ProjectX Technology

Biz

• Customise your own legal agreements
• Stuck on what communication tool should you use ? Use this flowchart !
• Seth Godin on Business cards
• What is Enterprise 2.0?

Tech:

• RegExPal – A cool regular expression tester
• Reg-ex cheat sheet for javascript
• Banner Blindness
• How ads affect your memory
• Testing your site in multiple browsers

Geek:

• A real shooting star

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I’ve just trying to figure out why my windows XP is running like a dog. I have discovered two alarming things.

1. Windows Divx codec and player installs a toolbar that seems to appear every 2-3 minutes  in the system tray. After some googling I found that I have to download ToggleToolbar.exe to turn it off. What the f**k ??? Why do I have to download a program to turn off a system tray icon.
2. Google Desktop. I’ve had a love / hate relationship with google desktop. I love that I can search my machine for emails, documents etc. There are a couple of things that I hate. First, its steals my window focus all the time. I tried uninstalling some widgets but it still does it. And Second it has serious memory leaks. This morning the Desktop grew to 1.7Gb of Virtual Memory. ARRRGGGHHH. So I did as little experiment I close all the widgets and left it running from the toolbar. It grew to 700Mb within about an hour. So, bye bye Google desktop.

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A mac is looking more and more inviting everyday…

As spotted on Digg…

Here’s a Microsoft error message:

Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password that meets these requirements in both text boxes.

As they say you’re only as good as your password….

With all the recent discussions on Rod’s blog about Mobile pricing, some respite may soon be on the way. Telstra Clear have publically announced that they are launching soon. Hooray, hopefully we’ll get some competition.

Here’s what I’d like to see.

• Hygiene factors: Good Coverage, good quality sound and sim card compatibility, good customer service, and a good website so that I can customise what I need.
• Flat SMS rates 5c max for both Domestic and International ($10 txt has been out for years – Stop bundling and just set a lower cost.)
• Realistic pricing structure for SMS services – 5-7% royalty based on volume
• Data bundles $25 for 1Gb or $1 per 10 Mb adhoc
• Release Cell Tower ID’s so that we can unlock the world of location based services

What do you want to have from your Mobile provider?

Having worked with Rails for the past few weeks, I have discovered that it is awesome fun. So, when I encountered the time_select method of the DateHelper classes, and found that it outputs two drop downs for a single time (hours and minutes, three if you include seconds), I was not too happy.

Therefore I made a plugin for a single select for time. Time Picker is a plugin that gives you a nice view helper function for picking times.

So to install :

script/plugin install svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/timepicker/trunk

or

svn propset svn:externals 'timepicker svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/timepicker/trunk' vendor/plugins

This plugin is still quite alpha, so please use it and feel free report any problems or suggestions to me.