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1st
SEP
Top 10 Sites For Online Coupons & Promotional Codes
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tips & Tricks
MakeUsOf.com has a great list of the top 10 sites to find online coupons and deals. I listed them below, but for a better description, check them out by clicking the link below. I use RetailMeNot.com all the time and love it so I would highly recommend that.
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Tags: Deals
17th
AUG
How Sloane Peterson from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Taught me how to be an Awesome Girlfriend
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tips & Tricks
Reblogged from http://condicondi.tumblr.com
THE GUIDE TO BEING SO CHOICE aka How Sloane Peterson from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Taught me how to be an Awesome Girlfriend.
- Get along with his friends if you don’t get along with his friends you are done. seriously. That is number 1. Even if you think his friends are uptight weirdos or hypochondriac freaks, HEY, he is friends with them for a reason, so cut the shit. You’ve probably got some weird and crappy friends too…
- Rein him in, but only when necessary you are his girlfriend, not his mother. If he wants to sing to the city on a giant float, let him do it. He’s a big man and he can deal with the consequences. You can nicely remind him, Look, if you do that there might be trouble, but if you throw a bitch fit and give him the silent treatmeant you will look fucking retarded when he has a new girlfriend on his arm from the impressive stunts he’s pulled.
- Be funny “He’s licking the glass and making obscene gestures with his hands.” simple as that.
- Be confident Look, one of the reasons Ferris loved her was because she was cool and classy lady, she didn’t stress. She uttered the words and believed “He’s gonna marry me.” She probably knows if her boyfriend was running through a backyard and saw 2 girls tanning he probably would stop and say hello, but she also knows that he would spend hours of stress and risk his neck to get her out of school to just see her. Relax. You have him. He’s not going anywhere, and if he talks to other girls who the fuck cares YOU are the one he wants to marry.
- Say Eloquent Shit did Sloane ever use the word “like” as much as you do in your daily conversation? No. Drop the habit that makes you seem like a dumb valley girl and trade it for stellar vocab terms like “warmth & compassion” and “devastatingly handsome.” Once you’ve mastered talking like an adult, you’ll be able to spew pearls of poetry like “The city looks so peaceful from up here…”
- Pack lightly ever notice how tiny Sloane’s purse was? The bigger the purse, the lamer the girl. Its called baggage for a reason.
- Be able to keep up with the boys Hey, if you’ve got cramps, take a fucking midol and strap in. You don’t ever wanna be the girlfriend who is a drag and never wants to go out. A girl who can say she cruised with the top down in a convertible, swung by the Stock Exchange, and took in a Cubs game all in one day, is sorta girl who you wanna keep around.
- Look badass in a jacket with fringe The End.
13th
MAY
Biggest Pet Peeves: When People Use Safely Remove Hardware for USB flash drives [Rant]
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech, Tips & Tricks
Seriously people, do you not understand that one of the main selling points of USB is its plug-n-play aspect? I’m guessing that knowledge escaped the mainstream audience since it’s the reason I’m writing this. Maybe. But I’m sure you’ve noticed that when you plug in your camera, iPod, or anything through USB, it opens automatically. So wouldn’t this give you a hint that it’s possible to pull it out the same way? I don’t even know how using safely remove hardware even got around because it isn’t exactly the most obvious feature in Windows (especially XP which was when all you crazies started performing this ridiculousness).
“But…won’t I lose my data?” What do you think the blinking light is for? To look pretty? To mezmerize you? It’s there so you know when it’s in use. Obviously if it’s in use by the computer you may (and the keyword is may even then) lose data. So please people, next time you decide to pull out your USB, think about me bitch-slapping you across the face for clicking on safely remove hardware icon and just pull it out (I feel like there’s sexual connotation in there, but you can put the pieces together).
So now you know, and knowing is half the battle. G.I. Joe!
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Tags: Pet peeves, Rant, Technology, USB
1st
APR
How to Export Your Facebook Calendar
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech, Tips & Tricks
If you’re disorganized like I am and forget people’s birthday’s constantly, Facebook’s a great tool for helping you out. Obviously, I don’t always have the time to check Facebook every day, but I do check my Google Calendar constantly. So how do you sync the two so you only have to check your online/desktop calendar? It’s easy to do with fbCal.
With fbCal, you can get your events and friend’s birthdays in Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook or in your RSS reader! The process can be done in less than a minute, and it’s free!
You simply sign in and allow the service both online and offline access to your Facebook account. This is really useful, so you don’t miss something important! It automatically transfers the dates so you can find out who’s birthday it is, or make sure you don’t forget an event you wanted to attend! Heck, it’s even a good way to help keep track of events you yourself are organizing.
It’s the easiest and cleanest way to export data from your Facebook calendar to another device or program! Check it out!
Tags: fbCal, How to, Technology, Tips & Tricks
29th
DEC
2 Easy Tweaks to Make Firefox Faster! + Google Reader “Secret Theme”
Posted by Mavrik | Filed under Tech, Tips & Tricks, ZOMG
Firefox being a little more sluggish than usual? Well then give these two quick and easy tweaks a try and you should see an improvement in load times. Both of these must be done in about:config so the first step is to type “about:config” (without the quotes) in the address bar.
Pipelining
In the about:config screen, search for the following 2 entries by using control-F and change them to “True” by double clicking the row:
network.http.pipelining
network.http.proxy.pipelining
You can also search for the following, double click it, and set the max requests to 30
netword.http.pipelining
Restart Firefox and boom faster internet! Yay!
Zero pause time after clicks
Firefox by default delays a tiny bit after you click links. To reduce the wait period to zero do the following:
In the about about:config page right click anywhere and select new, then integer. Type “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set the value to “0″ (without quotes). That’s it!
Google Reader “Secret Theme”
One more thing for you Google Reader fans. There’s a secret code you can enter to get the left column to have a ninja appear similar to the ninja theme in Gmail. Just type in (like one of those old video game cheat codes): Up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right-B-A and voila a ninja appears on the left. To get rid of it, just put in the same sequence.
Hope these help and happy browsing!
Tags: Browser, Firefox, Google, Internet, Mozilla, Reader, RSS, Software, Technology, Tweaks