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Bookmarklet to selectively print areas of web page

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This bookmarklet when clicked will let you select (multiple) custom sections of the current web page with shortcut combo Alt+left-mouse-click, then press Enter to Print just those sections. It'll show you which sections can be selected by highlighting the border of a section blue, as you hover with the mouse. The border turns red if you Alt+click it. A little HUD menu pops up top right to show the keyboard shortcut keys. There are two ways you can save this bookmarklet to use yourself. Either drag this link -> Selective-Print-bookmarklet  <- to your bookmarks toolbar. Or make a normal browser bookmark of this web page (can be any page because you're going to change the link, but this page will do). Then edit the bookmark and replace the entire link with the javascript string in the text box below. It's this javascript that does the bookmarklet magic: Copy javascript from here with the Copy button, or triple click, then Ctrl+C  Copy ...
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TokenHome liquid real estate

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Introduction This post is inspired by  this article  I read on 7th June 2021. Since no details were provided I decided to design my own implementation. TokenHome is a fictitious platform that  makes real estate more liquid, not only giving those with less disposable income access to the benefits of real estate investment, but also providing home owners with a flexible way to safely borrow against their home without fear of losing their home (as with legacy mortgages). I’ll update the post if any new caveats, insights, etc come to mind, so watch this space. This is how it works.  The actors involved “homeowner” who wants to safely borrow against their home “tokenholder” who wants to invest in the property market in a tokenised way (will become clear below) “TokenHome” the ficticious organisation that matches homeowner and tokenholder and acts as an intermediary. [I've since discovered that 1 or more real entities exist that use the name "TokenHome". This post has noth...
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Get Facebook Notifications on Chrome Desktop

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Just visit the mobile Facebook site http://m.facebook.com in the Google Chrome desktop browser and you will be prompted to allow notifications. If you accept, Chrome will enable Facebook notifications, which will appear in the bottom right corner of your PC. Sick of seeing them? Just follow these steps to switch notifications in Chrome off:  https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216?hl=en .
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Run Android Apps in Google Chrome Browser (yes really!)

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This guide will show you how to run Android apps in Chrome. You can run Play Store and non-Play Store apps. You just need the APK file for the app. I'll show you how to download the APK file for Google Play Store apps. For non-play Store apps you'll need to figure out how to get the APK yourself. Then you can run Android apps like Candy Crush (not sure if that will be convince or deter you!) on your desktop just using the Google Chrome browser! Follow these steps. Install the ARC Welder  app in Google Chrome. (This is a proper Google developer app ) In Chrome, click the "Apps" button in the Bookmarks bar.  This button is on the bookmarks toolbar, so you might need to go to Chrome settings, then "Bookmarks" > "Show bookmarks bar" to display it. Or go to the local apps page directly:  chrome://apps/ . Run the ARC Welder app with the following icon. Click the round orange plus button and select your Android app's APK file (for non...
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Kill Windows Processes That Won't Die with "Ultimate Process Killer"

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When trying to kill a process in Windows, you probably head for one of the following: The Processes tab in Windows Task Manager's, where you try killing the process (tree) Or Sysinternals Process Explorer , which may succeed where Task Manager failed.  However, if Sysinternals Process Explorer can't kill a process, you'd be forgiven for thinking that there is no hope and for wondering why Windows is still so darn stupid ;) However, this evening I succeeded in killing a very stubborn process using a utility named after a future Arnold Schwarzenegger movie: Ultimate Process Killer . It's free on Sourceforge and I was able to use it to successfully kill a process in Windows 7 that refused to be killed by the options mentioned above. I even tried suspending and unsuspending the process in Process Explorer, which I saw suggested somewhere, but that also didn't work for me. By the way, I have no idea how well it will work on other versions of Windows, but I r...
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