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autosize

I hate it when a website auto-resizes your main browser window. There is simply no good explanation for why programmers do this, let alone, why javascript allows code to change the dimensions of your only active window. I get that some people have small screens, but seriously? Do you have to assume that I don't know how to make the browser bigger or heaven forbid I have to use the scrollbars. I know there are options in Firefox to disable script access to this, but really? I have to turn it off for every site because some programmers were too busy to check if their window is already big enough to see the terrible flash rich content I'm about to throw using? My display has 2560pixels wide by 1600pixels high.. Couldn't say everything you wanted to say about [Insert Retarded Motion Picture ADVersite Here] with only 4 million pixels?

get an rss reader (aka, use an rss reader)

this is a story about using an rss reader. They are great. You don't have to go to the website anymore, just sit back and have it download new articles for you. Pretty much all blogs and websites provide rss streams for you now. You can even follow comments without needing to refresh

for osx: Use NetNewsWire
It's fast, configurable, looks nice, lightweight, rad

for win: use NetNewsWire for osx on the mac you are going to buy, or use google reader with some kind of notifier. Or I think firefox can act as an rss reader. use that

Congrats grad, you now will waste more time watching your rss reader and immediately switch from whatever you are doing to it when you see a new article has popped up.

Oh, and..


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