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Vimperator -- vimified browsing (at last)

I have found the coolest productivity tool since vim. Vimperator! This allows you to do modal browsing much in the same way that vim does. The greatest thing is that it allows you to write maps (keybindings) that can dramatically improve your productivity on the web. What is so great about modal editing and browsing? You don't have to use that pesky mouse as much anymore. Your fingers stay near home row more often and allow you to control almost everything from they keyboard.

Here is a link from linux.com that has a somewhat decent discussion about it. I am sure there will be many more articles written bout this great tool. Here is the offical wiki.


It is only at version 0.52 as of this writing so I am sure there are improvements to come but it already has vastly sped up my surfing. One vim like feature I would like to see is the visual mode for selecting things. Your mappings and customizations (like vimrc file) are stored in a file named vimperator. Here is what my vimperatorrc file looks like so far:


set activate=quickmark,paste
set nobeep
set complete=sbfh
set defsearch=google
set guioptions=
set maxhints=1000
set preload
set previewheight=20
set showmode
set showstatuslinks
set showtabline=2
set titlestring=Vimperator Dev
set verbose=9
set wildmode=list:full

" start MozRepl
js < :restart

" select next/previous tab
map gt
map gT
map ,src :source ~/.vimperatorrc

" move current tab left/right
map :tabmove! +1
map :tabmove! -1

" move up and down one page
map
map

" Tab maps
map :tabopen
map :tabnext
map :tabprevious

" backward and forward
map gk :back
map gj :forward

map :quit

echo .vimperatorrc sourced

" vim: ft=vimperator sw=2 sts=2



New Job

I gave my resignation to Sigmatel on Monday. I will be doing the same kind of work (pre-silicon verification) but as a contractor/consultant at Analog Devices here in Austin. They are a pretty good company and they are starting to use some of the newer verification methodologies so I will be helping them bring this up. Should be very exciting. The world of verification is getting very exciting!

Read more at blog.360.yahoo.com/blog...

CNN.com - Study: Earth 'likely' hottest in 2,000 years - Jun 22, 2006

First to add a comment to this news. I just wanted to test to see how adding a new comment to a page would look. Hopefully this will motivate people to do something about global warming.

Read more at www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/s...

Simpy and GoogleAdSense

Simpy adds GoogleAdSense to users pages. This is simpy amazing! There are such incredible synergies happening here with all the Web2.0 stuff. You can now make money off the links that you create. You will not become a millionare from this but it does encourage people to make links and tags more relevant. Keep watching this space for more Web2.0 magic!

Read more at www.simpy.com/3p

Simpy - tagging, social bookmarking and personal search engine

I find this social bookmarking tool to really be a nice experience. It also can import my delicious bookmarks.

Read more at www.simpy.com/

Windows Re-imaged

So my Windows XP laptop provided by work was slow as a dog and I didn't care what was on the local hard drive so I had IT re-image the whole thing. It is almost like a new machine again. It is really funny how badly that the machine gets bogged down after time. No viruses, no trojens it just plain got slow. Anyway so after getting it back I had the fun task of deciding which tools where the most neccissary and installing them. Here is the list and the order in which I installed them:

1. Opera - Favorite Browser
2. Firefox - Second Favorite Browser
3. Google Desktop - Productivity Tool (I really like the side bar with auto-hide)
4. Cygwin - *nix tools for windows (makes windows barable)
5. gvim - The best text editor in the universe
6. gaim - Protocal agnostic istant measanger client, yahoo, gmail, aol,etc
7. nvu - WYSIWYG web page tool (simplistic and open source)
8. Real VNC - Desktop sharing system (I do everything through VNC)

And thats it! These I believe are the essential tools to get just about anything done that you need to. Most of these tools are open source. Now if I could just wrap all these up in some sort of windows packaging system like linux distrobutions already have than I could wipe my drive clean on a quarterly basis and always have a fast responsive machine. We can all dream can't we?