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BigDog and his “friends”, all robots.

Posted on August 20th, 2008 in Browser, Mac, Robotics, Science | 2 Comments »

When I saw the robot called BigDog in the next link, I almost felt pain for the effort it was doing to climb  or going through the icy patch. It is almost like an “animal” without a head. But you have to see it to believe it:

BigDog: The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth


Mac + Firefox now can do -Dictionary-

Posted on July 8th, 2008 in Firefox, Mac, Security | No Comments »

Even though Safari from Apple seems to be a very good browser, having moved from the world of PCs and Windows to Mac quite recently, I’m still faithful to my favorite browser: Firefox. Why? The main reason for me is the amazing world of extensions, but specially NoScript, the extension that keep my computers sane and healthy.

Well, but this post is not about NoScript, it is about a small annoyance with the interactivity between Firefox and Mac: I couldn’t open the Mac Dictionary when selecting words in Firefox. Today I found an extension called “Look Up in Dictionary 0.1” that just create that connection between these two programs, and finally I can search from any word on the Mac dictionary from Firefox as I do from email, safari, skype, etc., etc. It add the missing Look Up in Dictionary option to the options menu when selecting a word.

Firefox menu options with dictionary lookup integrated

Sometimes I wonder how many people bother with these problems. Let me know if you find this post useful