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At first, i was amazed how Firefox 3’s new ability to capture my browsing habit by suggesting past URL browsed. Until, most of outdated addons are starting to be updated to match the new version. Now my favorite browser is back to its habit, slow loaded. So today i decide to give it a tiny make up, just to make it comfortable to me, by weaken (not killing) the smart location bar.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Open a new tab, type about:config into the URL bar
2. You’ll be prompt by THIS MIGHT VOID YOUR WARRANTY. Screw it, tick on Show this warning next time so it won’t show up the next time you screwing the configuration. You’re losing your warranty anyway
3. Now paste this: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults into the filter and hit enter.
4. Double-click the integer and set it to whatever number you like to. The default is 20 which i think is too much. While setting it to 0 mean totally killing it, i set it up to 5 instead.
5. Clear you cache (hit ctrl+shift+delete), tick only CACHE and hit CLEAR PRIVATE DATA NOW or simply restart your Firefox.

I like this new feature, as long as it doesn’t suggest too much. Now my Firefox still able to sneak my browsing history and suggest relevan URL in much comfortable way.

I’ve been trying to understand what are these guys doing for several days until this one. The 4th episode, which is not too geeky. It’s understandably funny.

From Laughing Squid i understand that it’s actually a daily show program called Good Morning Internet which broadcast every morning for 15 episodes, which will run daily for three weeks. The series runs by Poypac, the Brooklyn based comedy group and broadcast on IFC.

This one is from the 4th episode which titled Things to Fear. One of them are weird laws. Well if they live in my country, they can die laughing on our weird laws :D.

All in all this video is hilarious.

Via Mike Hayes 19 at ShowHype.

This is probably the biggest LED screen in the world, located in Comcast Center in Philadelphia. It measures 83.3ft x 25.4ft and cost $22 million to made.

It’s too big for hosting a Wordpress or MediaWiki how to tutorials but this huge screen is hugely amazing.

Image and Story via Geeks are Sexy.

My German friend send me text messages last night:

Hey, another year passed by, so one more candle for me. It’s my birthday on Saturday 21 June. Join us for drinks and snacks starting at 19.00. …address…

Be there or i block you from my Facebook.

Awesome, i’m there!

I am struggling to customize Pligg templates because the theme structure is a bit more complicated. Unlike other CMS like Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla or even MediaWiki, Pligg theme is not the easiest to customize. I run 2 Pligg powered sites, one of them started with a paid theme from the Pligg Pro Store. But even from the official support site, the template is ‘not that good’. I still need to put my hands, i mean put a lot of work, to the template before i feel it’s cool enough and looks different from other Pligg sites.

However, this morning i came across this site, FoxieWire, a dedicated all thing Mozilla news that powered by Pligg. The theme is basically modified default yget template but modified into a very cool one. Other cool Pligg site is definetely Design Float.

All in all, i love Pligg. Forget the rude Digg users, you can run your own niche social voting site using Pligg.

It’s Firefox Download Day.

When i check the download site, i saw the number of downloading is 6.069.208. That’s certainly a Guiness Book of Records because noone has ever done this before. However, Firefox has celebrating the day by allowing users to print their certificate of the record breaking attempt, even if it’s not approved yet by the Guinness Book of Records.

If you have download Firefox 3, then you can click here, type your name and download your certificate in PDF format.

If you haven’t download the browser, then you should. It’s FREE, it’s far safer than Internet Explorer, and you can enjoy web more with simply the best browser in the market today.

Via Digital Inspiration.

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Steve Ballmer gets an egg treatment on his visit to a University in Hungary recently. It’s a privilage to throw eggs to probably the biggest tech company’s CEO, really. However, now anyone can have that exclusive rights and can throw more eggs than ever to the lovable Microsoft CEO.

If you don’t follow the story of the egg treatment, below is the video of the incident:

And this is how the egg throwing game looks like (beside playing as the student, you can choose to be Steve Ballmer too!):

My latest score was 772. Leading Microsoft is not easy, but after playing the game, being an egg thrower is not easy too.

Here’s the site where you can play. I’m off to try as Steve Ballmer.

Below video is Cisco CEO John Chambers interact with Marthin De Beer, Senior Vice President of Emerging Technology Group. Yeah… so what’s new about it?

Well, what’s new is, Mr. John Chambers was in India while Mr. Martin De Beer was in Los Angeles.

How on earth this guys can do it? Find out here.

Commoncraft has done it again (i embed several of their explanation videos in the past). Their style of explanation is phenomenally simple and yet effective. As simple and effective as generating clones like this TV ad.

This time they come up with Social Media in Plain English. This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say.

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

They also offer downloadable versions from all their video products that are high resolution and licensed for use in the workplace in the Commoncraft Store. Above video transcript is also available here.

Expect for their influence more on how mainstream internet users understand the Web 2.0. in the future.