Because I’m Bored: My Firefox Add-ons

Can’ Live Without

• Adblock Plus, together with the ABP Element Hiding Helper
• Greasemonkey – for the userscripts, naturally. You can find the below at userscripts.org
• Flickr Multi-group Sender – because Flickrites are lazy
• Yousable Tubefix – adds YouTube options
• Gawker Enhanced Comments (07-2009) – fixes a lot of things that wrong with the new comments system.
• LiveClick – Slide-up notifications! (I think they used to be called Growl-style, but I’m not all too sure what Growl notifications look like relative to the rest of the screen)
• QuickDrag
• PDF Download – the one I currently use is by Nitro Software, but there are many alternatives out there.
• Delicious Bookmarks
• StumbleUpon
• TwitterBar
• YouTube Comment Snob – Ah, YouTube bliss…
• Web Developer – Every time I want to uninstall it, something comes up which justifies having it around. It’s kinda spooky.

I Don’t Know

• Yahoo! Mail Notifier – It’s kind of useless because I keep Mail open in background tab, but I can set it to check more often. Of course I could use Postbox for that as well, but it’s still very much in beta and it’s got a lot of kinks that must be worked out.
• CustomizeGoogle – I keep it for the random options not related to ads.
• Web of Trust – it does come in handy sometimes…sometimes.
• LeechBlock – does it work? I don’t know yet. I keep tricking myself out of setting a combination.

Can Totally Live Without (i.e. uninstalled today)

• Sxipper
• Aviary (other than one-click screenshot capture and upload, it’s pretty useless, since Aviary went to a pay model eons ago)

Now, on to Low Earth Orbit satellites…

Adjective of the Month: August 2009

appy belated National Day. Also, I know I missed out July. And I have some overdue Office 2010 screenshots that I’ll post after the definition I think I lost them. Have a WIP instead. Therefore, I proclaim this month’s adjective to be:

slack (slæk)
adj.

1. not tight, taut, firm, or tense; loose: a slack rope.
2. negligent; careless; remiss: slack proofreading.
3. slow, sluggish, or indolent: He is slack in answering letters.
4. not active or busy; dull; not brisk: the slack season in an industry.
5. moving very slowly, as the tide, wind, or water.
6. weak; lax.
7. Nautical. EASY.

Help, I've got no eyes (yet). WIP.

31% Geeky, apparently.

From Anton Olsen’s post on Wired, 100 Essential Skills for Geeks. I have a horrible feeling that I’m going to get less than 10% on this…

Here we go! Bolded means yes. Strikethrough means it’s not applicable. Prepare to jump.

And my duty is done (for a day, at least)

Almost there…

Thank goodness! I’m doing the last summary now and will write the opinion piece in a while.

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Seen on MSN Windows Live Messenger. This ad is at actual size. Okay maybe it isn’t all that fail after all.

Adjective of the Month: June 2009

hec·tic  (hěk’tĭk)  
adj.  

1. Characterized by intense activity, confusion, or haste: "There was nothing feverish or hectic about his vigor" (Erik Erikson).
2. Medicine Of, relating to, or being a fever that fluctuates during the day, as in tuberculosis or septicemia.
3. Consumptive; feverish.
4. Flushed.

Memory doodle. Yeah her skirt is too long and she looks adolescent.

Usage

It’s been a dead hectic half-year for me, and it promises to get even more hectic as September (coursework due, O-levels, EOYs) draw near. ARGH! Also, 2009 seems to be a rather angry year. I’ve had several angry outbursts in the past two weeks alone (most of them, thankfully, contained).

I remember reading something about anger problems. It’s supposed to manifest itself in this way sometimes. Ah.

I was going to suggest “anger management” when they asked what to add to the PCCG syllabus, but…well, yeah.

Adjective of the Month: May 2009

snark·y (snär’kē)
adj. snark·i·er, snark·i·est Slang

1. Rudely sarcastic or disrespectful; snide.
2. Irritable or short-tempered; irascible.

Usage:

What Do I Do If The Vending Machine Is Broken?

Is it a joke by the IT department? Or is this real? I’ll never know, but whatever it is, it’s funny.

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Really Bad Singing: Viva La Vida Edition

Chels and I sang Viva La Vida on a whim. Erm, it sounds pretty crappy.

Make that very crappy.

Jump if you’re really bored, and also, it’s best to listen with a lot of reverb.