Monthly Archives: January 2008

IKEA gets into pre-fab houses

Posted on January 30, 2008 by Angela Allen

After Lowes’ Katrina houses, we now have IKEA’s flat-box shipped house options. But, they aren’t available in the US — at least not yet. These little gems aren’t inexpensive, however. And one development in northern Europe is using the BoKlok  … Continue reading →

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Napkin PC – now THERE’s a concept!

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Angela Allen

I love the concept of a roll-up computer the size of a largish dinner napkin. Don’t you? The design (and it is a design concept only, btw) is like a latex tablet pc that’s uber-thin. Kinda cool.

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My Current Favorite Mozilla FireFox Addons

Posted on January 27, 2008 by Angela Allen

I’ve been tweaking all my systems lately and I wanted to share the list of firefox addons I’ve settled in to use. These are all tried and true — no browser-breakers here.

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Post-it Note Car

Posted on January 26, 2008 by Angela Allen

I saw this little work of art while driving around Danville, Kentucky the other day, and I just had to grab a shot of it. (It looked particularly interesting cruising the parking lot — with the post-its on the wheels … Continue reading →

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Linux Fix: FireFox Default Browser in Thunderbird

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Angela Allen

I’ve been battling with the frustration of having a Thunderbird application that shuns it’s brother, Firefox, in my Kubuntu install. Whenever I click on a link in an email, Konquer launches. I don’t like Konquer. I like Firefox. Firefox has … Continue reading →

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