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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. Firefox lets you select an unlinked URL, drag it in the address bar and it will open it for you. Similarly, you can drag and drop an image from Firefox into Photoshop, or into a Windows folder. Also tried these in IE6 and IE7, but they both went 'Huh?'
  2. T9 stands for text on 9 keys (via kottke remaindered links)
  3. The cartoon Dora the Explorer has bits in Spanish and a computer interface-inspired arrow that points and clicks at things. Might knock Lazy Town off the top spot as my favourite Saturday morning entertainment.
  4. The iPhone ringtone sounds like holy angels tinkling.
  5. Jacques Lu Cont, Les Rythmes Digitales, Thin White Duke, Zoot Woman, Paper Faces, Man with Guitar, S.D.P., Man Behind the Mask and Pour Homme are all Stuart Price monikers (via Brugo)
  6. Jade Goody is of mixed blood. Ah well, that proves it then that 'she is not racial' and therefore did not mean any harm at all when she called Bollywood star and fellow Celebrity Big Brother contestant Shetty 'Shilpa Poppadum'.
  7. Julius Caesar was a hungry bottom (via Towleroad)

One Response to “7 things I did not know last week”

  1. David Says:

    Safari will do both of the Firefox tricks. But the dropping a picture into Photoshop works on IE on my PC at work.

    Here's a handy tip for you. In Photoshop, select the dropper. Now click and hold it down and drag to anywhere on your desktop or any application. You can select the colour of anything, anywhere.

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