This should be easy for the geniuses to add :
When you're viewing an image in a directory with a lot of images, please fade-raise (the way Chrome does when rendering PDFs - when the mouse moves) a Previous and Next button to let the user navigate between files without needing to use the Back button. Even better, let the PgUp, PgDn buttons also do this...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Better Web Browsers
Anyone know how to add this to Firefox or Chrome? Also, for a given Linux version, is it possible to install a personal version of Chrome without being root?
Here's what I'd like (Shame on you GNU, M$-Sharepoint used to (thanks M$) provide this :
When you're displaying a path like
file:///Z:Desktop/blah/foo/bar/projects/whatever
Let each of those words in the path be a clickable link so the user can navigate really easily.
Should be a routine hack for a software type. What forum can I suggest this on?
Here's what I'd like (Shame on you GNU, M$-Sharepoint used to (thanks M$) provide this :
When you're displaying a path like
file:///Z:Desktop/blah/foo/bar/projects/whatever
Let each of those words in the path be a clickable link so the user can navigate really easily.
Should be a routine hack for a software type. What forum can I suggest this on?
Friday, August 5, 2011
Electronic Arts (Rats)
What we need is a high-quality video game environment and a realistic model for the rat(s) that society can use to devise means to defeat these pests. The US Army had success with recruitment after it created a free video game for young uns to play. Why not learn from that one?
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Inhumane Rat Trap
This is my new calling - ridding the world if the world's deadliest rodent (when it wants to be).
You see peoples' videos - how a rat almost gets caught in the trap, etc... Here's my suggestion - set up motion detection - so you get some kind of alarm (now that's tricky - since the rat can hear way better than you can - so I'm not sure how to work that part...) that tells you when the rat is near the bait. These guys have evolved into pretty intelligent maze solvers - after all, it's the rats that beat the traps that survive - we've been killing the dumb ones all these years.
Then, you set up (obviously) a couple of guns that you can control remotely - you want to take your best shot, not your only shot. You need to rig those up so you get a display with a cross-hair, etc. And of course, this needs to be night-vision stuff - since our friends only come out at night. Tricky. From what I've read, the rat is winning.
When our friend is near the food, and you know it, bam! Good riddance, hope you left a note telling your buddy where you were going for some treats, so I can get him tomorrow!
As a new homeowner, I'm planning early - it's only a matter of time before I encounter one of them..
Of course, that's a battle. The war is in the sewers - where we're practically breeding them. We need a new system - the stuff in the sewers needs to be used as a kind of fuel - rats included. Burn them!
Oh, to make your traps more effective - do what the pros do - leave them out, unset for a few days, so the rat gets used to them - though rats like to explore, they are suspicious of anything new. Then, once you see the food from the unset trap being taken, go for the kill.
I guess, in my earlier suggestion, you could dispense with the guns and use some kind of schock therapy. I.e., you press the switch when you see the ready to take a bite?
But, we need to get to the source. What do you do with a dead rat? Toss it in the garbage? Then he's just going to be eaten by the other rats that forage in the garbage? Bury him? Same story. We need to bring all our modern technology to bear on this problem. To make the next quantum leap in our quality of life, we must eliminate the rat.
You see peoples' videos - how a rat almost gets caught in the trap, etc... Here's my suggestion - set up motion detection - so you get some kind of alarm (now that's tricky - since the rat can hear way better than you can - so I'm not sure how to work that part...) that tells you when the rat is near the bait. These guys have evolved into pretty intelligent maze solvers - after all, it's the rats that beat the traps that survive - we've been killing the dumb ones all these years.
Then, you set up (obviously) a couple of guns that you can control remotely - you want to take your best shot, not your only shot. You need to rig those up so you get a display with a cross-hair, etc. And of course, this needs to be night-vision stuff - since our friends only come out at night. Tricky. From what I've read, the rat is winning.
When our friend is near the food, and you know it, bam! Good riddance, hope you left a note telling your buddy where you were going for some treats, so I can get him tomorrow!
As a new homeowner, I'm planning early - it's only a matter of time before I encounter one of them..
Of course, that's a battle. The war is in the sewers - where we're practically breeding them. We need a new system - the stuff in the sewers needs to be used as a kind of fuel - rats included. Burn them!
Oh, to make your traps more effective - do what the pros do - leave them out, unset for a few days, so the rat gets used to them - though rats like to explore, they are suspicious of anything new. Then, once you see the food from the unset trap being taken, go for the kill.
I guess, in my earlier suggestion, you could dispense with the guns and use some kind of schock therapy. I.e., you press the switch when you see the ready to take a bite?
But, we need to get to the source. What do you do with a dead rat? Toss it in the garbage? Then he's just going to be eaten by the other rats that forage in the garbage? Bury him? Same story. We need to bring all our modern technology to bear on this problem. To make the next quantum leap in our quality of life, we must eliminate the rat.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Better Browser Bookmarks
You can drag a folder onto the bookmark bar of your browser and create an easy-access link to that folder. But, things could be better.
What the browser should to is examine the link you added - see that it's a folder, with sub-folders and, next time you hover on it, give you a drop-down menu allowing you to descend into a subfolder right away.
What the browser should to is examine the link you added - see that it's a folder, with sub-folders and, next time you hover on it, give you a drop-down menu allowing you to descend into a subfolder right away.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Fergie's New Masterplan
1. Use United's cash reserves to buy a tinpot little Spanish club.
2. Promote this club from Division 1 to to La Liga.
3. Now, get English players from the United academy to play in La Liga for this club to unravel Barca from close range.
4. Get the Barca system adopted by United.
2. Promote this club from Division 1 to to La Liga.
3. Now, get English players from the United academy to play in La Liga for this club to unravel Barca from close range.
4. Get the Barca system adopted by United.
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Better Android Gmail
For a start, it'd be nice if Apple and Google grew up and decided to let Android Gmail do the pinch and zoom thing. It'd be less crappy with it.
But, when you get a new mail, you get the Gmail icon on the status bar - as a notification. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a default colour and another colour for the special case of getting an email from someone on your contact list? You don't care so much about Chase telling you your payment has posted, but you would like to know if your girlfriend wants to tell you something. Ja? Larry, Sergey, listening?
But, when you get a new mail, you get the Gmail icon on the status bar - as a notification. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a default colour and another colour for the special case of getting an email from someone on your contact list? You don't care so much about Chase telling you your payment has posted, but you would like to know if your girlfriend wants to tell you something. Ja? Larry, Sergey, listening?
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