It was nice to see the app only asking for my birth year and month.  It obviously wasn’t created to data mine.

The app also [...]]]> A Facebook app called AtomicAge was created in an effort to raise nuclear weapon proliferation awareness by showing the sometimes surprising number of nuclear weapon detonations since your birthday.

It was nice to see the app only asking for my birth year and month.  It obviously wasn’t created to data mine.

The app also has this gem:

“Note: We don’t need to know your exact birthday and we suggest you don’t give your exact birth date to strangers.”

There’s also a really neat (yet scary once you think about it) video created by Hashimoto Isao once you find out your Atomic Age reminiscent of Atari games.

It allows you to write as much as you wish and post a shortened message with a link to the full text on Twitter.  Unlike Tall [...]]]> Those loquacious few who use Twitter must have run across the predicament of hitting the tweet max character limit and still have more to write.  For them, there’s a little utility called Longtweet.

It allows you to write as much as you wish and post a shortened message with a link to the full text on Twitter.  Unlike Tall Tweets, TwitLonger, and RichTweets, there is no need to give Longtweet access to your twitter account.  It’s safe!

However, I recently ran across an even better tool called Font Picker.  It loads all the fonts available on your computer and lets you supply custom text for preview. [...]]]> I wrote up a simple page to view fonts online.  If your system didn’t have one of the fonts listed it would load as monospace.

However, I recently ran across an even better tool called Font Picker.  It loads all the fonts available on your computer and lets you supply custom text for preview.  This all works online (although there is an option to download a standalone app).

I can assure you, I’ve added this to my web toolkit.  Selecting the proper font is no easy task.

Try Font Picker yourself.

The result ended up [...]]]> There’s a good tutorial over at Instructables on making custom ethernet prongs out of zip-ties if the original snapped off.  I had a busted cat5 cable causing me trouble and, surprisingly, I had the right size zip ties stowed away in my electronic gear.  So, I gave it a shot.

The result ended up better than expected.  The only adjustment I made was to loop some electrical tape around the prong piece to keep everything tidy and secure the prong in place.

Who knows why the guy that designed ethernet cable heads placed the prong point towards the cable and away from the plug.  They are extremely fragile and frequently snap off when you simply try to pull a cable from behind a desk or out of a nest of wires.  You’d think there would be a ubiquitous design that doesn’t have this flaw.

I’m actually tempted to snap off all the prongs on all my cables and replace them with zip-ties since this hack version correctly points the prong away from the wire making untangling much safer.