It may be too late to win Dropquest but it is not too late to use it to get an extra 1GB of space on Dropbox. If you finish the 2012 Dropquest you will get a total of 1GB of extra space. The best part about it is I have found the complete guide full of the answers, so that means you don’t even have to try. It should take you around ~10 min to complete the quest with this cheat sheet.

I have found out that Dropbox has put together a new way to share folders and files to people. Before this there were two alternatives. The first one was to drop the file you wanted to share into the “Public” folder and get the “Public Link” to the file. The second way was to actually share a folder to another Dropbox user, the folder would show up on both user’s accounts, and they would both be able to make changes to the contents of the folder. The problem is that you could not share properly share a folder to anyone else with just “view”, you could only share a specific file or share a whole folder with full permissions. 

With this new “Get Link” option you can share a whole folder with only “View” permissions. The user can view the content on the web, download the content as a zip file, and or add the content directly to their Dropbox folder, so cool! To enable this new feature just simply go to this URL and then restart your Dropbox client. Once it is restarted you will see a “Get Link” option for Dropbox on both the client and in the browser. 

Source / Read More : https://www.dropbox.com/help/167

So I recently got an iPad 3rd generation and noticed that I had no way to open links that I’m currently looking at on the computer on the iPad. After some searching for a resolution to my problem, I came across AirLink from http://thethingsido.net. Installing AirLink is real easy, you actually do not install anything, you just save a bookmark on your computer and on your iOS device. When visiting a page you want to view on your iOS device, you simply click the AirLink bookmark on the iOS device and then the AirLink bookmark on your computer.

It does not matter if you are a developer checking out your code, a tester testing someones code, or a hacker trying to find exploits in someones code, it is important to have a quick and easy way to look at JavaScript events. With Visual Event by Allen Jardine you can quickly and visually see JavaScript events, as well as hover over the events to get more details. The best part about this tool is that it is cross-browser supported and does not require you to install any extra software on your computer.  To get started using it just simply save THIS LINK to your bookmarks and go to the link on the site you want to use it on.  To find out more details just go to Allen’s website.

Just a note on how to exit Visual Event, once you have it running, to exit just simply press the Esc key.

Sometimes it can be hard to find the absolute path to a file or folder you currently working in. With this quick and easy trick you can have Finder display the path to the current directory instead of just the folders name. This works for 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7.

To start just simply copy and past the following two commands into the Terminal.

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES 

killall Finder 

Now when you look at Finder’s Title you will see the full path to the current directory! To turn it off simply copy and past the following code into the Terminal.

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool NO

killall Finder 

I hate having to watch advertisements in YouTube videos before I can watch the actual clip. I hate it even more when the advertisements can be longer than the actual movie or you see the same advertisement 10 times in a row. With this cool Google Chrome extension you can skip the ads with just a click of a button. The creator also claims that it will always work, and legal. Once you have installed the extension just go to a YouTube video with advertisements and hit the “Blue Play” button at the top of the video next to the title (See Image).

Link | Google Chrome Extension Link

As of NOW I’m going to try to do a new segment called “Coding Trick Of The Week”. I’ll show you how to do some cool tricks with coding, and it can be in any coding language. This weeks is going to be how to set a background color when you a user selects or highlights text on your site. This will be accomplished using CSS3.

Put the code below in a CSS file or inline CSS and then you will now have your text with a redish background when highlighting or selecting it. For an example just select any text from this site. It currently only works with FireFox, Chrome, and Safari. To change the background or highlight color just change the hex color code #ffb7b7 to whatever you want. You can even use common color wording such as RED.

The Code

::selection { background: #ffb7b7; /* Safari */ } 
::-moz-selection { background: #ffb7b7; /* Firefox */ }

Image showing part of this article highlighted with CSS code above being used.

If you have never tried to code because you are unsure where to start or just afraid of what it would be like or any other reason like that then you should take the time to check out this really cool website called Codecademy.com where you learn to do basic coding such as; variables, strings, arrays, while loops, and if statements.  With this simple to use and understand but still very educational interface you will soon be on your way to becoming a well tuned coder.

I think one of the coolest things about the site is the fact that it is social. What this means is you can easily keep track and share your progress with anyone. I even think with this feature we might see beginner programing classes using this as a entry level tool to begin and learn how to code.

If you are having any trouble getting your Google Calendar Delegation Calendars to automaticaly sync with your Mac’s iCal then this step will help you solve this problem. Although it is a long procedure it works with no additional software.

Step 1

Open iCal, go to Preference, then to Account, finally to Delegation. Unmark all of your delegates.

Step 2

Open the app TexEdit and copy and paste this account url on your TextEdit worksheet: https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/USERNAME@gmail.com/user

Step 3

Now log into your google calendar. Once you are logged in, go to “My Calendar” on the left hand side and click on “settings”

Step 4

You then will see all the calendars on displayed. Choose one of the delegates which will take you to Calendar Details tab.

Step 5

Scroll down to Calendar Address and fine the “Calendar ID” on the right hand side. Copy the Calendar ID.

Step 6

Go back to TextEdit and replace part of the account URL, so it goes from https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/USERNAME@gmail.com/user  to
https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/Calendar ID/user (mind you that Calendar ID has a “group.calendar.google.com” suffix, so an example of the final account url may look like  https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/lbuhjrlgkfoi1oqs56710vkn8zh@group.calendar.google.com/user

Step 7

Copy the altered account URL

Step 8

Go back to iCal, Preference, then Account.

Step 9

Add a new account, if you are using 10.6, under Account Type, select Caldav, and Paste the altered account URL in the Server Address box. If you are using 10.5, once you click Add an account, expand theServer Options, and Paste in the altered account URL in the Account URL box.

Step 10

Finally enter your google username and password. Click Add.

Step 11

You’re done for one of your delegate accounts. Repeat the process till all of your accounts are added in this way. You will see all your calendars showing up under the Account panel in your iCal preference. Then you’re done.

Source | http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Calendar/thread?tid=4e5c309678c75983&hl=en

A year ago I told everyone to use Proxy servers to avoid harassment from your ISP when downloading torrents, but now there are better alternatives. One alternative is to use a VPS host, known as a SeedBox, where you can download your torrents to at fast speeds. The key is they put the VPS servers in a country with no copyright laws making it NEARLY impossible for anyone to legally track the downloading to you. There are many benefits to make the switch to include;

1. Harder to track you because you don’t download any torrent traffic to your computer through the torrent network. Instead you download it through HTTPS or FTPS.
2. Faster speeds, most SeedBoxes limit around 10 or less users per server and each server has around a 100MB connection both up and down.
3. You are now able to share correctly. With this you can leave your uploading going and not fear a slow connection, eating up your bandwidth cap, or even getting caught redistributing the content.
4. Some Seedboxes offer additional services, like mine offers an HTTP proxy and was very friendly in getting me setup with some good private communities.

Seeboxes are not a alternative to proxies they are a better solution to avoiding the harassment, and doing anonymous torrenting. If you are interested go ahead and check out the provider I am using now (SavvySeedBox) they are wonderful. If you know of some other good providers please leave a comment.