By Bruce van der Kooij on April 19, 2011
Get to your favorite sites quickly – even if you don’t remember the URLs. Type your term into the location bar (aka the Awesome Bar) and the autocomplete function will include possible matches from your browsing history, bookmarked sites and open tabs. The Awesome Bar learns as you use it—over time, it adapts to your [...]
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By Bruce van der Kooij on September 25, 2010
For some reason when laying out almost any kind of imaginary of equal sizes in a grid fashion: magic happens. It’s weird, but it’s true. I’ll give some examples in future blog posts.
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By Bruce van der Kooij on September 25, 2010
I was watching Seth Godin’s 2006 This Is Broken talk at the Gel conference and he showed this funny sign they use in the District of North Vancouver, Canada to remind dog owners to pick up after their dog: Here’s another picture of the sign and for some more information on the sign check out [...]
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By Bruce van der Kooij on October 11, 2009
I’ve decided I want to get more effective and start settings goals and then follow through on realizing them. No more messing about! One of the steps includes getting more organized and start managing my tasks. To make it more comfortable to create tasks I’ve started using the GNOME Do plugin for Remember the Milk [...]
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By Bruce van der Kooij on June 8, 2009
It’s pretty nifty how in summary view WordPress will (sometimes?) take the first image encountered and use it as a thumbnail and even automatically crops it. TODO: I have a post where I had added an image and later removed it, WordPress still uses this image as a thumbnail (click on one of the associated [...]
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By Bruce van der Kooij on June 8, 2009
It’s quite cool how WordPress remembers what mode (Visual versus HTML) you were previously in and the size of the editor when writing a blog post . TODO: Expand this post
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By Bruce van der Kooij on June 8, 2009
While making a quick post and alt-tabbing between the title and the content area I was pleasantly surprised to see the textarea storing the position of the text cursor. I never noticed this before but probably did so now because of the specific situation.
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