Jay Allen

Member since: Sep 18th, 2005

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TUAW.com	8 Comments
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Download Squad	4 Comments
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Portable Google Chrome now available on OS X (Download Squad)

Jul 17th 2009 3:53PM Feel like I'm missing something, and the googlez are failing me trying to find it. How does one enable flash in the mac build of chrome?

Virtually Free: Superstarzzzzz (Joystiq Nintendo)

Apr 3rd 2008 11:27AM schmup pack!!!

NewsFire RSS reader goes free (Download Squad)

Mar 10th 2008 9:24AM After the last communication I had with the author of Newsfire I can safely say that free isn't even a price that would make me want to use Newsfire again.

And what a cruel joke for the poor saps out there who purchased his "lifetime upgrades" license, when a newer version was never made available between the time when he made that upgrade purchasable and when the software became free.

Fish follow through (ParentDish)

Oct 5th 2007 9:24AM When we setup our 20 gallon tank and had the water tested weekly we had to run it for almost a full month before our local (privately owned) pet store said that the water was ready for fish. Yes, this includes danios or any type of cheaper fish.

My own concern with our baby is that when he gets older I need to make sure he knows that fish can die easily even when you did everything perfectly. My wife, who had never setup a fish tank in her life, cried profusely when our very first beta died, and I felt terrible because I hadn't told her how easily it can happen (I was the only one with previous fish experience).

Get a water testing kit. Get a notebook and create a logbook/journal of your tanks test results so you can track it over time. Most of the chemical buffers are pretty cheap, and if you need adjust the chemical levels in the water it becomes a mini-chemistry set. Gravel vacuums are cheap and are fun to operate with kids, and they also do a great job of cleaning the tank.

I guess my big point here is, when our son is old enough to have a small tank in his room or even to help me with the bigger tanks we have in the house, I plan on turning a fish's death into a lesson about overcoming adversity. Yes, the fish died, but you can do a lot to help prevent it in the future.

Secure Your Mac: Untrusted networks and how to deal with them (TUAW.com)

Sep 28th 2007 10:55AM I've been using lifehacker's proxy tip for some time now and it absolutely awesome. Combine it with the QuickProxy Firefox extension and you have an easy on-and-off solution.

Hulk Hogan defends his son (ParentDish)

Sep 6th 2007 10:47AM The pic you have here is from a previous incident (not an accident) where this car caught fire while being driven by Nick. It's pretty well documented that the fire was not his fault.

For pics of the Supra accident see http://www.autoblog.com/2007/08/27/nick-hogans-totaled-toyota-supra-and-new-details/