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Whenever you try to install a Firefox plug-in you usually get a warning stating “Firefox has prevented this site from asking you to install software on your computer”. If you actually read this, which most people do not, you then notice two options in the upper right hand corner of your browser window, as below.

What you are actually suppose to do is not really clear because the implications to a non-techie are hard to understand. (We, as techies, understand that Firefox has not been instructed that this site is “legit” and needs permission to install the plug-in, that we have to create an exception to allow it to be installed.) The options may seem easy since there are only two to choose from, but since most people don’t understand why they need to edit the options, they simply may not and instead click the X. The problem being that the necessary steps are unclear.

Shareaholic.com has bent around this issue as to make installing their plug-in completely pain free by creating a mini step-by-step how-to. See below:

Yes. There is more to read, but less to understand. It’s just 4 easy to follow steps. Fantastic! I love this!

What is Shareaholic?

Oh, I should mention, since you may be wondering, Shareaholic is also a really useful plug-in that makes submitting articles and bookmarks to your favorite social news and bookmarking sites pain free.

Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re viewing to digg, del.icio.us, facebook, google bookmarks, magnolia, reddit, stumbleupon and twitter. If you prefer, you can also e-mail the web page to a friend.

Developers should take note as to what they have done, you don’t have to put up with lousy errors. You can easily find ways to remove their heuristic nature to your benefit.

“I don’t eat anything that has a face”. BearsAndBuds.com has a collection of fruit and vege disguised as living animals like the one below.

View them all at:
http://www.bearsandbuds.com/July2007/Veggie-Art-July07.asp

I nearly fell down on the floor laughing after I watched this video from the Jamie Kennedy Experiment… Priceless!

Flash Memory keys, those little USB storage devices, are fantastic for easily storing and moving data around. Of course the problem is that should you lose it, or have it stolen, any sensitive data that may be on the device is now in someone else’s hands. Corsair has a come up with a pretty cool solution, a padlock for your USB key.

Two flavors to pick from, 1GB and 2GB, work on both Windows and Apple Macintosh computers. Simply come up with a PIN number and the device will automatically lock itself when you remove it from your computer.

There is also an area for you to register your PIN number on their website so in case you forget it, you can always retrieve it from them.

Read more about it at Corsair’s website:
http://www.corsairmemory.com/products/padlock.aspx

Anatomical symbols… They save us from embarrassing moments like accidentally walking into the wrong bathroom, they let us know which door to go into. Nuacco.com has posted a bunch of pretty funny and clever male/female restroom signs, like the one below.

View more at:
http://www.nuacco.com/2007/08/13/which-door-should-i-choose/

   
It is pretty amazing what people can create simply with some sugar, water, flower and a little food dye. Gnyc.net has a rather long list of cakes sorted by themes, Halloween, Sixties, Mini Cakes (my favorite) and plenty more.

Each of the cakes listed has a link below them to the baker so you’ll be able to know who to call when it comes time to order one up.

The new BoingBoing.net website is taking a tiny bit of flack for its redesign, people are claiming that it has an “ad-supported-template” feel to it. The site right now currently has 9 ads, 4 of which are individual Google Text Links. A quick hop over to archive.org you can see that there are 12-16 ads, no Google text ads for the given day day. (12-16 depending on how you “look” at a couple.) I’d add all those image links running down the left side even if they are more “blog roll” like simply because there is no way to know if they are ads or not.

The legibility is about 100x better, the previous tiny text and lack of real post divisions I felt always made the site hard to read. No it is so much easier to read, scan for interesting articles. The navigation links on the top make them feel like “first class citizens” where previously they seemed to lack any importance. I am not sure how important this is, but I will be curious to see if this helps boost their usage.

Great job guys!

Read about the redesign in their own words:
Welcome to the new Boing Boing!

Hungry? Maybe need to cook for the week… mjgradziel.com has a recipe for a 17lb Portabella Mushroom Avocado Burger!

Go to the recipe… Tons of pictures!
http://mjgradziel.com/burger/giant_burger.html

A couple of gorgeous slow motion videos of corn kernels popping… Popcorn!

Ashlee Smith, a Salt Lake City, UT resident, made a peculiar discovery in her Grandfather’s garden recently, a tomato with a strawberry growing inside.

I wonder what Mother Nature will think up next…

You can view a video with Ashley and her grandfather over at abc4.com.

Spoiler
Ok… If you watch the video above found at abc4.com, you’ll discover that it is not actually a strawberry. The tomato just formed in such a way as to resemble a strawberry.

artlebedev.com has a set of six Russian influenced wooden figures each representing a Bit, Byte, Kilobyte, Megabyte, Gigabyte and Terabyte! The cost is 950 rubles or approximately $33.78 US dollars.

Don’t ask me what you’d do with them… I just think they are pretty cool!

I remember once when I was young when I was doing my own laundry for the first time I put some bleach in, thinking “this’ll do it”. Yeah… I completely ruined some of my favorite t-shirts.

Well, Phelyx Hopkins, an artist living in Denver, has a really cool tutorial on how to use bleach in your favor, to make a really fantastic Koi Fish imprint onto a black t-shirt.

Check out the tutorial at: http://www.stencilrevolution.com/

Phelyx’s Homepage: http://phelyx.com/