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Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a web developer, information architect, site producer, and usability consultant. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.

Archive for the 'Apps' Category

Flock Rocks

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I’ve been using Flock for a while now and I have to say it rocks better than any other, even Firefox 3.0, which I find a vast improvement over Firefox 2 but its drop-down address bar just annoys me too much and I can’t be bothered to change it now that I have Flock.
Its green [...]

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Must-Have App for the Nokia N82

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

One of the faults with the N82 is that it is awfully hard to see the time when it is on screensaver or power-saving mode. Unlike the e61i and the 6280, it looks almost invisible.
Since I am already half-blind, the Large Clock Screensaver is a real lifesaver. It shows you the time, date, and even [...]

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Twittering on Wordpress

Monday, May 26th, 2008

The Twittering begins!
I’ve finally got Twitter on both my main blogs, this one and Strange Machines. Although there are tons of Twitter plugins for Wordpress blogs (and having installed 2 that don’t seem to work), I found it easiest to cut and paste the custom HTML and Javascript Twitter code myself.
Here’s how:
1. First ensure your [...]

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A very useful plugin for anyone who needs to count the number of words (and characters) in a textarea.
Go check out the Text Area Word Counter by Gina Trapani.
(Source: Blogger for Dollars)

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