I’ve found myself stuck in many situations where my laptop screen is too bright for my eyes, and yet the brightness is as low as it can go. Up until recently I’ve tried to work around it, including wearing sunglasses at the computer (tip: that doesn’t really help.) Then, I discovered a utility called PangoBright. While it cannot call your …
Recognize that? It’s the infamous tab button on your keyboard. You’ve probably used it for two things: indenting paragraphs and filling out forms without using the mouse. Today, we’ll focus on the filling-out-the-forms part. Ever wonder why your TAB button has two arrows, one going backwards and one going forwards? It has a double function. If you’ve only used it …
I stumbled across this website a few days ago while I was flipping through the pages of Scientific American. The name of the website is “Old Weather“, and it’s a project that aims to fill the holes in the earth’s climatic record between the years of World War I and World War II. Now you may ask, who the heck …
See my last post about these two bills: SOPA (and PIPA): What they mean for your Internet. Since my last post, I’ve gotten numerous emails from Demand Progress and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, thanking me for my opposition against the bills, and ironically, asking me to sign more petitions. It turns out that the activism on the Internet has pushed …