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Smoke Alarm

Paul Westbrook | 02 May, 2005 22:00

Sa302 Hires SmThe smoke alarm in our bedroom was pretty old, so I decided that I wanted to get a new one to replace it.  I went to Home Depot, and I saw the First Alert SA302.  This smoke alarm uses both photo and ion detectors to determine when there is smoke in the room.  Since this was going to go in our bedroom, I wanted a alarm that could detect smoke from any type of fires.

This alarm also has a "Remote Controlled silence/test" feature, where you can use your TV remote to silence false alarms and test the alarm.  I though that this would be a good feature, because then my wife wouldn't have to get on a stepping stool to silence the alarm.
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Proteus

Paul Westbrook | 02 May, 2005 21:48

A while ago, I had tried to use Proteus as my IM client, and I even registered it.  I eventually switched back to using Apple's iChat since Proteus did not easily integrate with Apple's Address Book.

This weekend, I downloaded the latest version of Proteus, and I really like it.  It now integrates well with Apple's Address book and displays the full name for a user, instead of the IM username.  It also displays the picture that is assigned to the card in Address Book.
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FlashGot

Paul Westbrook | 02 May, 2005 21:32

FlashGot is a pretty cool Firefox extension that allow you to have all of your download be managed by an external download manager.  It adds a new radio button to the download dialog, which allows you to specify if you want the browser to download the file or send it to the download manager.  Also, there is a preference that lets you specify that files with certain extension should always be sent to the download manager.

On Mac OS X, it allow downloads to be sent to Speed Download.

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Updated Post Trackback script

Paul Westbrook | 02 May, 2005 20:53

I have updated the Post Trackback script.  Now, if you have Growl installed, it will present notifications with Growl instead of a dialog in ecto.

You can download the script here.

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