Geek Stuff

A few reasons I love the internet :

  • A9.com’s yellow pages search – Going to a kickass record store, the deli where Rodney Bingenheimer hangs out, the place where River Phoenix died, that bar from L.A. Confidential, a restaurant with shitty service, a cool comic shop, or the creepiest place on Earth has never been so easy. I can’t believe it took this long to add photos to maps.
  • Firefox - I’l spare you the fawning praise that you’ve probably heard elsewhere and instead point out a few of the extensions for this browser that will keep me from ever goin back to IE :
  • Sage - A lightweight RSS and ATOM feed aggregator

  • SpellBound – Integrated spell-check
  • AdBlock - Powerful advertisement blocking tool
  • BugMeNot - Avoid website registrations
  • Live HTTP Headers – Developer tool to show information about HTTP headers
  • SessionSaver - Remembers loaded tabs and their history items when Firefox is closed

    • If you’re a blogger, installing the extensions above will make things so much easier.

  • maps.google.com – Speaking of maps, MapQuest might as well give up now. Check out this map of the White House to see what I mean. Unlike every other online map, Google maps gives you unlimited movement with your arrow keys. I just hope they can incorporate some of the detail that Rand McNally includes on their maps.

    • posted by greg on February 8, 2005 @ 12:16 pm

    6 comments

    1. hmmm… maps.google doesn’t support safari yet… once again mac users are ignored.

      Comment by tom — February 8, 2005 @ 3:45 pm

    2. Another good reason to download Firefox.

      Comment by greg — February 8, 2005 @ 3:49 pm

    3. Why would anyone even bother with safari on a mac? Safari is really just Konqueror repackaged which is the default browser in KDE for linux. I run KDE and still use firefox.

      Comment by andrew — February 8, 2005 @ 4:00 pm

    4. I knew the “creepy” one was going to be Scientology related.

      Comment by dAnimal — February 8, 2005 @ 5:57 pm

    5. Hey, don’t forget about FireFTP. It’s a Firefox extension I use on almost a daily basis.

      Comment by E-Rock — February 9, 2005 @ 3:39 pm

    6. The Progressive Majority aka updated 2.10.4)

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      Trackback by RealityBuzz.org — February 10, 2005 @ 12:46 pm

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