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My first Google Chrome extension.

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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TOTALLIES two point oh.

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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Making the internet a better place, one bookmarklet at a time.

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.

Papmic Sansrus

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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Broprah Winfrey.

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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Super cool translator, bro.

I recently discovered that the best way to ask strangers on the internet for a favor is to use bro-speak. I've used this technique twice already with positive results. One person changed something on their website for me, and the other thanked me for the feedback and is "considering it". In order to use bro-speak you must first be bro-literate. Urban Dictionary defines this as "the state of being literate in the language of bros", or "the knowledge of how to speak and write like a bro".

To help you, I've created a rudimentary bro-speak translator, and I'm currently accepting suggestions for missing words or phrases that you think should be included. Try it out here. It works particularily well with certain phrases like "Hey man, how's it going? Are you going to the bar after work?", but not so well with others.

THAT'S WHY I NEED SUGGESTIONS.

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