Thursday Link Dump
May 24th, 2007 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
- Basic Firefox tips. Some helpful ones in here I didn’t know, too. For example, hitting ESC will stop animated gifs. It won’t stop banner ads done up in Flash, but it’ll help calm some websites down. (This assumes, of course, that you haven’t already blocked them.) Also, you can search on a page in a similar manner to the way you search with the vi editor. Just hit “/” to bring up the find bar across the bottom of the screen.
- 10 Cool Web Sites We Miss: Web sites killed for legal reasons. Most, as you might suspect, dealt with pirated works.
- Is the Mac Mini dead, replaced by the Apple TV?
- Domain name auction-buying can lead to big bucks.
- Famous Cinematic Long Takes: Complete with YouTube clips, here are a couple dozen examples of very long single takes throughout the ages of cinema — everything from SNAKE EYES to HARD BOILED to TOUCH OF EVIL.
- The writer of the Charlie’s Angels movie got paid residuals for the iPhone commercial — which used 1 second from the movie. Not bad at all!
May 24th, 2007 at 10:52 am
A shame about the Mac Mini. I am a PC user and was going to get one to have as a second system to get more acquainted with Mac.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
For all you Sirius subscribers I installed a wonderful add on in Firefox for my Sirius player. I takes away the need to log into the “radio” via the site. It is now embedded in my main tool bar as it’s ow Sirius tab. Firefox does it again.