#CoolStuff – the largest paternoster lift in the world

Paternoster lift!

Just recently the University of Sheffield refurbished their paternoster lift. Now you’re probably thinking WHAT IS A PATERNOSTER LIFT? THERE ARE ACTUALLY DIFFERENT TYPES OF LIFTS? Well yea of course. So I walked happily into the Arts Tower at the Uni for a lecture and there I saw one of the coolest things ever. A paternoster lift.

Simply put its a lift that never stops! It’s like a conveyor belt, a vertical conveyor which carries people. Yea it’s dangerous, but its fun! It’s really slow though. Like really slow.

So I got my man Bruno to make a video of it. The Arts Tower, the Paternoster Lift and the view from the highest building in Sheffield (the arts tower).

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#BBM – How to read BBM messages without notifying the sender

One of BlackBerry Messenger’s great features is the notification system. Yes, the small tick with the ‘D’ or ‘R’ next to it telling the sender that your message has been Delivered or Read by the recipient.

We’ve all had times when we do not want to reply to the message straight away. But you’ve read the message. So the sender knows you’re not replying, on purpose! They’re gonna hate you. They’re gonna think there’s something wrong with you. The same old ‘why didnt you reply to my message?’ question will pop up in the next question. I mean it was all good with text messaging where you could just say ‘o sorry, I didn’t get your text’ or ‘I didn’t read it’; but these pathetic excuses don’t work with BBM messages. Your sender knows that the message was delivered, in fact they even know you read it because their little tick next to the message had a ‘R’ written next to it.

The Read and Delivered status

So how to read the message, without having that ‘D’ status change to ‘R’.

To put it simply: Chat History.

Yes.

You must ‘Save Chat History’. Yes that must be enabled for you to sneakily read the message without notifying the sender. What you do next is simple. When you receive a new message, just View Chat History for that contact and open the most recent chat history. There you will see the message and you can happily read it.

This way it will never inform the sender that you have read the message and you won’t be pressured into replying straight away!

Have fun. Stay sneaky.

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&theater – how to get rid of the new facebook theater view for pictures

Facebook has just started using the new theater view. Its supposedly an upgrade to their photo view system which might save users and facebook some data bandwidth. But in all honesty, its FUGLY!!

owh and if you don’t know what fugly means . . .urbandictionary is your best friend =)

Back to the point, heres a screenshot of the different photo views:

Although its meant to be an upgrade and i can really see it working its not so good. I see how they’ve maybe tried to make it look better and more like a flash gallery, with a faded background, but the black background just looks UGLY !! Also you can click anywhere to go to the next picture, while to go back to the previous one, you have to carefully align your mouse pointer to the back arrow and click and hope it doesn’t go to the next picture.

So here I’m going to list the ways I’ve discovered, been told, or just found online to get rid of the new theater view.

The URL edit:

If you look closely at the url while viewing a photo in the new theater mode you will notice it ends with ‘&theater’. Well just simply delete ‘&theater’ and press enter. You will be back to the normal photo view.

The F5 refresh:

The simplest way by far, is to simply refresh the page. It can easily be done by pressing F5 and BAAM you are back to the old photo view. Notice that the ‘&theater’ is still in the URL, however you are back in the view type.

The New TAB:

Another great way to get rid of the theater view is to simply right click on the photo and open in a new tab. This will by default open picture in a new tab in the old photo view type.

Greasemonkey:

Greasemonkey is a great addon for Firefox, that is now also available for Chrome. It allows you to add custom scripts and provides a great resource for a large variety of possibilities.

The facebook photo theater killer . . .available at http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/96773 . . . is a greasemonkey script that while in use will automatically only open the facebook photos in the old photo view type.

Greasemonkey can be downloaded for firefox here at : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

Greasemonkey for Chrome (called Greasemetal) is available here at: http://www.mychromeaddons.com/chrome-addon-greasemetal-greasemonkey-for-chrome/