Marc Abramowitz – Page 165

The effect of stress on the brain

Fascinating stuff on how stress can affect the brain. The most interesting part for me: Gary Evans and environmental psychologists at Cornell found that low-level noise in open-style offices seems to result in higher levels of...

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Mozilla Corporation

Interesting. The Mozilla Foundation has announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary that will continue the development, distribution and marketing of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird....

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Mac program: MenuCalendarClock

Just found a great piece of shareware/freeware (basic features free; advance features cost money) that puts a nice little iCal integrated pop-down calendar into your menu bar. I had been wanting something like this for a while,...

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Treo: Shortcut5

From treoAddicts If you miss the ability to edit your own shortcuts on the Treos (my Treo 650 lets me invoke the pre-defined shortcuts using the shortcut symbol, e.g.: s+Alt+Down+Down+Down+L+U = â€œLunchâ€ but...

Treo

Treo: Stuck Shift Key

From treoAddicts: A few weeks ago I started experiencing problems where my Treo 650 would become totally unresponsive - none of the keys would work. Even a reset didnâ€™t help. I was convinced my Treo had died but I...

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Setting up Ruby on Rails to work with Apache and FastCGI

Up until today, I had only been running Ruby on Rails apps inside the built-in WEBrick web server, which is really slow. Today, I set up my Rails apps to work with Apache. If you just run them as CGIs inside Apache, this is also...

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Del.icio.us Direc.tor

Impressive. Most impressive. A very rich and innovative UI for accessing your del.icio.us bookmarks. Even the way it works is very clever. It's a bookmarklet which allows it to do things that remote JavaScript could never do....