wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

wikked thoughts by Waqas Ahmed

yet another geek blog about Seattle, food, gadgets, games and the art of laziness

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Archive for October, 2006

Playing Dark Messiah of Might & Magic

I’m definitely showing my age when I admit I’ve played Might & Magic parts III to VIII on the PC. So I didn’t think twice about getting my hands on Dark Messiah of Might & Magic. I hadn’t followed any of the previews and the typical hype so I’d been expecting this to be a [...]

Scrybe beta opens today

Scrybe - a next generation organizer, personal information manager and online calendar has started its beta program. I’ve seen the video and I’ve seen early versions of the calendar and related features. It’s definitely a poke in the eye for existing solutions by google et. al. Full review later. In the meantime you can keep [...]

Firefox 2 spell checking

Finally, I no longer need an extension to turn on spell checking within the browser. Firefox 2 has an inline spell checker. My first problem with it was that by default it is turned on for text area fields only. To turn it on for input fields too, type about:config in the address bar, search [...]

Firefox 2 and tab mix plus

Firefox 2 is out. First problem? My favorite extension, tab mix plus, stopped working. Even though the default Firefox tab behavior is much improved, it still can’t hold a candle to the level of customization I was used to. Fortunately there is a beta of TMP that you can download which works with Firefox 2.
Initial [...]