I really hate it when developers change something when the old system worked just as well if not better than the new one. Mozilla did it when they got rid of the lock icon if FireFox and it looks like google just did when they moved the tabs in iGoogle.

The old iGoogle had tabs at the top of the page, like almost every other website.

Old iGoogle tabs

 However the new iGoogle has moved the tabs to the side.

New iGoogle tabs

 

If you are like me and want the old tabs back then follow these 3 easy steps…

1) Go to http://www.google.co.uk/ig?hl=en

2) Click the sign in button in the top right corner and if prompted sign in

3) Enjoy the old iGoogle tabs and update any bookmarks or homepage settings

Now that google translate has Hebrew, I can’t help but feel that the other Jewish languages must feel left out. However here is a list of good resources for other Jewish languages.

Yiddish

There is a good Yiddish/English dictionary here.

There is a Yiddish wikipedia here.

Ladino

There is a good Ladino dictionary here.

Dzhidi

Unfortunately there is not a lot about Dzhidi on the Internet, however wikipedia does have an article about it here.

Want to piss off your friends? Here is my list of the top five keyboard shortcuts to use on people. (these will only work on Windows computers)

1) Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow — This key-command will rotate your monitor 180 degrees, it can be very funny to watch someone go to login to a computer and find the screen facing the wrong direction. Unfortunately this will only work on computers with Intel graphics chipsets.

2) left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN — This shortcut will turn on the high contrast visibility setting on any given computer. This is a good way to confuse and piss of people.

3) Alt+F4 — This command is very well know and won’t always work, but if you can find a newbie doing something important having their program close on them can be very entertaining.

4) Windows Key+M — If Alt+F4 fails this command may still be able to do a similar job, instead of closing the active program this command minimizes all open programs.

5) Windows Key+ D then Alt+F4 then Enter — This can be very funny and get you seriously hurt, but it will do a good job of shutting down any version of windows.

The function below will look for numerically numbered images (or any other type of file) on any giving website. The function will echo weather or not it found anything, if it found something it will return the html image code(s) for it.

/*When calling the function $istop should equal 1. $name should equal the name you want to echo. $imgurl should equal the image url until the number (if you had http://naterocks.com/image1.gif then the url would be http://naterocks.com/image), $ext should equal the file extension (you do not have the put a “.”, in the example above this would mean that $ext=”gif”), $number equals the number that you want to start searching from, $nwe is how many images you want per line, and $nwt should equal 1 when being called.*/

//to call use $variable=look_image(1,$name,$imgurl,$ext,$number,$nwe,1); 

 function look_image($istop,$name,$imgurl,$ext,$number,$nwe,$nwt)
{

$url=$imgurl.$number.”.”.$ext;
if( !fopen($url, “r”) )
    {
      if ($istop==1)
       {$nwf=0;}
      echo ($name.” searching ended on number:”.$number.”<br>”);
    }
    else {
    if ($istop==1)
     { echo (”<b>New “.$name.”(s) found!</b>”);
     $post=”\n\n[b]New “.$name.”(s):[/b] \n”;
      }
    echo(”<br><img src=’”.$url.”‘><br>”);
    if ($nwe!=$nwt)
    { $post=$post.”<img src=’”.$url.”‘>”; }
    else
    { $post=$post.”<img src=’”.$url.”‘> \n”;
    $nwt=0; }
         //some math
    $number++;
    $nwt++;
    //keep looking
    $nwf=$post.look_image(0,$name,$imgurl,$ext,$number,$fname,$nwe,$nwt);
    }
 return $nwf;
}

I made an image to help me study the rules for oxidation numbers. Rules are credit my chemistry teacher, image is credit me. (click on the image below to see it full size)