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The Setup So Far

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Josh Kim
on August 24, 2008
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I’ve been getting some requests for pictures of the new apartment.

I don’t know what version to call this “Lair”, but this is how it looks for now.

The Setup So Far

I guess I should post a full tour of the place, but really, it’s just a regular apartment. I don’t know what some people are wanting… maybe after a couple weeks of decorating I’ll be able to show some coolness.

The move wasn’t too crazy. I’m happy that I have so little stuff. Pretty much all my stuff falls into four categories: kitchen accessories (with a small box of toiletries), clothing, books (and all the paper documents), and electronics (oh the cables… so many freaking cables…). Over the year, I intend to start a scanning project of all my old documents, as well as start selling even more crap I don’t need.

All the while I’m realizing how little stuff I truly have, I’m realizing how much bigger this apartment is compared to the last one. There are too many cabinets and closets going unfilled. I liked the limits that were placed at my last place.

However, I am enjoying the much larger and more traditionally shaped living room. My last one was much longer than it was wide, and so it created an interesting situation with my work desk/bench. Now, I have plenty of room to mess around with.

Time to go look at some posters and dry-erase boards. A printer/scanner is also being researched.

Couple More Things About Google Reader

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Josh Kim
on March 22, 2007
in User Interface & Design and Web Applications
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A few more things about Google Reader.

Shortcut Keys: Space and Shift+Space

I think the best way to use Google reader is to use space and shift+space to go through stories.

I thought that the space button went through one post each at the time, but I found out that it either does one post at a time OR if the post is longer than a screen’s height, then the behavior of the space key changes to a “page down”. It’s ingenious. I can go through all my feeds with one hand… kinda… which leads me to my next point.

Need a Shortcut Key for: Opening up Links

Currently, I’m having to command+click a title of a story to open up in a tab. There needs to be another key that opens up the story I’ve selected in a target=”_new” window.

I tried the enter key but all that the enter key does is open up the story in “list view”, and it does nothing in “expanded view”. Blah.

Another Feature Request: Sort Options

I like to read my posts backwards than how Google has set it up. I like to read the posts that were posted earlier than those posted later. I’d much rather go directly to the post: I don’t want to hear some garbage summary on the original post. (I love posts that add thoughtful and meaningful content to the original post… but that rarely happens in this digg world.)

So going back to the first point: I have to use shift+space rather than space to scroll through my stories… Kinda clunky, but it works.

Overall: Satisfied

It’s quick. It’s painless, to a certain extent. It’s not as clunky as Vienna…

Plus, it’s a web application. Half-minus, it’s Google. (Google is neither on my list of companies I love nor on my list of companies I hate…)

Wow… WoW?

I swear. Sometimes, writing on this blog turns out to be something like leveling in World of Warcraft: I can’t stop it. I gotta level up just once more or turn in one more quest.