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Prevent iPhoto from Opening When Connecting iPhone to Mac
If you have a Mac and also an iPhone just like me, you probably sync your iPhone to your Mac using iTunes. It just makes sense! However, you may have noticed that when you connect your iPhone to your Mac, the iPhoto application automatically opens also. Personally, I find this really annoying and end up closing iPhoto each time I connect my iPhone to my MacBook. Eventually, I decided to spend 5 minutes and fix the problem for good. Below [...]
Not Sure About A Tattoo? Try A Temporary Henna Tattoo!
I’ve never seen these Henna tattoos before today, and as I was reading about them, I learned they aren’t permanent. To get a Henna tattoo, you actually mix up a batch of paste called Henna. The tattoo lasts for 2-4 weeks before it finally fades away. This is a really cute idea if you want a test run of what it feels like to have a design on your skin for a while. Apparently you can buy a Henna kit [...]
8个好用的Safari Extensions
Apple在6月发布了Safari 5，正式推出了对浏览器插件的支持。然后Apple又在7月底推出了自家官方的Safari Extensions gallery, 用于展示一些很棒的extension.

我自己试用了一些插件，在这里特别推荐8个比较好用又不会影响浏览器美观的插件，个人很讨厌一些插件出现在tab栏下占用浏览器可视区域，Twitter for Safari就是一个例子。

PS: 官方gallery不是唯一一个可以找到并安装新插件的地方，推荐 SafariExtensions on Tumblr 和 Pimp My Safari ，这两个网站每日都会推荐一些有特色的extension.
Chopper Scooter, I’m Totally Serious
If scooters are too passe for your bad boy, Jesse James lovin’ ego, check out this Chopper Scooter. The motorized mover was designed with linear lines and flowing shapes in mind – anything to hide it’s true identity. Great way to bring up those kids and get them all indoctrinated into the culture. Designer: Dana Ben Nissan dtsv.dtse_post_1690_permalink = ‘http://www.mckaywei.com/?p=1690′; dtsv.dtse_post_1690_title = ‘Chopper Scooter, I’m Totally Serious’;
Google Search Fully Blocked in China
According to several reports and data from Google, the search engine is fully blocked in mainland China as of today. Also fully blocked are ads and mobile access. Image search is partially blocked, as are Google Docs, Google News and Google Groups. Other sites and apps that were previously and remain blocked include YouTube, search suggestions, Google Sites, Blogger and Picasa. Google and China have been at odds since at least the beginning of this year, when a “highly sophisticated [...]
GFW, 我们不高兴！Say No to GFW, 百万人反GFW审查大呛声
我们的主题是：反GFW封锁，反互联网审查，反上网实名制，反雇佣5毛，反对侵犯隐私权，监视公民邮信，电脑！GFW，我们不高兴！副标语：我要看Youtube，我要推Twitter，我要上Facebook找朋友，我要用Wikipedia学知识，我要赚外汇！GFW，我们不高兴！ GFW ,We are not happy ! （ GFW is Great Firewall of China’s Internet Censorship, it is the symbol of suppress the rights of speech and rights to know) I belive a million people will join together to say No! to GFW Our aims are: Anti-GFW (it blocking websites ) Anti-Internet censorship Anti-identity registration for use Internet Anti-paid commentator to manipulate public opinions Anti-infringe privacy Anti-tapping on people’s communications, Email, telephone,computer GFW ,We are not happy ! 以Google为例，当局坚持过滤搜索引擎从而逼走Google，这并不是一起对某1 [...]

The Day When Twitter Lost its Tweets

Jun 152010

Twitter is currently in a weird limbo. After having issues with missing tweets and incorrect tweet counts yesterday, and being down for the better part of the night, it is now up, but it has a different problem: all its tweets are gone. All the Twitter accounts we’ve checked, even Twitter’s official ones, are completely empty: they seem to work, but there are no visible tweets in the timeline. Twitter status blog has some info on the situation: “We’re currently experiencing site availability [...]

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. Awesome.

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May 092010

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. Awesome.

I can almost hear Ben Stein saying it right now. “Bueller?… Bueller?… Bueller?“ It’s been almost 25 years since Ferris Bueller took his day off from school. And yet, the legend lives on today thanks to Twitter and Foursquare. dtsv.dtse_post_1390_permalink = ‘http://www.mckaywei.com/?p=1390′; dtsv.dtse_post_1390_title = ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Being Played Out Live On Twitter And Foursquare. Awesome.’;