gmail undefined issue

 UPDATE: try disabling greasemonkey add-on before opening gmail. it worked for me. :)

if you’re using firefox 3 and you noticed your gmail is not working properly, you’re not alone. i’ve tried emptying the cache, restarting, uninstalling gmail-related apps– nothing happened. my friends from the chat list weren’t able to receive any of my test messages, and their names appeared as “undefined”.  i can’t even send an email!

gmail looks pretty normal with safari and ie, tho. so until team google fixes this, we might have to settle for older versions of firefox or any other browser except ff3.

postcrossing: the postcard exchange project

a postcard from germany arrived the other day, exactly two weeks after the sender got my random address from the website. it’s been years since i’ve last received good ‘ol snail mail, and even though we can easily exchange letters through email, nothing beats having handwritten letters in your mailbox. a friend of mine, who loves receiving snail mails (and even requests some from me hehe), introduced postcrossing to me and i instantly got hooked!

you simply sign up for an account, provide a mailing address and start retrieving five random addresses at a time. it won’t give you addresses from your home country, i think. excited, i went over to the bookstore to look for nice postcards so i could start bragging about our wonderful marine ecosystem and stuff like that. for some reason, i was not impressed with their postcard collection– they all sucked. how the hell am i supposed to feel proud about the picture i’m describing? the philippines might have the silliest government ever to exist, but there’s no denying that its beauty is frikkin awesome. and i can’t let some crappy postcard deny others that.

so anyway, i started asking my favorite local photographers permission to print their landscape photos and i’m glad they agreed. so, yay!! ^^ i hope the ones who’ll receive my letters would find the philippines fascinating.

a sorta eventful weekend

because i love indian and mediterranean cuisine, my friends and i decided to eat at a persian restaurant last sunday. we weren’t familiar with most of the things on the menu, so we got a bit adventurous and picked random dishes. one of us was on a diet, so she settled for the yummy green salad garnished with corn and grilled chicken. and an earthworm lol. she was through eating the whole salad when she saw an earthworm tap dancing on her empty plate. it’s a good thing that she’s not at all grossed out, so we were able to show the kitchen about it without causing scandal. a few minutes later, the restaurant owner himself came to our table and expressed his apologies. from the look on his face, it was clear that he was terribly embarrassed about the incident and even mentioned that even his apology could never fully express nor make up what has happened. he was lucky because we’re not the sort who make it a big public scandal; besides, it was sort of an assurance that their vegetables are organic hehehe.. anyway, the meal worth around 2 thousand pesos was on the house (yey!) and we even got complimentary dessert. we weren’t planning on pressing charges or anything, it was no biggie. in fact, we were even willing to pay for the “undamaged” food. what surprised me that night, aside from the free meal, was the owner’s guts to claim responsibility. we admired how he dealt with it and showed some class. you can’t find that in most restaurants in manila, you know. the best you can get, if you’re lucky, is a free replacement soup and a kthxbai.

we sorta felt bad for them because these things do happen, but on the other hand we can’t deny being happy for having a free delicious meal lol. and because they have good food and excellent service, we will still be going back for more. :)

i guess we had too much fun and blahaha that night that i got serious dyspepsia the following day. to top that, fever’s decided to boogie along as well. not even a bottle of 7-up did the trick, so i was stuck in bed the whole day feeling lousy and unusually full. sleeping only made it worse.

anyhoo, the free moo cards i got for renewing my flickr account arrived that day.

and eek were they small!

they make nice personalized call cards, tho.

this is the car audio cable extension we murdered. instead of buying a new one, we bought it to replace the missing parts of my brother’s hand-me-down belkin ipod player. so, yay! we got the thing working again lol.

yahoo messenger 9.1 beta

whenever yahoo releases a beta, i usually read the reviews first and wait until they release the final version. the last beta installation has wiped out my entire message archive, so yey me. but recently, out of curiosity, i’ve decided to install the damn thing anyway. after i backed up everything, of course.

i can’t say it looks better than the previous version, but it definitely has better options.

• you now have the option to view your contact list in compact or detailed mode. you will be able to see emoticons in your status messages and get a bigger preview of your friend’s avatar. now you don’t have to wonder what that :> in your friend’s status is hehe
• the address book below your contact list is very easy to access and edit, it’s pretty much like editing a contact detail in messenger.
• view video and photo links IN your chat window, there’s no need to click on the link. i don’t know if i should be happy about this feature. think about the annoying *Buzz!*, and this time it comes with video. now you watch it whether you like it or not, lol.
• new emoticons. nuff said.

it’ll take some time before i learn to like the new messenger’s look, but hey, the new options (and emoticons! ^^) are good enough for now. i’m still waiting for yahoo to improve their mac version, because all of them suck. (but then again, who’d want ym if you have adium? lol)

want to try the new yahoo messenger for pc? click here. still not convinced? view the video demo here.

why you should get applecare protection plan

yeah.. why should we get an applecare protection plan?

what could possibly go wrong with my sexy little—- WTF!!!

lol. if i paid for an extended warranty just for this one, i’d feel real stupid. i’m not saying i’d prefer an HD crash (lol and hopefully that won’t happen to me), but i want to be guaranteed that i’ve made a wise investment. unfortunately, i bought a warranty on impulse because i baby my mac a lot. so embarrassing, i’m starting to sound like an apple zealot.

hide the blogger navbar

i’ve moved to the new blogger beta and it has been a nice stay so far. well, except for the annoying blogger navbar that wasn’t there before i made the switch. so for those who wanted to get rid of it, here’s a simple code that you have to paste inside the <head> tag.

<style type=”text/css” media=”screen”>
#navbar-iframe {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
</style>

.. and voila, it’s gone! :)

share your cool playlist with audioscrobbling

sometimes people (and probably some online profiling stuff like friendster) would ask me what kind of music i listen to, then i’d find myself repeating what i’ve told the last person who asked me that question. replying with “hmm, quite a lot” or “i listen to brit rock” will probably limit a potentially nice conversation to a mere “i see”.

LAST.FM

this is not the most useful application on the internet, but it sure is a nice way to get a good idea what your buddies listen to. :)

i noticed they added a new feature that tells you how compatible you are with your buddy in terms of music taste.

AND you get to display your recent playlist on your blog, your frienster, flickr, or any service that supports feeds.

plugin works with itunes, winamp, windows media player and other popular music player. so in case you’re hooked as well, don’t forget to add me! :D

download & save youtube videos

that’s right kids, why save it as a favorite when you can DOWNLOAD the whole sweet thing? thanks to dredd for sharing this tip!

first, you got to have firefox. why? 1) because this tip only works with kickass firefox, 2) other browsers can just suck it. lol.

1. Install the Greasemonkey Extension for Firefox.

2. Right-click this .js file and select “Install User Script” (if you don’t see that option try step one again)

3. Now on every youtube video page there should be a red bar at the top, that says “Save As” to download Flash video.

4. Right click the text in the red bar, select “Save Link As,” and save the file as a .flv file. Firefox will rty to save it as “get_video.php,” you need to change the “.php” to “.flv,” and change the first part to whatever you prefer.

Now you need to either download a media player that runs .flv files, or download a program that converts them to other file types. Here are links to both:

FLV PLayers

FLV Player
VLC player - i recommend this!

FLV Converters

Riva FLV Encoder
Total Video Converter

that’s it! happy downloads galore! :D

flickr, the coolest photosharing network

ah yes, share the luurv. :D (more stuff here…)something tells me that i’d be getting a pro flickr account in the future, because flickr is simple, fun and organized. flickr uses the beauty of web2.0, which means more functionality minus the agony of waiting for an overweight interactive application to load. it automatically displays your photo’s EXIF detail, too, as long as you did not manipulate the file.

anyway, the reason why i’m thinking of getting a pro account is that i can’t bear to have only 200 photos displayed. the images would still be there, but people won’t be able to see them unless i provide them the link. ah, blah, vanity is going to cost me a lot.

dear santa

LaCie Brick Desktop Hard Drive

yup, looks like lego, they stack, but don’t exactly lock like lego. the red one comes in 500gig. i WANT!!! read specs here

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a PSP

need i say more? read specs here

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the gorgeous iMac G5 and its pet Tiger

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tama na nga!!