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The new TweetDeck – is it a joke?
02 months ago
I’ve always used TweetDeck, and I always loved it. I liked its features – like support for longer tweets through deck.ly, translations, tweet shrinker etc. Then Twitter bought TweetDeck (so it seems). I have never in my life seen so many good features been removed. There is no longer support for the system tray, you have to keep it in your taskbar (which irritates me, it just makes me lose focus and clutters things up, why should a background app be in the taskbar anyway?). Then the option for choosing where the update popup should appear has been removed. Now it just opens in the middle of my second screen (which I don’t pay much attention to when I’m not chatting, that’s where I got my chat stuff like IRC, Skype etc). On another note on the popup, it suspiciously looks like some sort of IE frame or something, right-clicking it gives options to go back/forward and reload, and doing so completely breaks it.
Deck.ly support was removed, tweet shrinker was removed, translate was removed. A lot of other functions I’ve seen but never used are just not there anymore. I do understand that it seems like they started over from scratch, but at least add all the previous functionality before releasing a new version? At least release the new application as a alpha/beta until it got the same functionality as before, if it’s ever planned to be re-added.
Non-centered websites?
02 months ago
What’s the deal with these? I don’t know, maybe I’m the only one, but I have a hard time focusing on non-centered content. Like, a really hard time.
I guess it might work better on a 4:3 (example 1280×1024 resolution) screen where it isn’t very obvious and a big issue, and maybe the designers worked on a 4:3 screen when making the page. But, on a 24″ 16:9 (that’s 1920×1080 in resolution) widescreen (like I am using) it just looks horrible and it’s quite hard to concentrate on the text.
The last straw for me being annoyed with this was when the local newspaper, Skövde Nyheter, released their web edition recently. Here is a pic:
Skövde Nyheter
No centering at all. And look at that whitespace…
Update: I just discovered that my adblocker is messing up its centering. The page is actually centered, but I wonder how an adblocker can mess with the CSS like that to undo the centering…
Next up is Lerums Tidning, the local newspaper of my hometown:
Lerums Tidning
Also here you can see the page is waay to the left. And just look at that large chunk of whitespace left by it (one could assume that it’s a space for ads that is hidden because of previously mentioned adblocker, but I tested without adblocker too, it’s empty. The white sidebar is for ads though). The content isn’t all the way to the left though because of the sidebar menu, but still. The publishers other sites for other local newspapers they are in charge of are identical with the same issue.
You maybe have drawn the conclusion that these are smaller, local sites they didn’t spend very much money on the designing-part. I surely thought that was the case then BAM I noticed this:
SVT
This is the site of the Swedish national TV channel, SVT. You may think they can afford to get it centered, when you think about how they are forcing us to pay them because we own a TV. That page takes up roughly 50% of my monitor, 50% is whitespace.
In all of these designs, I’m more aware of the line happening at the middle of the page than aware of the content.
Am I alone being annoyed with this?
Nyancat in our windows
03 months ago
So some month ago I noticed that someone made a megaman post-it figure in an apartment window on the 10th or so floor in my building, and I thought for a while that I wanted to make something similar. I went to the store and bought some cubes of sticky notes, not knowing what to make at the time. Then I saw this, and I instantly knew what I would create. I had to cut all notes in smaller notes for the cat to fit in my window though. Then I had the idea to continue the rainbow in my friends apartment windows too, and I got approval from him for doing so. In total, 2120 sticky notes were bought (thought not all got used, but most of them) for a total price of 333SEK, around $50 USD. This is made on the 5th floor in the building called Skrapan in Skövde, Sweden. Here are some pictures:
Nyancat
Nyancat zoomed in
Nyancat with lights on
Nyancat zoomed lights on
Nyancat in the dark
Nyancat zoomed in the dark
So there you have it, Nyancat in our windows :3
Thanks to:
Sticky notes bought at:
Staples, Skövde
Akademibokhandeln, Skövde
And to my friend for helping me and letting me use his windows.
Czech Constitutional Court Rejects the Data Retention Directive
010 months ago
Today the Czech constitutional court rejected the impelemntation of the Data Retention Directive, making it the fifth country beside Germany, Romania, Cyprus and Hungary. They concluded that it is in violation of fundamental rights. There is now 9 countries out of 27 that either has implemented it then rejected it or haven’t implemented it at all yet. Those who haven’t implemented it yet is Sweden, Greece, Ireland and Austria. I hope more countries open up their eyes now to reject the EU directive and start caring more of it’s citizens privacy.
Proxies are back up once again!
01 year ago
I got a spare VPS, so I have started the proxies once again!
Here is the URL’s:
Make your computer secure for free
01 year ago
Computer security is one essential step to do if you don’t want to be hacked or to have a slow PC. There are lots of lots of solution, both free and paid ones. There is many different opinions of what is the best software, but I’m gonna show you how I have it set up.
Browser: Firefox
I use Firefox for it’s many ways of customization. Some of the plugins I gonna show you also depends on Firefox.
Antivirus: Avast! Free Antivirus
I have tried several paid and free antivirus softwares, like cloud AV, F-Secure, Avira, and none has been as good as Avast! is. With it’s recent update to the UI it makes it much more easier to use. It got a lot of protection that I haven’t seen in any other free antivirus software. Filesystem protection, webscan, emailscan, P2P protection, IM protection, network protection, some sort of UAC-like protection. All for free. If I would happen to download a virus from the net, avast! will instantly block the connection as it discovers the virus.
Browser plugin: Adblock+
Lots of ads contain virus and other malware. They also can be very annoying. To get rid of them, both for a cleaner and safer web, I use Adblock+. I do encourage you to disable Adblock+ on your favorite sites to show them some support.
Browser plugin: Web Of Trust
Web Of Trust warns you about bad sites. It doesn’t only warn you about viruses, but for scams and other phishing attacks too. It’s better than siteadvisor as it classes the sites per sub-domain, not per domain. Because a sub-domain is doing something bad doesn’t mean the rest of the domain is bad (like on free hosts when there are several users on a domain).
That is all you need for a safe computer. And maybe a firewall, but I can’t suggest any firewall as I don’t use one as my router has a built-in one.
Why no no-script?
In my opinion no-script is pretty useless. Most if not all websites uses javascript for functionality and design. When one come over a site that doesn’t work, they allow javascript without checking what the javascript does anyway, and that defeats the purpose. Also, if you were gonna have a virus downloaded by javascript, avast! is there to block it as it has a web scanner that scans everything downloaded.
1000 mbps Internet released
01 year ago
by galaxyAbstractor
in internet
Today (or some days ago) my ISP released it’s 1000 Mbps Internet, 1000 Mbps down, 100 Mbps up, for 999 SEK/month (That’s around $141/month. I’m not gonna upgrade tho as it is $100/month more than my current 100/10 connection (but I get 100/50 for some reason 
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Swedish commercials on internet memes
01 year ago
There have been some commercials in Swedish television lately with references to Internet memes, both from 2 large ISPs, ComHem and Telenor. You can watch them below:
Well, I can’t really say this is an Internet meme, but I include it anyway:
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