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7 things

7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. You can search for images on Google with the exact dimensions you need, by adding to your search query 'imagesize:1280×960' (no quotation marks, and change the numbers to the width and height you are looking for)
  2. Four out of the last five US presidents have been left-handed.
  3. There appears to be a word to describe a wad of wet toilet paper that is thrown in the air and stuck to the ceiling. I found no evidence via Google, but friends who were raised as far apart as Staffordshire and Australia agree that it's called a flobby dobb.
  4. 'The smartest man in the world is gay'.
  5. In Windows Photo Gallery on Vista you can tag whole batches of images at once by dragging and dropping them on to a tag.
  6. Matt Mullenweg is a Dvorak user. That is to say, the 25-year-old who founded the blogging software WordPress types with a keyboard where letters are shuffled around for easier access.
  7. Even if you do not set Outlook to manually send messages with the 'Send/Receive' button, if you right-click on a file and select the 'Send to > Mail recipient' option, it gets sent right away. I only use Outlook at work, so it could be a Windows XP thing.
Posted by Luca in 7 things on Saturday 31 January 2009. Please leave a comment

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