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  • Kevin Chiu 2:26 pm on March 25, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    The MS Office Killer makes its move. 

    google docs offline

    Today I logged into Google Docs and found a prompt that offered a taste of Google Docs with offline capabilities, courtesy of Google Gears.

    Microsoft should be shaking in its boots. Office is one of MS’s biggest money makers, and if people find that Google Docs, which no longer requires a net connection, is a fitting application for everyday office collaboration, sales of MS Office are set to plummet.

     
    • http://bowandarrow.livejournal.com/ 2:55 pm on April 3, 2008 Permalink

      i’ll have to try this out sometime! i’ve used the online version (of Google Docs), and I’m not yet convinced that Google Docs really has an advantage over Word. We shall see!

  • Kevin Chiu 8:31 pm on March 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Game of the Year 

    Super Smash Bros. Brawl

    I played Super Smash Brothers, and it was good.
    I played Super Smash Brothers Melee, and it was awesome.

    This coming spring break, I will play Super Smash Brothers Brawl, and it will defy my ability to express it’s euphoria-extolling virtues with mere superlatives.

     
    • andyehou 7:32 pm on March 19, 2008 Permalink

      That’s funny, I feel the opposite:

      I played Super Smash Brothers, and it was the best moment of my childhood.
      I played Super Smash Brothers Melee, and it was okay.
      I played Super Smash Brothers Brawl, and it was terrible.

    • Kevin Chiu 10:00 am on March 24, 2008 Permalink

      I have to admit I wasn’t blown away at first, but the game grows on you.

      If another game comes out this year that’s better than this one, I’ll have to update this post.

  • Kevin Chiu 1:58 pm on March 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Adblock Plus for Safari 

    adblock plus for safari

    Thanks to Safari Adblock, I can finally use Safari as my main browser.

    Safari Adblock, as the name suggests, is a Safari preference pane utility for blocking ads. The best part is that it automatically synchronizes with the Adblock Plus online ad database, eliminating the need for you to write individual regular expressions for each group of ads you want to block.

     
    • David 4:42 pm on June 4, 2009 Permalink

      Safari Adblock is pretty cool, but is not hiding as many elements as Adblock Plus does for Firefox.
      That is rather unfortunate if one wants to switch.
      The reason for not hiding these elements seems to be that the possibility to do so just isn’t implemented. The elements are actually in the loaded database but not blocked…

    • Kevin Chiu 8:42 pm on June 6, 2009 Permalink

      Can you give an example URL and ad? I’d like to test it on Safari and Firefox.

    • slonkak 6:57 pm on June 8, 2009 Permalink

      If you find anything out, please let me know. I’m hoping to switch to Safari since v4 can now do 100/100 on the Acid3 test.

    • Kevin Chiu 9:09 pm on June 9, 2009 Permalink

      @slonkak
      Safari Adblock Plus is working great on Safari 4 for me.

    • Josh 2:43 pm on June 10, 2009 Permalink

      Kevin,

      Try this url with adblock in Firefox and adblock in Safari. Notice “Story continues below” still appears.

      http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31208188/

      -Josh

    • Kevin Chiu 7:55 am on June 11, 2009 Permalink

      Hmm, I tried adding a custom filter, and it didn’t work. Perhaps it has something to do with the ad being loaded through javascript?

    • Kevin Chiu 10:03 pm on June 12, 2009 Permalink

      Anyways, Adblock on Safari works with pretty much all other ads.

    • Derek 12:54 pm on August 7, 2009 Permalink

      It doesn’t seem to block the ads on facebook (the “sponsored” block near the top-right of the page), which AdBlockPlus on Firefox does. As another example. :-)

    • ReneeLS 8:52 pm on August 7, 2009 Permalink

      Another example: the IMDB.com site – which is, sadly, running large Flash banners on top of the page. They appear in Safari, not Firefox, using AdBlock.

    • ReneeLS 8:52 pm on August 7, 2009 Permalink

      Meant to say, “…using AdBlock Plus.”

    • bia 12:23 am on May 25, 2010 Permalink

      ir doesn’t block much on safari, a little though, the one for firefox is blocking every ad…

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