This video has been floating around the web for a while. I realized that some peeps were looking for a subtitled version. Well, here you go..

Info: After much taping, editing, deleting, drinking and swearing we are proud to present… Sales Guy vs. Web Dude! A mashup of true and mostly-true stories from IT hell. If you’ve ever called tech support and wondered what the hell they are doing down there… well, this should answer some questions for you.

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The default Firefox 3 Mac theme does not show favicons for bookmarks you’ve added to your Bookmarks Toolbar. This is probably a decision that comes with mimicking the Safari theme which doesn’t display favicons either. Put simply, it sucks!

Thanks to Daniel Einspanjer, who wrote a Stylish style called Mac bookmark toolbar favicon, you can have all your favicons back in Firefox 3 with all their glory.

The Smart Bookmarks Bar extension which hides the names of bookmarks showing only the icon is currently not compatible with Firefox 3 Beta 5. It runs with the help of Nightly Tester Tools extension, but it is not very good at hiding the names of bookmarks. Even though it restores favicons on the Bookmark Toolbar without the use of the Stylish style mentioned above, it doesn’t work when it comes to hiding the names of bookmarks. You would have to go in to Organize Bookmarks and delete the names of bookmarks manually. You could just install the Stylish extension and delete the names manually, but you have control over the spacing between the icons with Smart Bookmarks bar.

It’s called GoogleLookup.

How does it work? Try this:

• Open a Google Spreadsheet
• Type Denmark in A2, France in A3 and Turkey in A4
• Select A2:A4.
• Holding the Ctrl (Win, Linux) or Ctrl+Option (Mac) button expand that selection by dragging the small blue square in the lower-right of the selection to, say, A20. Check this if you need more help.
• Surprised? You’ve seen nothing yet.
• Type capital in B2
• Again, expand that to B20.
• Then go to C2 and type =GoogleLookup(A2;B2)
• Then again, expand that to C20.
• :)))

You could also try doing different things, like typing Apple, Microsoft, Dell… in A2 and CEO in B2. Or even more!

I think this is very exciting! Microsoft should really start worrying for Office.

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I previously wrote about Fluid which is an app that lets you create site specific browsers on a Mac. Turns out you can do the same thing in Windows as well with Bubbles. If you are tired of your browser that has 18 tabs open crashing while you are writing an email in Gmail, or watching the latest thing on YouTube, then Bubbles is for you.

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But here’s the really dark part of all this. He knows it won’t work. He has to know this. He’s not stupid. The cultures will never fit together. And the deal is too big. It’s not manageable. And it’s completely anathema to Microsoft. It’s totally out of character for them. It goes against everything the company has ever stood for. Ballmer knows this, and he’s doing it anyway. Because this is exactly what every old-guard CEO does when all else fails. I mean it’s right there in the official playbook that you get in business school. And ultimately, smart as he is, Ballmer is an old-school kind of guy. He’s not really a tech guy. He has a mindset that was formed in Detroit, where he grew up. He’s a Big Three automaker kind of guy. And this is a Big Three move. It’s Ford buying Jaguar and Land Rover and Volvo because they can’t think of anything else to do.

BTW, Ford is currently looking to sell Jaguar and Land Rover which currently are the only two crown jewels in the group that are–though barely–making money.

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The wonderful music blog mecca The Hype Machine has released their 2007 Zeitgeist. The Zeitgeist comes in three sections: The Best 50 Songs, The Best 50 Albums and The Best 50 Bands. It was compiled by extensive analysis of the data they collected from music blogs around the internet throughout 2007.

If you are into Indie, you owe it to yourself to check this out.

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Awdio brings the music playing in many of the respected clubs, venues, festivals, etc. from around the world to your browser. Since there is always some kind of clubbing going on around the world at any given point in time, there is always something cool to listen to on Awdio. Montreal’s Stereo is rocking as I write this.

This is a very cool idea. I hope they stick around..

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Check this out:

sleeveface: one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of their body or bodies with record sleeve(s) causing an illusion.

www.sleeveface.com

There is also a fantastic Flickr pool that has over 750 awesome photos.

Are you tired of all those application requests that you have been ignoring for ages? I know I was..

Here’s a fantastic solution: the Ignore all! bookmarklet.

Just add this bookmarklet to your favorites and click it when you’re looking at your application requests on Facebook. And watch some ignortastic action. :)

Get it here.