Articles from June 2008
Posted by jf on June 17, 2008
FireFox 3 is coming today, at 1PM Eastern Daily Time. You can get it here. Too many new features to list, this browser is the best I ever used so far, even with the earlier Betas and RC’s. BTW: Google Browser Sync is no more supported by Google, and is not running under FireFox 3, [...]
Categories: Announcements, Firefox, Linux, Non-Geek, Winblows
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Posted by jf on June 17, 2008
Notepad++ is a replacement for the usual notepad program in Windows, but since its first version, it was always adding features that is counterpart frmo Microsoft did not have. The latest one is for code auto-completion. There is a full article at CyberNet’s blog. You can get the latest version at Sourceforge.net.
Categories: Announcements, New products, News, Technical, Winblows
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Posted by jf on June 16, 2008
There are pages on the internet that are made to be displayed on ly on the Apple iPhone. Such web pages are looking at your browser identification to decide whether you can view the page or not. Several magazines are available to iPhone users only. This will show you how to make your FireFox fake [...]
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Posted by jf on June 13, 2008
The new Opera 9.5 features this speed dial, originally designed to be 3X3, like a phone pad. But did you know that you can actually have the speed dial at any size ? Do the following: type about:opera to find where the file speeddial.ini is located. Close Opera, and edit the speeddial.ini file from the [...]
Categories: Linux, News, Technical, Winblows
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Posted by jf on June 12, 2008
Through an article at SlashDot, a report from Verizon reveals interesting information about security breaches. The article at SlashDot is there: http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/12/0322227.shtml. The page from Verizon is there. The article includes a link to the report itself, a PDF file.
Categories: News, Non-Geek, Security
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Posted by jf on June 5, 2008
As I was reading the news early this morning, I read this article about Firefox 3 RC2 being available, and the mention of this extension, named AwesomeSearch. It cannot install under FireFox 3 as-is yet, unless you put this hack to accept extensions regardless of versions requirements. However, once this is done, AwesomeSearch installs easily, [...]
Categories: Announcements, Firefox, News, Technical
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Posted by jf on June 3, 2008
The following link will take you to a great list of tools. Instead of just recopying the whole list (including the great descriptions), I will just refer to it here. http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/06/top-security-tools-in-ubuntu.html
Categories: Linux, News, Security, Technical
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