Ubiqity Firefox Addin from Mozilla Labs

awesome new add-in that allows users to create mashups using commands.

Make screenshots of your website in different browsers

Here's a cool way to test your website in different browsers. I read about a site called browsershots.org on an MSDN blog. It will generate screenshots for different operating systems and browsers. It also has settings for screen size, color, Javascript, Java, and Flash. It took 20 minutes to generate 20 screenshots.

Ajax style animated gifs

Here's a site where you can generate you own animated gifs used as a wait icon. It lets you choose color and style. I read about it on an MSDN blog.

This webpage knows your gender

Actually it just uses your browser history to guess. Here's the link. For me it said there was a 50-50 chance that I could be male or female. It finds pages in history with the visited CSS style, checks them against the Quantcast top 10,000 sites, applies a ratio of male to female users for each site, and then guesses your gender.

VS2008 Toolbox is gone

I had this happen before and had to delete my user profile from Vista. It is caused by a known issue in Windows Vista.

I found a workaround here but I still have missing menus. I'll probably have to delete my profile anyway but will need a day to copy documents to temp folder {again}

This is bogus

how to solve a puzzle by Micahel Hunter the Braidy Tester

I got the obvious solution as I read this puzzle

I wouldn't have gotten the other solutions because I didn't know that information, until now. Thanks Braidy Tester, I learned something useful today.

Number of Days to Copy Files

I was copying some files to a Virtual Machine the other day and a message said it would be complete in 5 days and 22 hours. It actually took about 20 minutes; good thing I didn't believe the message.

Here's a screenshot with the filename and directory erased: