King  Gary 

The past four months have gone by so quickly that they seem to be a blur. I’ve spent that time at university for the first time in my life, and I’ve met countless new people, some whom I’m certain will become life-long friends.

I have also learned a lot about myself while at university that I wouldn’t have otherwise figured out on my own. This list is in no way comprehensive, as I’ve definitely changed in many more ways than I can count (primarily in a good way), and I hope that spending more time at university will help me to better figure out who I am. Here are some things that I’ve learned about myself and about life in general:

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During these past few days while exams have been running on campus at UW, I’ve been going in and out of the campus so that I can go home to Toronto and have a change of scenery to see if I can focus more on my studying. Whenever I leave any location, the first thing that I always check for is if I have my laptop with me. Well, during one of my quick trips in and out of the campus, I did manage to bring my laptop, and yet, I somehow managed to forget my power adapter for it! This essentially meant that I was SOL and had no laptop to use until I returned to campus! That’s, let’s see… 4 days without a laptop. This marked the first time since I even GOT my laptop that I ran more than a day without using it.

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24 ways to play with some tasty Ajax and CSS is back for the year 2006! First introduced in 2005, it contained a new tutorial every day in December, up until Christmas, showing how to do something different with Ajax and CSS (primarily). And, of course, every single tutorial has a neat result that you can use to impress your friends!

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Snaps Preview is a new tool that allows webmasters to include a Javascript file to their websites to allow users to hover over links, and making a small window appear that gives a visual preview (a thumbnail) of the website, before visiting it. This reminds me of the Cooliris Previews extension for Firefox, which does the same thing except it works on the browser’s end; the problem with it, for me, is that it is way too big. I really like Snaps far more because of the small size, which allows it to load much faster. Also, the thumbnails are from Snaps’ server instead of the respective website, so they typically load more quickly, too.

I hope this gets adopted fairly quickly by websites, as it seems to me that it could definitely be a really useful tool for information-hungry-yet-busy web surfers, as all you’d have to do is hover over a link to find out what kind of website it is (does it have a lot of ads? Is it a forum? Does it have a blog format? You can find all of this out just by looking at the thumbnail preview), and then click on it if you so desire.

I can understand if this actually annoys some people, so in the future, it would be nice if they had another bit of code which allowed users to turn the feature on and off on the website that implemented it.

Something like this would typically be fairly difficult to monetize, as you wouldn’t want to, say, blast the user with AdSense in that tiny little preview box. So, it’s a good thing that Snaps already has their own search engine, because they added a tiny search box underneath each website preview, tempting you to use it. Once you use it, they’ve ensnared you into using their Snaps search engine, which is a win-win situation, as you aren’t bothered with much that you don’t want except for a small, barely noticeable text box in the link preview.

Also, I’ve installed this script onto my website, so you can check it out by hovering over links.

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