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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010Batch Plug-in Update in Word Press
When Word Press introduced one click upgrade for pluggins, it was like Christmas in July. But this time maybe on the actual Christmas or perhaps slightly earlier with the release of Word Press 2.9, we will now be able to upgrade multiple pluggins with one click from our WordPress Admin [...]
10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog
Monday, May 11th, 2009With WordPress so popular these days, it’s becoming a bigger and bigger target for hackers, so securing your blog is more and more important. The catswhocode.com provide 10 Easy Ways to Secure your WordPress Blog.
They have a large array of useful WordPress tips and tricks, including another recent one about 10 awesome .htaccess hacks [...]
Check Firefox Bookmarks
Monday, March 9th, 2009Up until recently there was not a single add-on available for the Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser that would check the bookmarks for invalid or duplicate entries. Several add-ons existed that were able to perform the checks in Firefox 2. The reason for this was a change in how the bookmark data was stored.
Check [...]
Internet explorer losing ground to firefox and safari
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Internet Explorer’s share of the browser market is dropping, with a significant drop of 7% market share in the past year (according to figures released by the internet metrics provider, Net Applications).
It looks like FireFox has grabbed the lion’s share of users from Microsoft’s browser, with a gain of just under 4% to 21.5% (FireFox [...]
Greasefire Finds Greasemonkey Scripts for the Site You’re Visiting
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008One of the problems with using the Greasemonkey extension for firefox is knowing what scripts are available for the site you are visiting. Greasefire is a companion extension designed to help you customize your web browsing by finding user scripts for any page you’re currently visiting.
Once installed, the extension automatically searches the Greasemonkey script [...]
Why does Software Piracy hurt FOSS ?
Monday, October 27th, 2008jason stirk tweeted about an interesting article about the interaction and semantics, I suppose, of Usage and Piracy of Software, and it’s effect on Open Source Software.
The point to draw from it is that software piracy, while not giving cash to the software company, still provides support for them. The example used in the [...]
Stanford offers free CS, robotics courses
Thursday, September 18th, 2008Stanford University has launched a series of 10 free, online computer science (CS) and electrical engineering courses. The courses span an introduction to computer science and an introduction to artificial intelligence and robotics, among other topics.
The free courses are being offered “to students and educators around the world” under the auspices of Stanford Engineering Everywhere [...]
Useability: Linux / Unix v Closed Software
Thursday, August 7th, 2008A tweet from Linda Eastin pointed me at this old blog entry from Daring Fireball on Linux and Spray-on Useability, that takes aim at the Eric Raymond rant on Linux usability (the one where he can’t get CUPS working).
There’s an old engineering adage: “Fast, good, cheap: pick two.” (Where
“fast” regards development time, not performance.) Desktop [...]
Make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail Client
Friday, August 1st, 2008If you rely on online mail clients such as Gmail then you might like the following tip coming directly from the official Gmail blog that describes how to to make Gmail the default Firefox 3 Mail client (i.e. the mail client that is loaded whenever a mailto link is clicked in Firefox 3.
You’ll need to [...]
what is the firefox about: protocol ?
Thursday, July 17th, 2008Many firefox users know that typing about:config in the location bar provides access to user preferences, that can’t be changed any other way.Some fun and useful (occassionally, anyway) Firefox about: links.
about:
about:blank
about:bloat
about:buildconfig
about:cache
about:config
about:crashes (only Firefox 3)
about:credits
about:logo
about:kitchensink
about:license
about:mozilla
about:plugins
about:robots
Either type the links in your firefox location bar or selct the links if you are curious about their purpose.
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