A couple years ago I used a password manager for Firefox aptly named "Password Hasher". It let me use a master key to log into all of my website accounts and it was pretty handy. Nowadays I use Chrome and I've changed most of my old Password Hasher passwords, but there's still a few sites in which I haven't. For these, I use an HTML file sitting on my computer that mimics the same functionality as the Firefox extension, but it's clunky and not very handy at all. So since Chrome extensions are so wicked easy to build (being only Javascript and HTML), I figured building a Password Hasher Chrome extension would be an easy project. It was!

Download the latest version here

It auto-fills the "site" field with the URL of your current opened tab, and there's an options panel to tweak how your passwords are hashed. It basically has the exact same functionality as the original Firefox extension, with a few minor exceptions.

Of course, though, I didn't check to see if anyone else had created one before I started. So there's already an extension for Chrome that does this, but it's kinda ugly, and I trust mine a lot more! So use mine!

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It all started on March 25, 2008. I had a domain and I needed to put it to use. I set up a humble wiki and let my friends and coworkers create pages and upload photos. It was pretty alright.

Since then, TOTALLIES hasn't changed much. Until now. I figured since the wiki was really only used for uploading silly images, that I should reduce some of the unnecessary load on my server and switch to something a little more appropriate. So I set up a Tumblr account and changed my domain's name servers, and said goodbye to an old friend.

Say hello to: TOTALLIES 2.0

I decided to take the website in a new direction as well; All of the images I am uploading are going to be weird/and or gross. Yep. Sorry if you don't like it (not actually sorry). I hope everyone still finds it entertaining. 

I also created my own theme because I wasn't 100% happy with any of the ones they let you choose. I looked through a lot. I like the one I made and I am going to improve on it over time. I still need to find a place for the TOTALLIES mascot, happy cat.

Enjoy.

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So bookmarklets are all the rage these days. There can be some pretty useful ones like Readability, which strips non-useful information from any webpage, leaving you with nice easy to read text. There are of course the less useful ones, such as Cornify, which covers any webpage with unicorns and rainbows. 

Over lunch today, I (with a lot of help from Brent (thanks Brent!)) created Papmic Sansrus. Papmic Sansrus has the ability to make any webpage the most offensive webpage in the world... but only if you are a designer. It will replace the font of every word to an alternating combination of Comic Sans and Papyrus.

Click here to see Papmic Sansrus in action, or drag the link to your bookmarks bar for easy use on any website. (If you are reading this in a feed reader, you might need to visit my actual website to witness the glory.)

My original intent was to alternate fonts between every letter, but for simplicity's sake, I decided to make a lite version that limits it to every word instead. Through a happy mistake, however, we got it working the way I originally wanted. Click here to see the ultra version, though you might want to refresh the page if you're reading this with the lite version active. This ultra version works well in Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but has some trouble in Internet Explorer. It also might break some page layouts slightly, but I feel it only adds to the effect. It will also cause your browser to chug/crash if you try it on a very text-heavy site.

Brent is also the author of another fun bookmarklet called 3D. Using this without 3D glasses will probably induce headaches. A couple more hideous ones I've found add drop shadows to everything, or add drop shadows to just text. I am unaware of the author of these gems.

Combine Papmic Sansrus with 3D for the ultimate web experience.

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And the future looks good. In only 5 years, we'll have flying cars and hoveboards. In nine years we'll have life-like replicants that will work as laborers in dangerous off-world environments. Let's hope they don't decide to fight back. 

So it's 2010 and it officially sounds like we're living in the future. Twenty-Ten. I guess it's a pretty big deal. I originally wanted to write up a "best of the decade" list of music albums, but there are too many. Do I limit it to ones I listened to as they were released, or do I include ones from the early-mid 2000s that I have only discovered recently? So many options. So I'm not doing that.

Instead, I decided to focus only on 2009 and create a party mix CD of some of my favorite tunes from the past year:

Jeff's 2009 Party Mix

1. Röyksopp - Röyksopp Forever
2. The Golden Filter - Solid Gold
3. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Tooth Decay
4. Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity of Huge
5. Calvin Harris - The Rain
6. Danger - 00:01
7. MSTRKRFT - 1,000 Cigarettes
8. Boys Noize - Starter
9. Huoratron - Gbay
10. Infected Mushroom - End of the Road
11. Dan Deacon - Snookered
12. Condo Fucks - Shut Down, Part 2
13. Street Sweeper Social Club - Promenade
14. Them Crooked Vultures - Gunman
15. The Flaming Lips - Watching the Planets

Oh and look, somebody hosted it right here, and it's totally not even on my web server, completely absolving me of any legal issues. How convenient! Total playing time comes in at just under 70 minutes, so you can burn it to a CD which everyone totally still does.

And now for some miscellaneous fun statistics for the past year:

Top 10 Google Queries

1. php date
2. zenses
3. totom
4. foobar
5. wamp
6. sabnzbd
7. adsense
8. edmonton ab
9. zend framework
10. totallies

I can never remember how to format various dates in PHP, I guess.

Top 10 Last.fm Artists

1. Nine Inch Nails (821 plays)
2. The White Stripes (561 plays)
3. Atmosphere (350 plays)
4. The Beatles (285 plays)
5. The Smashing Pumpkins (278 plays)
6. Infected Mushroom (270 plays)
7. The Flaming Lips (269 plays)
8. Modest Mouse (264 plays)
9. Beastie Boys (264 plays)
10. Brothers Backword (179 plays)

No surprise here, except for maybe The Beatles being so high up there. I decided to listen to every single one of their albums chronologically since they were all remastered in 2009. It was neat. I might do it again.

Top 10 Last.fm Songs

1. The White Stripes - It's My Fault For Being Famous (29 plays)
2. Danger - 00:01 (feat. Vyle) (27 plays)
3. The White Stripes - Astro (26 plays)
4. Röyksopp - Röyksopp Forever (24 plays)
5. Danielson - Did I Step On Your Trumpet (24 plays)
6. Infected Mushroom - End Of The Road (22 plays)
7. Street Sweeper Social Club - Clap For The Killers (20 plays)
8. Nine Inch Nails - Not So Pretty Now (20 plays)
9. Jane's Addiction - Chip Away (20 plays)
10. Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks (20 plays)

This list differs quite a bit from my 2009 Party Mix album mostly because a lot of these songs weren't released in 2009. Go figure!

I wrote 34 blog posts. My website had 5,719 visits, 9,920 pageviews, and 4,276 unique visitors. I sent 92 emails. I wish I had more stats. I basically wish everything kept incredible stats and let me see them. How many tweets have I made in 2009? How many people did I befriend on Facebook? How many people did I remove as a friend? How many gigabytes did I download? I guess I could keep track of these things myself, but that's way too much work and requires way more discipline than I'm prepared to invest.

Anyway, here's to living in the future.

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Much like my somewhat successful Pirate Trent Reznor, I've created a new spoof Twitter account for Oprah during my lunch break. Though instead of translating to Pirate, I've used my newly created Bro-Speak translator. 

I present: Broprah Winfrey. (Thanks Ryan Leland for the idea!)

Sadly, though, I'm not the first to have this idea. The Twitter username "broprah" was already taken for this exact purpose, but it hasn't been updated since August. Also it appears to be manually updated rather than with a translator. So basically: it sucks!

I'm still tweaking the translator quite a bit, as there are a lot of improvements that can be made. I'm going to use this Twitter account as a way to monitor and test REAL WORLD examples so I can make improvements.

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