While composing an email on my iPhone I noticed that a bunch of ancient email addresses were showing up when I click the to: field. At first I thought they were saved in my contacts somewhere and I could delete them, but they weren’t, and I couldn’t. Turns out the iPhone is saving all the [...]
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Download All Inline Images in Gmail? NEIN!
December 15th, 2011 
justinI just got an email with about 40 inlined images (not attachments) and noticed Gmail doesn’t have an option to save them all locally! If the images were attachments Gmail has a very nice Download All option where you get a zip file of everything, but no such option exists for inline images. Apparently Yahoo! [...]
Ctrl+Shift+P to Print Selection in Google Chrome
December 1st, 2011 justinEver since switching to Chrome a few years ago I’ve missed the ‘print selection’ feature where you can print just a highlighted block of text. You can choose to print only certain page numbers in Chrome, but if the piece you want spans a page break you end up with a bunch of superfluous garbage [...]
TiVo iPhone App in Worse Shape Than Greece
October 11th, 2011 justinSo I’ve been a TiVo user for most of the last decade, recently retiring my old Series 2 boxes and picking up a Premiere. It’s got a lot of good things going for it but has some strange polish problems too, like why do some of the menus still show up in the old 4:3 [...]
Apple TV Slideshow Speed Unchangeable [Update: Sort Of?]
October 4th, 2011 justinWell this one was a little surprising, the latest Apple TV (2nd generation, software v4.3) doesn’t have the option to change the speed of your slideshow. All my other devices let me set the length of time between slides; TiVo, Panasonic TV, Boxee Box, but why not the Apple TV? It apparently switches slides based [...]
Sync iOS Device to a New Computer? You Are Screwed.
March 25th, 2011 justinSyncing your iPhone/iPad/iTouch with a new computer should be a piece of cake right? People get new computers or have to format old computers all the time. Turns out it is actually impossible to do without losing something; your music or videos, maybe your program data like saved games or the layout and organization of [...]
More Dell Win7 64-Bit: Upgrade WiFi & Restore SD Reader
March 10th, 2011 justinI’ve previously mentioned my trials with upgrading a couple year old Dell Vostro 1500 laptop to Windows 7 64-bit. The latest problems were spotty WiFi speeds with the default Win7 driver (or possibly a congested wireless channel) and no driver at all for the built-in SD card reader. Google turned up a Vista 64-bit driver for [...]
Restore Laptop Trackpad Scrolling Under Win 7 64-Bit
March 6th, 2011 justinI noticed after upgrading my Vostro 1500 to Windows 7 64-bit that I had lost vertical/horizontal scrolling on the trackpad, the generic driver Win 7 installed doesn’t appear to have those features. Of course searching Dell’s site was a waste of time as they only have 32-bit Vista drivers, why update their drivers when that [...]
Full Text RSS Feed Builder Does What It Says (Usually)
March 2nd, 2011 justinOn my continuing Mission To Restore RSS Sanity where feeds have become variously; perfunctorily truncated, plastered with ads, embedded with comments and spammed with links, I have run into Full Text RSS Feed Builder. You plug in a website and it spits out your new full text RSS feed link. In my tests it made a decent Ars Techinca [...]
Vista Explorer Better Than Win 7, How Can It Be?
February 27th, 2011 justinSomehow Microsoft managed to screw up one decent feature they had in Vista when making Windows 7. In windows explorer you could freeze the favorites pane in the top left of the window, i.e. lock them on-screen at the top of the navigation pane. This was extremely handy for moving files around from download folders [...]
