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Dive in for some cool carabiner-based cable management, Hulu commercial skipping, and Google Voice Visual Speed Dialing on your iPhone.
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Traveling With Your Electronic Gear
Richard needed a way to organize his electronic gear for traveling. Here's what he came up with:
After searching far and wide for an easy-to-use organizer for my laptop bag and not finding one, I made my own. It is the same size as my MacBook, so it fit easily into my laptop bag.
I bought a Booq zipper laptop sleeve and added some elastic bands and cord and a little velcro to fit what I need on most trips. I added a $2 zipper pencil case from Target for the little stuff and it works like sin.
I stitched the elastic bands, velcro, and elastic cord using a leather sewing tool which works great. If I had an electric sewing machine that could handle the thickness of the Booq case, that would have been even better.
Skipping Hulu Commercials
Kathryn wrote in with a tip on how to effortlessly "block" commercials during Hulu video playback:
The Firefox extension Adblock Plus version 1.02 enabled and subscribed to "Easylist USA" causes all commercials except the 7 second intro commercial to be skipped. The screen goes dark for a few seconds at each commercial - then the show resumes.
Carabiner Cable Management
Zachariah shared his way of clearing cable clutter:
I'm a rock climber. I was looking at some carabiners and thought that if these were hung under the desk surface, they would be great to keep the cables together and easy to add and remove cables from. I've got a bunch of carabiners lying around but they are easy to find at most outdoor stores, or even a hardware store. The climbing ones are a bit of an overkill as they are rated for around 5500lbs. The hardware store variety are more than adequate. To mount the carabiners to the bottom of the work surface, I made some brackets out of some AllRound Steel Strapping. Each bracket uses a short length (5 holes), bent in the middle to form a rounded gap and screwed to the work surface (remember to put perpendicular to the back edge of the work surface). You can also use some pre-made hangers if you want. That is about all there is to it.
Adding Google Voice Visual Speed Dial to the iPhone
Eric found a way to add Google Voice Visual Speed Dial to his iPhone:
1. Add the GV gadget to your iGoogle page.
2. Click on contacts. Find the unique URL for the contact you want to create a speed dial icon for. Let's use "mom." URL will be something like https://www.google.com/voice/m/contact/62875768456345.
3. Find a picture of mom. Resize it to 57 x 57, and save as PNG.
4. Go to iPhone Webclip Icons. Upload the image of your mom. Name it "mom" and paste the URL from your GV Contacts. Put in your email address, and you probably DONT want to make it public.
5. Create shortcut.
Voila — you'll be emailed a link that includes your mom's picture as a fav icon. Add it to your home screen. Now whenever you want to call home, just click on her picture. It'll launch her GV contact info, and then you can select which number to call.
Hide Those Facebook App Messages, Again.
Jeff wrote in to tell us that the previously mentioned Facebook Purity Greasemonkey script started blocking all of his feeds, then offers this tip that fixes the script (for those willing to dive into the user script):
I noticed fbpurity was blocking all feeds. I looked into the script and determined that changing two instances of
footernodes[i].parentNode.parentNode.therestofthelineto just
footernodes[i].parentNode.therestofthelinefixes the script.
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