Monthly Archives: December 2009

Songbird

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 31, 2009
I have recently become a huge fan of Song­bird, a free multi-platform media player based on Mozilla’s XUL­Run­ner. If you are any­thing like me, you may be ask­ing your­self what makes Song­bird spe­cial or worth your time. Why not just keep using iTunes, VLC, or Win­dows Media Player? Here are my rea­sons for choos­ing Song­bird over [...]
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The Shepherds

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 21, 2009
Yes­ter­day at church our Pri­mary watched Luke 2, a short video about Christ’s birth. Part of the video shows angels com­ing to tell shep­herds of the savior’s birth. Dur­ing this part of the movie I thought to myself that it was a bit ran­dom that some shep­herds saw angels when Christ was born. What made [...]
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Automatic JS Broken Image Replacement

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 17, 2009
It’s a sad fact of life, but some­times web­pages have bro­ken images. Wouldn’t it be nice if there were an easy way of auto­mat­i­cally replac­ing these bro­ken images? for (i = 0; i < document.images.length; i++) { var img = document.images[i]; img.onerror = function (evt) { this.src = "broken-image.gif"; } }; This [...]
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Hulu Ad Failures

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 11, 2009
I watch a lot of Hulu, and gen­er­ally I don’t really mind an ad or two. How­ever, I hate untar­geted ads. For exam­ple, ads for Mono­stat or birth con­trol pills. I’m a guy. Hulu knows I’m a guy (I checked, its in my Hulu pro­file). Why in the world are they show­ing me com­mer­cials for [...]
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Updated Cost of Food Page

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 10, 2009
I’ve updated my Cost of Food page to allow you to define who is in your fam­ily. So, for exam­ple, you can say that your fam­ily has one male age 19–50, one female age 19–50, and one child age 2–3. My cost of food cal­cu­la­tor will use USDA data to deter­mine the aver­age national monthly [...]
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Cost of Food for a Family of Two

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 6, 2009
Recently my wife, Becca, and I were try­ing to come up with num­bers for our monthly food bud­get, but weren’t sure how much to put in. Dur­ing this process, Becca found a cool page from the USDA that pro­vides monthly esti­mates for how much food should cost each month based on dif­fer­ent bud­gets. For exam­ple, [...]
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Buying glasses online

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 3, 2009
Recently, I’ve been hav­ing some trou­ble read­ing small print on my mon­i­tor. After talk­ing to my wife, I real­ized that my vision just isn’t what it used to be. After get­ting my pre­scrip­tion, we hit up Sam’s Club and found a nice pair that would cost $127 plus 5% sales tax. Yikes! I just need a pair [...]
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Quality of Life Purchases

By Jacob Allred | Published: December 1, 2009
My wife and I are tight­wads fru­gal. We’ve man­aged to save a good chunk of money by cut­ting a lot of the “extras” out of our lives, such as fre­quent trips to the movies and eat­ing out on a reg­u­lar basis. Occa­sion­ally we have friends or fam­ily imply (or some­times out­right say) that we aren’t [...]
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