Tag: technophilia

Tech Tip: Hide/Disable the Chrome Download Shelf

January 26, 2012 – 4:20 pm

A common annoyance that I’ve finally found a fix for is this: Google Chrome, for all its virtues, likes to open up a download shelf at the bottom of your window whenever you download anything. This is a royal pain in the ass if you don’t have a magically infinite monitor, since it takes up [...]

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info @ the P.Pole 12.08.11

December 8, 2011 – 11:54 pm

I made something cool a couple nights ago. In true Carl-Pun fashion, I named it bookcase for all the things that it is and does. Features: A pen detainment apparatus that detains at most one fat pen (or maybe two skinny ones) A large, folio-style Moleskine garage that can house at most one Moleskine notebook [...]

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Hori Real Arcade Pro V3 Special Addition

September 28, 2011 – 9:53 pm

I really like fighting games, from 3D franchises, like Tekken and Soul Calibur, to the strictly 2D series, like Street Fighter (classic!) and all its crossovers with other universes (eg: Marvel vs Capcom, Capcom vs SNK, etc…). I own a few of these games for my PS3 but I’ve only been playing using my controllers, [...]

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Be Social, They Said

July 24, 2011 – 12:12 am

Facebook’s “Like” button is pretty ubiquitous as far as the Internet is concerned and I finally got around to finding a way to add it to my posts (you have to be on the post’s own page to see it) so to test it out, I wonder how many people will read this + click on the post’s [...]

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Casablanca Kids

June 11, 2011 – 10:59 am

Here’s the presentation I put together for my Marketing group presentation. I think it’s a pretty nifty demo of what Prezi can do, and it’s not all that hard to do. At first I was a little skeptical about its usefulness as far as actual content delivery was concerned, but the movement and zoomy fun [...]

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