Articles from June 2008



Firefox 3 is coming out now !!!

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, [...]

Notepad++ 5.0, now with Auto-Complete

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.

Make your desktop Firefox look like an iPhone

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 [...]

Add More Speed Dials in Opera 9.5

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 [...]

Interesting report about data breaches from Verizon

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.

Instant Google search right on your address bar in Firefox

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, [...]

Top Security Tools for Ubuntu

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