The Modern Hippy Male

How to: Make Firefox open new Tabs to the far right – Firefox Tips and Tricks

If you’re like me, you’re awesome. And, although being awesome is… awesome, it can come with some drawbacks. I’ll outline those now in the form of a pros vs. cons list. If you have reached this page accidentally, and, in fact, are not awesome, scroll to the bottom of this post and read the Short Version.

The Pros and Cons of being Awesome.

As you may have noticed, that last con I listed is pretty horrible. You may be thinking, “I know, now I have to find another Firefox add-on to fix the new tab creation location.” Well, my awesome friend, think again…

Changing the configuration of Firefox 3.6

So that new tabs open all the way at the end of open tabs instead of immediately to the right of the current tab.

In the release of Firefox 3.6 the default manner in which new tabs are opened in the browser has been changed. New tabs used to be created at the end of the list of other open tabs, on the far right. Now, with Firefox 3.6 default, tabs are created immediately to the right of the tab in which the link was clicked. To change the functionality Firefox 3.6 configuration so that new tabs will once again be opened to the far right, read along or skip to the bottom for the short version.

Listen closely, dear reader. On your computer there is a program (Firefox 3.6). Within this program there are configuration settings (about:config). Locate these configuration settings and you will find that of which you seek… a solution to your problem.

Step 1:

Firstly, we must calculate the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow. Fortunately there are many Monty Python fans who have performed this step admirably. (http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/)

24 miles an hour = Average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow

Step 2:

Now that we know the average cruising airspeed velocity of an unladen European Swallow, we have one more thing to add to the Pros side of our list. This makes us all just that much more awesome. Move on to step 3.

Step 3:

In your address bar, type about:config.

Type into your Firefox address bar.

Step 4:

Read the humorous, yet serious, yet strangely laughable warning provided by the good people at Mozilla, and click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.

Step 5:

Type browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent into the filter box.

Type browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent into the filter box.

Step 6:

Double Click the listing so that the Value field changes to false.

Double click the listing so that the value is changed to false.

All done – we just fixed your Firefox

Now you can see that new tabs open all the way at the end of open tabs instead of immediately to the right of the current tab. To change Firefox 3.6 so that new tabs open immediately to the right of the current tab, set the value for browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent to true.

Short Version:

In your address bar, type about:config.

Read the warning provided by the good people at Mozilla, and click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button.

Type browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent into the filter box.

Double Click the listing so that the Value field changes to false.

Spread the word

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Defriended on Facebook

Have you looked through your friends list recently? I have. A buddy of mine from high school posted a picture to his facebook profile, I looked at it and read a few of the comments. One of the comments was from another friend from my high school days whom I had already befriended on facebook. Wanting to catch up with this friend once more, I clicked their name in the comment to go to their profile. Low and behold, I was no longer their friend. I figured it might have been a facebook glitch, so I logged out of my facebook account, and logged back in, checked my friends list and the person was still not there. I HAD BEEN DEFRIENDED!

I was crushed. Why would someone who was obviously my friend from the past, defriend me on facebook. There were a few possibilities I could surmise:

1. I had offended this facebook friend in some way, with something I had said.
2. I had not spoken with this facebook friend in awhile, so they didn’t see a point in keeping me on their facebook friends list.
3. They decided to have a mass-purging of their facebook friends and I just didn’t make the cut.
4. This facebook friend was never really my friend and only accepted my friend request to not look like a jerk.
5. This facebook friend remembered a time in the past when I had wronged him or her and had decided they didn’t want me as a friend any longer.

The majority of these possibilities are a little far fetched, but possible. Instead of agonizing over the situation I decided to find out why. I sent my facebook friend an email, away from facebook. In the email I told him I was curious why we were no longer friends on facebook. He mentioned that we hadn’t really talked in awhile and he knew that I had his email address and that he had mine. So that if either of us ever wanted to talk again, we could.. we just didn’t have to do it through facebook. I then sent back another email telling him that this sounded odd to me. Although it makes sense, it does no harm to have more friends on facebook. He replied back a day later explaining that he decided to defriend a lot of people on facebook because they were making a lot of facebook game posts and not doing much talking, which is why he was using facebook.

This was surprising to me. I knew it would have been a possibility, but I never thought people would actually defriend me on facebook because I played games. It is easy to block the game posts from displaying if you don’t want to see them, or hide a friend completely if you don’t want to see what they have to say.

I replied to my friend with this information and he replied back asking me how to hide friends on facebook, and how to hide games on facebook.

Hide Facebook Game Posts

If you don’t know how to hide facebook game posts, it’s really quite simple. Just a few clicks and you can hide those pesky posts for good. In fact, the same process can be used for hiding pesky friends. Just follow along.

Firstly, I would like to explain the differences between the facebook feed types. As you may have noticed, you have the option of viewing two different feed types. The Live Feed and the News Feed. The differences between these two are simple, and easy to explain. Facebook’s Live Feed shows you everything posted by any of your friends as soon as it is posted. Facebook’s News Feed requires a post to achieve some measure of popularity (either by being liked a lot, or by being commented on a couple times). This will help with the next step.

To hide facebook game posts you will first need to find one of the offending posts. Here’s an example:

How to Hide Facebook Game Posts - Ex 1

This is a post for the Facebook Game FarmVille. If you want to hide all posts from the FarmVille game from showing up in the future, hover your mouse over any portion of the post to display the hide button in the upper right corner.

How to Hide Facebook Game Posts - Ex 2

Click the Hide button in the upper right hand corner and you will then see two hide buttons and a cancel button.

How to Hide Facebook Game Posts - Ex 3

The first button will say Hide and then the persons name that made the post. Clicking this button will hide all posts made by that person. Clicking the Hide FarmVille button will hide all posts made by the FarmVille game. Clicking Cancel will not apply any action and return to post to its previous state.

To Hide Facebook Game Posts – Summary

Hover your mouse cursor over the offending post and you will see a Hide button appear in the upper right-hand corner of the post. Click that button and you will be presented with three more buttons. Press the center button, it should say Hide and then the name of the game.

To Hide Facebook Friend Posts – Summary

Find a post that was made by the person you would like to hide. Hover your mouse cursor over the post and you will see a Hide button appear in the upper right-hand corner of the post. Click that button and you will be presented with three more buttons. Press the leftmost button, it should say Hide and then the facebook friend’s name.

I hope this will help show everyone how to hide facebook game posts and how to hide facebook friend’s posts.

Facebook Dream World Tips and Tricks – First Impressions

I just started playing Dream World and I’m quite impressed. The game truly is an RPG (Role Playing Game). With so many other games on facebook that make the claim of being an RPG, it is refreshing to see one that actually fits the bill. Leveling up, weapons, items, armor, attack ratings, defense ratings, skill points, money, XP, training, pets / familiars… this game is good stuff.

Dream World - World Map

Dream World Tips and Tricks – Get More Skill Points

As you level up in Dream World you may want to invest a few Learning Points into the other class skills. For example, if you are a Ranger, your class skill with be Gun, but you can still purchase skill levels in Sword and Magic. Doing this will give you a lot more skill points. At level 21, I invested 3 points into each (6 total). I got the first upgrades for 1 point each, and the second upgrades for 2 points each. My Dream World skill points were at 26, now they are at 44. After that, I went back and purchased the next level of upgrades for each at 3 skill points a piece and now I have 52 total skill points. For a small investment of 12 learning points I have more than doubled my total skill points.

Dream World Tips and Tricks – Leveling Up

As with other games, you level up by increasing your XP (Experience Points, referred to in game as EXP). Although there are likely a few other ways to increase your XP, fighting monsters is likely the quickest way. When you gain a level, your max hitpoints are increased, your energy and skill points are refilled and you earn some “learning points.” After leveling up, visit the Training Center in town to spend your learning points to purchase new skills, to improve already obtained skills, or to increase your attributes.

Dream World Tips and Tricks – Attributes

Attributes can be thought of as rankings of specific aspects of your character. In the Facebook Game Dream World, there are 5 different attributes: Strength, Constitution, Intelligence, Dexterity, and Quickness. Each attribute is accompanied by a value. The value denotes how proficient your character is in each particular area. Strength increases your melee attack effectiveness and allows you to equip more items. Constitution increases your maximum health. Intelligence increases your magic attack, skill points and allows you to learn more skills. Dexterity increases your magic and gun attack and critical strike rate. Quickness increases your melee and gun attack as well as your defense.

Dream World Attributes

Dream World Tips and Tricks – Elite, Boss and Special Enemies

Elite enemies are random encounters that you will come upon during your journeys. They do more damage and have more health than normal, non-elite enemies, but they yield more experience when defeated. Along with elite enemies, there are also bosses and special enemies that you will come across. To confirm that you are in fact fighting an Elite, Boss, or Special enemy, the name of the enemy will be displayed in red or purple.

Dream World Boss

Dream World Tips and Tricks – Skills

When fighting an Elite, Boss, or Special enemy in Dream World, it may become necessary for you to use a skill to defeat said enemy. To do so, select the skill from your skills list and then click the Use Skill button. The Use Skill button will then be replaced with a meter that fluctuates between being full and empty. Clicking on the meter when it is closer to full will use the skill to a greater effectiveness (more damage). Keep an eye on your skill points though, they only refill once a day, or when you level up.

Dream World Skills

Dream World Tips and Tricks – Puzzle Box

There are two different types of puzzle boxes that I have seen thus far. One is sort of a Minesweeper style puzzle that must be unlocked, and the other is a color / combination based game.

Firstly, I will be discussing my strategy for solving the Minesweeper style puzzle box.

Dream World Puzzle Box

As you can see from the description, “The metallic Puzzle Box is locked electronically, and can be opened when all 4 correct buttons are pressed.” Click on the Open button to begin.

Dream World Puzzle Box Example

Again, reading the description we see that the “Number Indicators for each button indicate how many of [the] button’s adjacent buttons (excluding diagonals and itself) are correct buttons. (0 means all buttons adjacent to that button are incorrect).”

In order to help myself solve these puzzle boxes, I created a simple Excel Spreadsheet. The spreadsheet doesn’t do anything fancy, it just helps me keep track of everything.

Download the spreadsheet: Puzzle_Box

Dream World Puzzle Box Helper

I start by setting the spreadsheets puzzle board to match that of the one I’m currently trying to solve. You can do this easily by finding which sections of your current puzzle board are marked with a number 0, and copying and pasting that square from the section below the puzzle board in the spreadsheet, into the appropriate place on the puzzle board. Once that is done, I start by placing a bold X in the center of all of the sections that I know cannot have a button pushed. This means to place a bold X in the center of each section adjacent to a 0, as shown below.

Dream World Puzzle Box Helper - Step 1

Now we have an easy to read, visual reference of what buttons cannot be pushed, and what buttons are still possibilities. For some Dream World Puzzle Boxes, this is the only step that needs to be done. As There are only 4 buttons that need to be pressed, sometimes the 0 are placed such that there are only 4 possible buttons to press.

The next step is to start to solve the Puzzle Box. Firstly, we can see that the top row requires one button in the middle, otherwise, there would be no way to satisfy the requirements of the upper left, and upper right buttons having at least 1 button pressed adjacent to them as we are not able to press either of the buttons below either of those squares. Place a mark in the center of the upper middle square (I use a bold, upper-case C to denote buttons that will be pressed). Moving on we see that the middle row requires one button to be adjacent to the center (we already have this in the upper middle), two buttons required for the middle left, and one for the middle right. Placing a mark in the middle center seems like the right choice at the moment, so lets do that. This satisfies the middle right, and half of the middle left’s requirement. Now, moving down to the bottom row we know that we have to put a mark in the lower left to satisfy the middle left’s requirement… however, in doing so we violate the rule of the lower middle square of having only one adjacent button pressed (we would have two buttons pressed, the middle center, and the lower left). To satisfy the middle left squares requirement, we would then need to place a mark in the upper left square. Doing this would require three buttons to be pressed and would solve the Puzzle Box. But, there is a problem. We have to press 4 buttons on the box, not 3. Although we satisfied the Puzzle Boxes requirements, we have done so in one too few button presses. Now, remove all of the marks except for the upper middle square, we know that one is necessary. Next, try placing a mark in both the upper left and the upper right squares. Doing this satisfies the requirements of the upper middle square, and the middle right square. In addition, the mark in the upper middle square satisfies the requirements of the upper left, upper right, and middle center. Now, we only have 2 more requirements to satisfy, that of the lower middle, and middle left. Both of these squares require one more button to be pressed adjacent to them. Placing a mark in the center middle square would not work as it would make three marks adjacent to the upper middle square, and two marks adjacent to the middle right square. The only option left is the lower left. Place a mark in the lower left and then check each square to make sure its requirements are satisfied. You should end up with what looks like this.

Dream World Puzzle Box Helper - Step 2

They are all satisfied, now lets give it a shot and see if we made a mistake!

Dream World Puzzle Box Example - Completed

Download the spreadsheet: Puzzle_Box

Dream World – Color-based Puzzle Box

The color-based Puzzle Box requires a much different strategy.

Dream World Color Puzzle Box

The description states “The metallic Puzzle Box is locked electronically, and opens when the correct sequence of colors is submitted by selecting a color for each column. Sequences may contain the same color more than once. Press ‘Open’ to test a combination and get updates.”

Pressing the Open button the first time reveals the puzzle board and allows us to begin.

Dream World Color Puzzle Box Example

The puzzle board states that C denotes the number of columns with the correct color, P denotes the number of color choices in the wrong column, and A denotes the attempts left before the box self-destructs. To reiterate, the goal is to find the proper sequence of colors for each column to unlock the Puzzle Box. You have 6 attempts to deduce the correct combination and get the sequence correct, and the sequence may contain the same color more than once.

I will show you this puzzle solved and explain my strategy.

Dream World Color Puzzle Box Example - Solved

Please note that your previous attempts are displayed below the Puzzle Box after they have been made, for easy reference. As you can see from the picture above, I start each Dream World Color Puzzle Box with all 4 red buttons pressed. Because there are no values for either C or P, I know that there are no Red buttons in this sequence and I’m able to move on to Green. I select all Green buttons for the next sequence and I can see that there is one Green Button, and it is in the correct location. This doesn’t help me determine where exactly it is, but it is essential for the deduction process. Next, I move the first green button to Blue, and submit again. Now, we have no colors in the correct columns (as denoted by the 0 value for C), and 2 colors that are correct, but in the wrong columns. This tells me several things. First, I know there is one Blue button, one Green button, and two Yellow buttons in the sequence (because there are no Red, and only one each of Blue and Green, the two remaining buttons must be Yellow). Second, I know that the Green button is in the first column, I can determine this because in Attempt #2, I had a value of 1 for C, and that is the only color that changed in Attempt #3. Third, I know that the second column is not a Green, because the first column holds the only Green button. I now know the exact number of each color that is in the sequence, and the location of one of the Colors, so I have to determine the location of the other 3 colors. In Attempt #4, I swap the buttons in the first to columns, and set the third and fourth columns both to Yellow. This gives C a value of 2, and P a value of 2. This confirms that I have the 4 colors used in the combination correct (one Green, one Blue, and two Yellow), and that two of the color’s locations are correct. Because I know that the Green in the first column is correct, my next attempt is to swap the second and third columns with each other. This preserves the Green in its location, and the the Yellow in the fourth column. This turned out to be the correct sequence and unlocked the Puzzle Box.

If my last guess above had turned out to be incorrect, the only other possible sequence would have been Green, Yellow, Yellow, Blue. This means that using this technique, this Puzzle Box sequence can be solved correctly each and every time.

Dream World Tips and Tricks – Wiseman Trivia Questions and Answers

As you progress through the game, you will, from time to time, come across The Wiseman.

Dream World Wiseman Trivia

The Wiseman has 3 options, Accept (to have a chat with him), Trivia, and Fight. Pressing the Trivia button presents you with any one of a wide range of trivia questions.

Dream World Wiseman Trivia - Answer

If you answer the question correctly, you will be rewarded with Coins and Experience.

Dream World Wiseman Trivia - Correct

I have gathered several of the Dream World Wiseman Trivia Questions below and provided the answers. If you would like to contribute, please submit the questions and their answers as a comment to this post as you come across them.

Question: What state is the Wolverine state?
Answer: Michigan

Question: Chaplin attacks the machine age in inimitable fashion, with sharp pokes at other social ills and the struggle of modern-day survival.
Answer: Modern Times

Question: What sister island of Trinidad is just a short air hop away?
Answer: Tobago

Question: Who invented the aerosol?
Answer: Erik Rotheim

Question: music : 70’s chart toppers: name the artist: you and i?
Answer: Rick James

Question: Name the heaviest flying bird of prey.
Answer: Andean condor

Question: Who invented James Bond?
Answer: Ian Fleming

Question: Popular social dance during the eighteenth century; done in rows or circles, it may have derived from English country dancing.
Answer: Contredanses

Question: mckinley what u.s secretary of state bought alaska from russia for 7.2 million dollars?
Answer: Seward

Question: Who died three days after Elvis Presley?
Answer: Groucho Marx

Question: Name the first full length color cartoon talking picture.
Answer: Snow White

Question: U.S. President, John Quincy ______.
Answer: Adams

Question: what word may be used to refer to a group of peacocks?
Answer: Muster

Question: what soap revolves around the corys & the matthews?
Answer: Another World

Question: gene hackman stars in a mystery drama about surveillance and wiretapping called?
Answer: The Conversation

Question: As sly as a ______?
Answer: Fox

Question: What is Blondie’s maiden name?
Answer: Oop

Question: what european country uses ch on its automobile licence plates?
Answer: Switzerland

If you would like to contribute, please submit the trivia questions and their answers that you come across as a comment to this post.