluggish at startup. This tip is for you.
It’s a very simple trick: simply reduce the number of days of history you save in FF. It’s 90 by default! If you’re a web-nut, (like yours truly) that’s a ridiculous amount of history. Put...
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My review of MBK Medallion Homes in Beaumont, CA -...
This weekend my wife and I were getting ready to buy a beautiful new home in the Medallion neighborhood from MBK homes in Beaumont, CA. We were excited, everything seemed great, it’s a buyer’s market so we were offered great incentives by the builder.
But, something just wasn’t right when we were negotiating. The sales rep Jim (James Zures) was really insistent about us using...
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WatchThis is mindblowing. Wearable device projects meta information onto every day items in the real world. This brings the concept of natural technology interaction to the real world.
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“I’m amazed that a full 50% of people are below average intelligence.”
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Using Form Labels as Input Values with jQuery
I recently modified the comment forms on this site. Rather than having a separate label and input field, I used jQuery to put the contents of the label tags inside the inputs themselves.
This gives me the desired effect without impacting accessibility, since the label elements are still there. It simply means that if there is no Javascript support it still functions as expected. Another example...