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Firefox in-page search tip

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Most Firefox users know about the super-fast in-page search (ctrl+F/Command+F) – it’s one of those features that have been there since Firefox 1 and prevent users from switching back to other web browsers. Did you know that you can instantly search for any text on a web page by hitting the forward slash and typing… Continue Reading Firefox in-page search tip

How https/ssl works

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

This is part of one of the workshops I’ve been giving at Brock this month (as it pertains to WebCT and security/privacy). I thought it had valud outside Brock’s walls. The videos on YouTUBE so that it’s hamsters can do the heavy work.

Take on Image Spam

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

HawkWings.net has a good write-up on MacInTouch reader Bill Benson’s rule for fighting image based spam. Basically, most of this image spam contains a heading Content-Type which contains multipart/related. You have to add the header to your rules in Mail.app, but that’s the only tough part. I would recommend you set the filter to change… Continue Reading Take on Image Spam

November is NeoOffice month

Wednesday, November 1st, 2006

Recently NeoOffice released NeoOffice 2.0 in a final beta format. NeoOffice is a rebuild of OpenOffice.org for Mac OSX. OpenOffice.org is an office suite that is being developed by the open source community, lead by Sun, that originally provided an office productivity suite to the free software based systems like Linux, Solaris and BSD. The… Continue Reading November is NeoOffice month

BlackBoard goes Metallica

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

On Monday I found out that BlackBoard (Bb) had been issued a patent on eLearning. Bb recently bought WebCt inc. which makes the learning management system that consumes most of my days at work. I was dismissive of it until I learnt about the subsequent lawsuits against Desire2Learn (D2L) the day afterwards. As far as… Continue Reading BlackBoard goes Metallica