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Opera 9.5 Beta
June 4, 20083:53:10 pm
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Opera 9.2 was really quite good. It had features that could compare to Firefox3[1. Or at least the version avalible at the time], used less system resources, was faster, and looked better (when you themed it). Opera has had a beta out for a while, but what really enthralled me was the addition of Dragonfly.

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Evernote
May 30, 20088:42:42 pm
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Evernote is an application that lets you store and create notes. Its pretty much a virtual spiral notebook. While the actual application idea for Evernote has been around for a while[2. An early version shipped with my graphics tablet back in 05], it has gotten a recent overhall, and is much nicer to use now.


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Google Chart API gets better
April 27, 200810:09:00 pm
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I don’t know when they posted it, but the Google Chart api has gotten much better. They have added a few new types of graph, such as spark graphs (think stock charts), country maps (for viewing data by country), and a cool new graph called a Google-o-meter (like a gauge). This api is getting better and better, and since it has no data cap, i am thinking about some implementations here on this site. Perhaps a Google-o-meter instead of review stars, or a pie chart in polls. The possibilities are really endless.

Google Chart API

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Pastebins and Quote Databases Suck
April 12, 20086:55:26 pm
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I spent the past afternoon fighting with several quote database and pastebin scripts. This has allowed me to draw the conclusion that these scripts suck ass.

Quote Database

I spent a long amount of time trying to get a quote database set up. I tried many things, all of them failed. All the quote databases i tried either sucked, were too ugly to use, or didn’t work with my setup. The last one, those that didn’t work with my setup, was most annoying, because i have a webhost with perl installed, and i followed the instructions in the install files to the letter, yet nothing.

Pastebins

Giving up on the quote db, i decided to use a pastebin. I went to the big pastebin, pastebin.com. and downloaded their application. Lo and behold, the MySQl code in the installer doesnt work.

As such, i have had a very stressful day.

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