Sep 2011
29

Dreaming of “Young House Love”

by Desirai in Dreams, Noteworthy, Personal

Have you ever thought of something so much it starts creeping into your dreams? It happens to me all the time. Last night was no exception. Apparently I’ve been reading so much Young House Love lately that John and Sherry Petersik have become dream worthy. Don’t get me wrong Sherry is incredibly dreamy (John I hope you know how gorgeous your wife is), but the fact that I’m dreaming about blog authors definitely reaches new heights as far as my weird dreams are concerned.

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Sep 2011
16

Pilot Frixion Erasable Gel Pens

by Desirai in Design, Noteworthy, Personal

Pilot Pens
I know what you’re thinking. “Erasable pens? Those came out in the early 90s and they sucked.” You’re right. They did. The ink would easily smear and we were kind of screwed once we had worn our erasers down. The pens usually got tossed since they didn’t sell replacement erasers. We either learned to deal with our pen mistakes or covered them up with white out. Erasable pens were quickly forgotten… or so we thought.

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Aug 2011
02

Disabling Facebook’s New Photo Light Box

by Desirai in Plug-Ins, Add Ons & Extensions

“Oh look! New pictures of my nephew. He’s getting so big! :click: Wait, what the…?”

If your reaction was anything like mine then it’s probably safe to assume you’re not too happy with Facebook’s new image light box. My problem isn’t so much with the light box itself, it’s actually the black background that drives me totally nuts! At first I was hitting F5 (refresh) every time I clicked on a picture which bypassed the light box. If you’ve tried that then you already know how quickly it gets old. I searched around for a more permanent method and was so happy I found one.

Rambo Cat

I decided to go with a picture of my cat to protect the innocent.

If you’re using Firefox then you can install a Greasemonkey script that will permanently disable the light box. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit. You can use it to make a web site more readable or more usable. Download the “Facebook Lightbox Killer” script here. But be sure to install Greasemonkey first.

There was  a Chrome solution but apparently the Light box Killer has been removed from Google as per facebook’s request.

If you’re not ready to completely give up on the light box here are a few non-permanent solutions:

  • Refresh/Reload the page
  • Right Click picture then “Open in New Tab”
  • Remove the text ‘&theater’ from the address bar, when the picture is in theater mode, and press enter

[Source: AXLERATION]

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