Yearly Archives: 2011

My Favorite Safari Extension – Ultimate Status Bar

 in Tech  tagged apps / extension / mac / review / safari / software by

I love Safari as my default browser.  But there was one little tiny thing that drove me nuts: you don’t see the URL when you hover over a hyperlink.  I often found myself right-click > copy link > paste in text editor.  Annoying.

I finally decided to see if anyone else shared my annoyance and if anyone else did something about it.  I came across the Ultimate Status Bar extension and immediately tried it out.  Simple, Perfect and Exactly what I was looking for.  I love it when I get small wins like this!

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Heres a screen shot from the Ultimate Status Bar download page:

Cheap and Easy Puppy Cam with iCam 1

 in Puppy / Tech  tagged android / apps / mac / Puppy / puppycam / software by

Yeah, she’s cute isn’t she?  She’s about 5 months old in that picture.  During the early weeks/months of crate training she would whine when we left her but when we came home she would be sleeping like a little angle.  So we were wondering how long she was whining when we left.

A couple of our friends had a similar situation with their dog crying and destroying things while they were at work.  They ended up installing a web cam so they could check on him during the day.  I was intrigued and was looking for a weekend project, so I decided to look into “puppy cams”.

I did some googling and ended up on a bunch of hybrid technology + pet lovers message boards (yeah, the internet has everything).  Most of the suggestions involved dropping some $$ at Best Buy and calling Comcast to get a static IP address — neither of these things sounded like fun.  But eventually (buried on some message board somewhere) I came across iCam by SKJM.

This was perfect!   (more…)