Orangutan attempts to hunt fish with spear April 28, 2008

“Orang hutan” means “forest man” in one of Indonesia’s many languages and our long-armed cousins do indeed show a remarkable ability to mimic our behaviour.

This individual had seen locals fishing with spears on the Gohong River.

Although the method required too much skill for him to master, he was later able to improvise by using the pole to catch fish already trapped in the locals’ fishing lines.

The image is part of a series taken for a new book, The Thinkers Of The Jungle, which also includes the first photograph of an orangutan swimming.

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Google: How to Access Filter by Date Dropdown Box April 28, 2008

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Filtering google searches by time periods has been one of the most frequently requested features. By manipulating the search url, you can trigger google’s filter by data dropdown box to appear. With this drop down box, you can easily select what time dates you want google to filter the results.

I often want to search for updated news on a common search term. For example, say you wanted to search for Obama news for the last 24 hrs. Using this little google hack, you can focus your search over whichever time period you want.

First goto google.com and search for your search term. I’m going to use “obama” as my example.

Obviously, I receive the highest ranked searches all-time for Obama.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=obama&btnG=Google+Search

Next, just add &as_qdr=d to the end of the URL and press ENTER.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=obama&btnG=Google+Search&as_qdr=d

This post was suggested by techcrunch who also points out that more focus can be obtained: Just change the =d to d5 for 5 days, or w5 for five weeks, or y5 for 5 year, etc.

An evidence of evolution April 28, 2008

First blog: My firefox extensions April 26, 2008

Firefox is my primary browser, I use it over 90%. I can not abandon IE because some sites in Chinese are IE only, and I can not pay online if I use FF.
I love FF, and its extensions. These extensions make my efficiency high. I feel cool when I use them.
Followings are my extensions:
Aardvark 2.9: amazing tools, can remove any part in pages. It also could reform pages when you remove elements. I use it with another extension : Clip to onenote
Access Flickr: We need it see photos at flickr in China….
Adblock Plus: no more words to commen it
All-In-One Gesture: Make all easy. I set up to open a new tab, down to close; right to forward and left to back
Better Gmail 2: A Grease Monkey scripts addon. My Gmail looks better now, and I know the types of attachments before open them.
BioFox : A bioinformatics addon, I use it because my major: molecular biology. I often search at NCBI etc.
BlogRovR: I like it! I got it just few days ago. I used it before, but did not knew how it useful. Because my feeds were few, BlogRovR can not show its fuctions. Now When I open a new page, I expect BlogRovR give me a wonderful related site.
Clip to onenote: MS Office 2007 onenote tool, easily clip what you are interested in to Onenote. Only a right click.
Colorful tabs: This addon make tabs beautiful, but there is some problem works with FF3B5. Colors are not full fill in tabs.
Cooliris Preview: You could see what the link is without open it or leave current page.
Delicious Bookmarks: Save all your bookmarks at delicious;Now what I use is a alpha-edition, it works perfect at FF3B5. “Last added” BUG was also fixed. I could not leave it every day
Digg sidebar: Read digg addon, refresh every 3-5 second, you can read the newest articals in digg
FasterFox: Understand with its name, make your FF faster
Forecast, foxclocks
gLadder: A proxy addon. You need it if you are also in China or you want to browse some forbidden sites.
Google calendar notifier: Show your calender agendas at your FF statubar
Googlebar lite: Official googlebar doesn’t work in FF3B5, so I choose this lite one to instead of it. Googlebar lite has the basic functions and quick links to google sites.
Highlighter: Highlight words in pages
HyperWords: A very powerful addon when you want to know a word. It can search, translate, link and wiki that word.
IEtab: Some sites are IE only, so you could open with IE in FF tabs
Minimize to Tray
Nightly taster tools: Now most of my addons are not campatibile to FF3B5, this addon can override all addons campatibility.
PicLens: A pictures and videos search tools, all pictures are showen at a black wall. Beautiful and quick.Support google, flickr, youtube…( I can not get filckr search result, why?)
PMOG: A game, take browsing sites as a mission
Scribefire: Blog tools, very useful. Support Live spaces, blogger, wordpress, livejournal….You could edit, insert images, video and add tags easily.
Split Browser: Cut your browser window as you wish
TwitterFox: Lets you know your twtter statuses and new messges
Zotero: References and note tools, like endnote. I know it support following sites :google scholar, youtube, wiki, amazon, get book, games, news, cites and videos information. (There is bugs in FF3B5, not show details and can note export)

Why I use this blog April 26, 2008

I am applying for a Ph.D position in biological science. I have sent over 150 letters of application, however I got only reject replies:(. Maybe my letters are not chamming, or my English is suck. So I decide to improve my English and make friends in WordPress.com. I hope you guys give me some suggesions for my words and sentences. Certainly, we are friends, we could disscuss all we are both interested here.

Hello world! April 26, 2008

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