Archive for September, 2008
Is there a third option?
From my fortune cookie last night: “You will do better in real estate than in stocks.”
I bet there’s a memo
New Microsoft ad actually created on a Mac.
Makes you wonder what kind of meetings they’re having about their creative process this week, and whether the slant is “Don’t use Macs for Microsoft work” or “Make sure you don’t get caught”…
Multiple copies of bookmarks in Firefox 3
Another day, another browser annoyance. Firefox 3 removed (some would say “fixed”) the ability to bookmark the same page multiple times, allowing the user to save the bookmark in several folders. I rely pretty heavily on this feature, and I didn’t notice that the first few times I tried to do it, I accidentally moved (edited) the bookmark instead of adding a second one. Now I’m digging back through my recent bookmarks and trying to make sure that they’re all in the proper locations.
The new process: Bookmark the link. Now, go to the Bookmarks menu and select Organize Bookmarks. Find the bookmark, copy it and paste it, then move the second bookmark into the second folder. Repeat as needed. (Thanks to this thread for the solution.) Way more convoluted than just hitting Cmd+D again and picking a second folder.
I guess now I can disable my “Bookmark Duplicate Detector” add-on, since I won’t be duplicating any bookmarks accidentally…
What could possibly go wrong?
Another Emmy moment:
As a side note: The Emmy folks are taking their sweet time getting these things online. I mean really, it’s more than a day after the awards, and their YouTube page doesn’t have any new information. By next week, no one will care (or more likely, everyone will have already viewed unofficial videos like the one above).
I’m sure all the Emmy folks went out after the awards, got drunk, and partied like rock stars. But couldn’t they outsource this stuff to some video editors? It’s not that difficult to just slice up some preexisting content and upload it - again, see the unofficial videos already online.
But I still won
I have no interest in awards shows, but I’ll watch just about anything to do with Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, or Ricky Gervais (which is how I got suckered into renting the horribly disappointing “A Night at the Museum”), and about 50% of anything Steve Carell is in. So naturally I’m loving this multi-year Emmy joke:
Removing addresses from Safari location bar
I love Firefox, but because I use it for development, I’ve got it so overloaded with extensions that it runs sluggishly and is generally a pain in the neck for everyday use. So I’ve been half-heartedly switching back to Safari as my everyday putzing around browser, and just using Firefox for work.
One of the features I love about Firefox is the very easy keystroke (Shift+Delete on a Mac) to delete an unwanted address from the browser’s location bar. That way, if you mistyped an address once, you’re not haunted by the spector of that incorrect address until your browser finally gets around to clearing it away - you can manually remove it. Or say you checked the weather in North Carolina and Florida before your recent visits, and now every time you start typing the address of the Weather Underground, you have to sift past those other addresses before you get to your local one. Not a big annoyance in the grand scheme of things, but if this happens several times a day, it’s nice to fix it.
Thanks to Jamie, I now have the answer for how to do this on Safari. Not as easy as Firefox, but easier than the answers I found when Googling (mostly variations on “remove your entire history and all saved profile data”):
- In the “View” menu, choose “Show Bookmarks Bar”
- Click on the Bookmarks bar icon to view your bookmarks
- Click on your History to view the list
- In the top right corner, search for the incorrect url(s)
- Select and delete
I still might try creating multiple profiles on Firefox, but for the time being I’m plodding along on Safari. It’s frustrating that I never am confident about which keyboard shortcuts to use without stopping to look at which browser I’m in, but after years of working on Macs and PCs at the same time, I’m kind of used to that sort of problem.
(PS - Hi Mike! :-)
There Ought to be an Adult
Ok, when Karl Rove is telling you that your ads are hitting below the belt, that should tell you something…