Got a tablet the other day. Still poking around at it, but I did manage to install Firefox, plus a couple other APKs I found on https://f-droid.org/ onto it at least ( Read more... )

- Open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WszE4_hGZpk and play/pause it to start it preloading. (move the slider back to 0:00 ( Read more... )

Has anyone else looked at the new version of update.bml that LiveJournal is working on? The one that takes the nice compact sets of dropdowns and such above and below the main input box, and pretty much just strews them around the page? Did we /really/ need that?

Turns out that the latest version of Flash (11.3) will cause Firefox to crash on closing the browser after you've watched flash content, due to a new "feature" they added ( Read more... )

On a computer running Firefox 3.6.x (don't ask why, it just is ( Read more... )

Recently managed to download a PDF scan of (what appears to be a photocopy of) the manual for my microwave... found this interesting bit on one of the pages near the front:


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Maybe I'm using Google wrong, but whenever I look for schematics or blueprints for a T-34 tank, all I can seem to find is line drawings, diagrams of the inside layout, assembly guides for T-34 model kits, and other things that aren't what I'm looking for. Nothing seems to have anything even resembling dimensions, and I'm sure it wouldn't work very ( Read more... )

Just had this funny idea.

In HTML, pages have a "header" section that uses and tags.
They also have a "body" section which uses and tags.

Perhaps they should add a "wrists" section that encloses all of the other sections. That way you can end it all with :-P ( Read more... )

Does anyone reading this know much about video conversion ( Read more... )

First off, for anyone not so interested in computery stuff, here's a pretty good YouTube video I found through Reddit earlier at least: Portal 2 - This Is Aperture

Computery stuff to follow:

Continuing from http://discopanda.livejournal.com/214467.html

Bought an 80mm fan (this one, if ( Read more... )