The Great Geek Manual

Resources

5 Ways to Spice Up Your Gmail Signature – Sometimes the same old email signature day in and day out just won’t cut it. If you’re a Gmail (Gmail) user looking for some ways to mix it up a bit, you’ve come to the right place. Here are five ways to spice up your Gmail signature.

16 Javascript Tutorials Inspired By Social Networking Sites – A compilation of great scripts that allow users to simulate social networking features on their own websites, including: dZone Voting Systems, Facebook Style Chat, Twitter-Like Searches.

17 Awesome Firefox Plugins For Twitter – Everyday we are noticing new Twitter tools are coming up. There are lots of Firefox plugins too for Twitter which will make your Twitter experience even better.

Chopping the Numeric Keypad off a Keyboard – Here are step-by-step directions for removing that irritating numeric keypad off a Microsoft Natural Keyboard. The project looks simple enough.

Codepad – Is a like a a collaborative debugging tool like Pastebin with a built-in compiler/interpreter.

FaxZero – This service allows users to fax up to six pages a day for free, which could be seriously useful to folks hunting for jobs online.

jQuery.popeye – Popeye is a sleek alternative to the ubiquitous Lightbox photogallery. It provides an inline slideshow that can be enlarged to fill the page by users. It’s very easy to use, and I suspect it will rapidly overtake lightbox in terms of popularity.

New Facebook iPhone App – The new application includes events, Facebook page management, full access to the news feed, the ability to create and edit notes, video upload, and more. This iteration is a significant upgrade and given that the application has over 4 million daily active users and 12 million monthly users, this will be a much welcomed upgrade.

Personas – Alright, if you’re the sort of person who is constantly Googling yourself, you have to check this out. Personas generates a visualization of the sort of data that is available about you online, whether its social, business, educational, or other.

Top 6 Search Engines For Designers To Find Icons – Pelfusion offers up advice on how to find those icons that designers seem to be so crazy about lately.

YouTube Comment Snob – YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal: spelling mistakes, capital letters, and profanity, etc.

Discussion

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How to Manage Your Online Life When You’re Dead

Entertainment

The 10 Stupidest Tech Company Blunders
Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009
House Made Of 110 Tons of Steel – This amazing house is the almost finished Steel House by the artist Robert Bruno. The house build near the city of Lubbock in Texas.

Tech News

Bing Reported as Running on Linux
The first video ad will be published in a paper magazine in September
Windows 7 Half the Price in the U.K.