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Armistead?s Ague Tonic Mouse Trap Tilt Toy
Found among other junk is a promotional advertising toy. It is a mouse in a meat storage room that you have to get into the mousetrap. The mouse has a little ball under it that it rolls on. The clear cover is close enough to keep it from flipping over, yet still slide around. There [read more]

Firefox Ctrl+B toggle Bookmarks Toolbar like Chrome
Pressing Ctrl+B in Chrome opens and closes the Bookmarks Toolbar. By default, Firefox Ctrl+B toggles the Bookmarks Sidebar. Here is how to apply the same shortcut key to Firefox as in Chrome. The Bookmarks Sidebar will still be accessible with Ctrl+I. Install keyconfig.xpi posted in the mozillaZine forums. It is not an official hosted plugin. [read more]

Yahoo! Answers WordPress Widgets Plugin
A plugin for WordPress that gives you two widgets to show your Yahoo! Answers Questions and Starred / Favorites. These widgets have a few more options than a typical RSS feed simply loaded by an RSS widget. The statuses are reduced so they aren’t redundant (e.g. “Resolved Question:” is rewritten “Resolved:”) amung other options to [read more]

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Share list of files in DropBox Public folder
For Windows DropBox users. Here is a simple way to share list of links for your Public folder. This script doesn’t show files in sub-directories. 1. Create a makefilelist.bat file with script to list all files in directory. 2. Use Scheduled Tasks to run the .bat file Daily or Weekly, etc as needed; depending on

Launch Google Chrome and external links with incognito mode.
The instructions floating around are to place the --incognito switch (single – works fine for me) in your desktop shortcut. But sometimes you may be in an application like Tweek Deck, etc that links to webpages. These pages don’t launch in incognito if you only fix your desktop shortcut. Here is how to do both.