February 22, 2005
Howto use your PocketPC as a WiFiphone
It's an older HOWTO and Vonage doesn't have unlimited minutes with their Softphone plan anymore. But still a good one to follow if you're interested in cutting the wires and being able to be reached anywhere there is broadband.
Via Engadget
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February 21, 2005
Securing Windows: Guide to Desktop Security
This tutorial from Darius at OSNews shows that Windows can somewhat be secured, straight off installation. This requires some knowledge about slipstreaming your install CDs which might thwart newbies from working the magic, but definitely worth the read.
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February 20, 2005
Howto secure your e-mail over Public WiFi
Saw this post for MacOS-X, but it conceptually works exactly the same for every other OS. This tutorial covers why you should secure your email over public WiFi and how to do it. Most of the howto covers SSH tunneling which can be done through Windows (PUTTY), or Linux. Good when you don't want the next guy over in the airport to just happen to read your e-mail about what you drank last night.
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February 19, 2005
Low-cost recording studio HOWTO
With the Mac-mini, you can now provide great quality music with a low-cost music studio. Engadget has the HOWTO here. Engadget is using Garageband, that comes with iLife. Joi uses this on his Mac so I have no doubt it works rather well.
Via Engadget
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February 18, 2005
VoIP Tutorial for your home phone lines
Jake Ludington has a VoIP tutorial on how to re-wire your house so that you can leave your phones in the walljacks. The tutorial includes pictures and very clear and concise. Remember to add lightning protection when you attempt to do this project!
Via Lockergnome
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February 17, 2005
Reaching remote servers through OpenSSH
A short but sweet tutorial on linux.com on OpenSSH. For anyone that has worked on any sort of remote login, they know to use SSH. For those that don't know, better read this quick and dirty tutorial.
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February 16, 2005
Profitable Blogging for Independent Publishers
Ran across this Robin Good blog entry. How to Make Money with your Blog Site. With twelve different steps on how to turn your blog into some extra money. Might be useful for some of the local bloggers out there that are looking to supplement their incomes with their blog readership.
Take a looksie here on Robin Good's blog.
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February 15, 2005
Windows XP CLI Reference
Anyone that knows Unix knows that there is nothing more powerful than knowing the command line. Fortunately for point-clickers, Windows XP has a command line interface. Here are all of the commands for the interface. Useful? Definitely.
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February 14, 2005
urlinfo.info
Ever have a URL that you thought you had correct, but nothing came of it? With URLINFO.info, you can find out if the correct URL has been submitted.
How it works: URLINFO takes an incorrect URL and points to a correct URL. So if someone has typed http://www.mikrosoft.com and the correct one is http://www.microsoft.com, then the suggested correct URL will be given. These are based on submissions, so there is a chance that your URL does not exist.
Try it here.
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February 13, 2005
Backup your Mac via RsyncX
All you need to backup a MacOS system is rsync and an external harddrive. Unfortunately, rsync requires you to remember Unix console commands. With a pretty GUI and an easy way to set up the backup, what else is stopping you from backing up your Mac?
ForeverGeek < RsyncX
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February 12, 2005
FireFoxIE
If you're having troubles shifting over to FireFox, but you are sick of the popup ads and the other security holes of Internet Explorer, FireFox now has a new extension! FireFoxIE, an extension to FireFox that makes it look and feel like Internet Explorer without the problematic issues.
For most users using FireFox, there is not really a need for this extension. For converting current Internet Explorer users, please take some time to read ALL of the tutorial. There is quite a bit that needs to be done to make everything feel the same. Estimated time: 5-15 minutes.
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February 11, 2005
Gmail Tips - The Complete Collection
All the Gmail Tips that you would probably need (for now), and perhaps a few more that you never will use.
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February 10, 2005
A Faster Better Windows XP + SP2
This site shows you how to make Windows XP run faster with SP2. Yes, you read that correctly. SP2. Please read the whole tutorial site. Word of advice, Service Pack 2 actually does slow down your computer. So performing these tweaks might just get your computer back to norm speeds.
Forever Geek < A Faster Better Behaved Windows XP
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February 09, 2005
Need to access a corrupt CD/DVD image?
The best way to access a CD/DVD image is through Smart Projects' IsoBuster. This little tool will allow you to recover files from a trashed CD/DVD, or scanning the files in images. This is a Windows application, but works under Linux's Wine.
Freeware/Shareware.
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February 08, 2005
Talk to SmarterChild
SmarterChild is the way to IM. You can ask it questions and it'll tell you great things like the answers! AND you can have a conversation with it.
This is Convergent's neat little IM AI. Check it out. Just add SmarterChild to your IM!
Q: What is SmarterChild? A: SmarterChild is an interactive agent built by Conversagent, Inc. Interactive agents are software applications, often called "bots," that interact with users on Instant Messaging or other text messaging services. You can "chat" with an interactive agent, whether on the web, over IM, or on a wireless device, the same way you talk to any other contact. To talk with SmarterChild, just send him a message saying "hi!"
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February 07, 2005
Speeding up FireFox. Part Deux
Speeding up FireFox the Right Way is a great website to tweak your browser for you power users. This looks at a fast computer::slow connection, fast computer::fast connection, and other configurations. So visit the site for more tweaking.
For more involved tweaking of Firefox, take a look at the FireFox Tweak Guide.
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February 06, 2005
Put your Blackberry 7100T on crack!
No, it's not a drug analogy. But if you ever want to make your Blackberry 7100T just a little bit more powerful, I suggest taking a look at this site. MobileWhack just happens to have some of the best applications you can install on the "crackberry" and give it some beefier uses.
For example: The Berry411 Search Tool.
Berry 411 is an awesome utility that feeds the right query to Google and gets a nice and neat search result back to you for local shops, movie times, and price checks via Froogle.
Via ForeverGeek < MobileWhack
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February 05, 2005
Howto install internal wireless into a laptop
Sure you could go and buy a PCMCIA card and be done with it. And perhaps the range of the internal antenna is not as large as you would like it. But wouldn't it be better to not have a jutting piece of plastic on the side of your laptop?
Tom's Hardware has a guide to help you install that internal wireless card.
YOU MUST HAVE THE FOLLOWING:
* A mini-PCI slot
* An internal antenna
This is basically a setup for those laptop manufacturers that provided the hookups, but wanted you to pay more for the internal wireless and you really just didn't want to pony up the extra $$$.
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February 04, 2005
Access your home server remotely!
Anyone that has been in the corporate arena has probably heard of Symantec's PCAnywhere, a program that let's you take control of computers at work, or home just as you would logging into the computer itself (except in a window).
Opensource provides a couple of great solutions. The easiest would probably be RealVNC. VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. This is how it works.
The second to try would be TightVNC. There are a number of features that make it superior to the original VNC, but that is up to you to decide.
The last would be FreeNX. FreeNX is a bit more difficult to install, but has vastly better networking abilities. What does this mean? You can remote-control your computer over a 56k modem. Original based on NoMachine's proprietary NX where the core was open-sourced. A howto is here to help those that are interested in pursuing a server/client system based on FreeNX.
All of these solutions allow the user to be mobile, but access the power wherever it may be without bringing it along. Useful? Definitely.
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February 03, 2005
Curious as to how much traffic your server puts out? MRTG is your friend
I saw and used MRTG back when it was released in 1995. It has come a long way since then. MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) basically shows you a graph of how much you are outputting via your network, and how much traffic is accessing your server. Yes, INPUT/OUTPUT. Banded together with a statistics package (Webalizer or AWSTATS), this can be a very formidable tool in the weaponchest of a server administrator.
Screenshots of MRTG here.
MRTG-eth.pl is a perl script that can setup MRTG without setting up an SNMP daemon. Too much information? Just go take a look.
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February 02, 2005
Newbie guide to protecting your children online
Found an interesting little tidbit on Antionline. It is a bit dated, and there are better pieces of software out these days to do the same thing. But this is definitely a worthwhile read for those that have children, are technological-handicapped, and did I mention have children? Read the quick guide here.
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February 01, 2005
Want to optimize your bootup in Linux?
There are a couple ways to optimize a linux bootup.
You can:
1) Optimize your kernel - recompile your kernel so that all the essential things boot straight from kernel, maximizing speed.
2) Optimize your current boot configuration (services)
3) Run stage 2 processes in parallel
First you must diagnose your kernel. I suggest to use BootChart. Bootchart is a wonderful program that documents what services are proceeding at what time during the bootup and gives you a timeline and CPU usage outlook. This helps clean up some services and re-time bootup sequences.
You can do the first by following step-by-step on The Linux Documentation Project's website here. For specific distributions, there are easier ways to do this.
The second step is simple. Take a look at your init.d and turn off any services that you do not need to use at bootup. For a laptop, this may include ftp server services, ssh server services, etc.
The third step, I would suggest to take a look at runit. Simply, runit takes your stage 2 and processes services in parallel instead of one at a time. This will maximize your processor load and decrease bootup time.
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January 31, 2005
MacOS X: Onyx
Titanium Software has a free optimization tool called Onyx.
As per Mark's word:
Titanium's OnyX is a nifty little OS X maintenance program - runs the cron scripts, repairs disk permissions, clears caches, etc.
Useful? probably. If someone wants to buy me a Mac, I'll be happy to test it for you. Otherwise, I'll take Mark's word for it.
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January 30, 2005
MacOSX: TextWrangler... free?
TextWrangler is written by BareBones. BareBones wrote BBEdit, and MailSmith, both very wonderful tools in the MacRealm of things. TextWrangler is a text editor, similar to Notepad for Windows, but with some better features.
BareBones is offering TextWrangler... FOR FREE? Hey. Never say you say there isn't anything good for Mac.
Brought to you by GLUG's Mark (via GLUG's Adam).
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January 29, 2005
MacOS X: Get finkin'
Fink and Fink Commander are one of the best utilities for MacOS X, if you're looking to play with Linux based applications.
Without getting too technical, the linux applications were ported so that MacOSX could read them. Not everything is there, but there are a good number of binary files that you can install. Increase the breadth of MacOSX!
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January 28, 2005
Fugu - A Mac OS X SFTP, SCP and SSH Frontend
If you didn't like Cyberduck, try this for FTP. A 2003 MacOSX winner for best use of open-source. Fugu is a front-end GUI for SFTP, SCP transfers and allows for ssh tunneling.
Some of the brilliant features:
* Drag and drop upload and download of files.
* External editor support.
* Image previews.
* Directory upload (not natively supported in SFTP).
* Permissions, owner and group modification.
* Directory histories.
* Support for international characters, including Chinese and Japanese glyphs.
* A Console, which may be used like a command line SFTP session.
* Support for Public Key Authentication.
* Support for connections to alternate ports.
* Full Aqua interface.
* SCP support.
* Ability to create SSH Tunnels.
* Keychain support.
Recommended by a good friend from GLUG, Mark Hagenbuch.
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January 27, 2005
Serious about Audioblogging? Let's take a look..
If you're truly serious about audioblogging, take a look at baffledexpert's microphone recommendations. For $100+ per microphone, this is not for the faint of heart, but these probably do fairly well.
To create a podcast, just follow along in this tutorial from baffledexperts. The site gives screenshots and a very good howto for any level of expertise.
So there you go... audioblog away!
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January 26, 2005
Add a moblog to spice up your blog!
Here are some tutorials to add a moblog.
For those that do not have Radio Userland, or Movable Type, or do not have the patience for actual installs, look to the Flickr howto at the bottom.
To your MovableType blog. This is mainly targeted for those that have those Motorola v710s or if you must have another phone, some other brands. I would suggest using this one if you installed it on your own server:
Moblog MT-Sidebar MFOP - easterwood
This one is easier if you have it hosted elsewhere and do not want to deal with as much hassle:
Moblog MT-Sidebar MFOP2 - gme.jp
If you wish to use a easier to read tutorial, Ben Milleare has a pretty good tutorial here.
If you have a Radio Userland account, take a look at David Davies' puts together his moblog. This is probably a very good step-by-step that I've seen for Radio Userland.
Sick of all that work? Use Flickr. By far, one of the easiest ways to add imagery from your mobile phone by setting up a free account and uploading your photo streams from your phone. Then just add the tags from Flickr into your blog, and voila! Need a tutorial?
All this trouble and I don't even have a camera phone...
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January 25, 2005
Blogging with Movable Type
If you've never looked at Movable Type, definitely take a looksie. Written by Six Apart, now owner of Movable Type, Typepad, and LiveJournal. While one of the most annoying installs ever (for the free version), it has practically all of the features that anyone could wish for and definitely is as versatile as the author needs it.
I would suggest installing MT-Blacklist ASAP to moderate/deny blog spammers.
Otherwise, follow this tutorial from Tokyoshoes and have fun!
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January 24, 2005
HTML Compress
Useful little tool for Windows by Freesoft called, HTML Compress. Why use this? This removes all unnecessary white space in HTML, PHP, Javascript, VBscript, and CSS. It is in effect lossy compression, similar to the graphical compression style that JPG implements. Doing so will free up space, and decrease server load, and display on the browser faster!
What could you possibly lose from doing this except faster everything. Well, perhaps a bit of readability...
Works with Windows 98, 2000, and XP. From Lockergnome.
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January 23, 2005
Traceroute for Windows - 3D Traceroute
For those that use linux, there's the network tool that has been around for ages called traceroute. This tracks the IP address as the routers send the packets along to see how the packets are routed. Eventually, there were similar tools that plotted on a map, where traces were similar to geotrace and others.\
There are a couple of tools similar to this one, but this is the one that I dug up called 3D Traceroute. It still implements the same thing for that the 3d traces by linux, except that it's on a Windows platform. It only runs on Windows 2k and XP, but it is freeware. Buy the PRO version if you find this useful.
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January 22, 2005
E-mail encryption? no problem. Ciphire Mail has you covered
CiphireMail is only in its beta stages, but it has support for Windows, MacOSX and Linux. If you wish to know how it works, here's the overview.
It's not a difficult install, and works in the background like Norton antivirus. Pretty useful for those pieces of e-mail that you don't want hijacked. BoingBoing sings its praises here.
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January 21, 2005
Javascript drag and drop list
Simon Cozens, is an O'Reilly lackey and manages perl.com alongside writing many books on Perl.
He has modified Youngpup's DOM-DRAG to re-order lists right there on the page. Very interesting. Take a looksie here with an example!
ForeverGeek provided.
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January 20, 2005
Need antivirus? Here are a couple of solutions
Most people know the names of Norton Antivirus and Mcafee AntiVirus. There's also Panda Antivirus, and Trendmicro, and a few others that are on the market.
What you probably don't know are the couple of FREE antivirus utilities that are either freeware for personal use, or open-source.
Trendmicro has a great utility called HOUSECALL. Java applet that scans your system. I usually use this on computers I have no clue about and happen to not bring my rescue utility USB keydrive. Very useful to find what's wrong with a unknown Windows computer.
Grisoft has a suite called AVG Free Edition. This is provided for free to home users. Very useful, and as good as Norton or Symantec in use, although not as pretty. Works fine on the couple of Windows machines that I do administrate.
Running linux or Windows? Open-source has you covered. ClamAV is an antivirus suite that was written by open-source developers for servers and workstations. There is also a Windows port called ClamWin.
As you can see, there are many solutions without breaking the bank, thanks to different licensing schemes and open-source. Support those software developers!
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January 19, 2005
Need to Instant Message but afraid someone's reading your messages?
Use GAIM. GAIM is open-source and supports plugins. OTR (Off-the-Record Messaging) plugin adds in encryption, authentication, and deniability.
Worthwhile if you're the paranoid type and think that big brother is watching you.
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January 18, 2005
Windows feeling a bit soft to malware/spyware and other attacks?
Sniff-Em has two very good pieces of freeware to help out matters.
HARDEN-IT
Supporting Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003, this little program takes your computer and takes care of simple fixes that usually your administrator would apply with all the technical mumbo jumbo for network security.
SECURE-IT
Supporting Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP and 2003, this little program takes your computer and takes care of hardening your local Windows security.
What do you have to lose? It's freeware.
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January 17, 2005
Adium X for MacOS X
Open-source was missing a good instant messaging client for MacOS X until Adium X came along. Available with support for multiprotocols, this fills a gap that GAIM did not fill in the MacOSX realm.
Take a look here!
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January 16, 2005
Cyberduck FTP for MacOS X
Probably the most well-touted ftp/sftp client for MacOS X, and it's open-source! Get it here.
MacWorld
There are a few free FTP clients for the Mac, but none is as polished or as easy to use as Cyberduck.
Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing writes:
I've been using David Kocher's Cyberduck FTP client for several months now. It's freeware for OS X and it is fabulous. All the other FTP clients I've used have been hard to learn and are confusing, but I've never had to look at the help file for Cyberduck. I don't even know if it has a help file.
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January 15, 2005
Black Viper series: Windows XP Super Tweaks
In the last of the Black Viper series, Black Viper here shows the Windows XP super tweaks. These tweaks are probably recommended for a better system configuration and help protect your systems and make them run more efficiently. Note to read all of the information since there are some tweaks that depend on others.
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January 14, 2005
Black Viper series: Windows services
There are plenty of services in Windows NT (NT4, 2000, XP) based systems that you can turn off and increase your system resources. Black Viper developed some guides for service configurations (2000 and XP). He has also given safe configurations, power configurations, and default. He goes on to describe the services in case you need to know they are for.
Useful for tweaking your system to work for you.
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January 13, 2005
Black Viper series: Operating System Guides
Black Viper wrote some installation guides that are very good. If you're looking to install:
Red Hat 8.0
Windows 2000 Professional and Server
Windows 2003 Enterprise Server
Windows Me
Windows XP Home
Windows XP Professional
Take a look here. You won't be disappointed!
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January 12, 2005
Black Viper series: Getting strange popup messages?
Here is one of my favorite sites to speed up your Windows computer. Black Viper has a lot of good things that I recommend you to take a look at. In the tips and tricks that I post in the next few days, there will be some other things that I take a look at when speeding up a Windows based computer.
Getting strange popup messages? Not surfing the web? Here's how to fix it.
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January 11, 2005
Need PDFs but can't afford Adobe Acrobat? No sweat
PDFCreator for Windows is your open-source replacement. Released under the GPL (GNU General Public License), this program has been the basis of driving other features into Adobe Acrobat. Migrate Word documents, pictures, slides into PDF with PDF Creator and worry no more about compatibility issues when you hand someone your files!
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January 10, 2005
Thinking about migrating your office to Linux? Big Blue is here to help
IBM provides a guide to migrate your office to Linux. Desktops of course, but why else would you migrate? If your systems administrator is still running on Windows IIS platform, take a long hard look at why you're paying for a rebooting nightmare. Otherwise, take a look at how to manage a workstation migration smoothly from big Blue.
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January 09, 2005
Page Snooper
Ever wonder how someone works some HTML code but the website designer has put in some "stops" to prevent you from viewing the source? This little fun number (Page Snooper) will print out the HTML code for you to browse through. Remember, don't steal other people's code, but learn how to do your own from looking at theirs!
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January 08, 2005
Statistics tracking for a website
Many of you probably would like more detailed tracking of your website(s). It probably doesn't come as a shock that Sitemeter just doesn't provide enough information on the free end of things, and while it is not very expensive to pay for the premium account, you would like to have more control over the statistics and tracking of your websites (or blogs). In comes AWSTATS. AWSTATS is great utility that allows you to track site traffic to the Nth degree. Those that are familiar with Webalizer, can also appreciate the effort driven home by these two open-source programs. They are both free to download, but require a bit of tinkering and some permission issues from your hosting provider. If you can get those, have at it. Here's an example of AWSTATS at BoingBoing.
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January 07, 2005
Twenty Six Tips for 15K a day
I dug this up from the archives after seeing that there were some people that were looking to generate more traffic to their blogs. While this is some dated material, it is also a worthwhile read.
Take a look at SearchEngineWorld's article.
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Need a good OCR program?
SimpleOCR will do the trick. OCR is Optical Character Recognition. This is a technology that is used in scanners where your documents are scanned and the text is recreated in a textual file. The program isn't the best ever, but it is royalty-free and usable. This is not open-source, but it is free.
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January 02, 2005
Sandboxie: For those that MUST use Internet Explorer
Definitely should take a look at Sandboxie if you are a die-hard Internet Explorer user and just cannot stand that orangey colored fox as a logo. This little product basically creates a "sandbox" of sorts for Internet Explorer's browsing session. For those that do not understand the term, a sandbox is a place where code that has been unauthorized or not-tested can be placed without endangering your system (much like the way Java was written). It costs $20 to register for a lifetime registration key if you like it, but it is free for personal use.
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January 01, 2005
Some open source utilities
Since Len loves this stuff. Here it goes: If you want to replace a lot of your Windows applications with open-source, The Open CD Project will allow you to participate in Windows replacement applications such as OpenOffice, PDF Creator, and others.
If you want clean (no spyware software), use Clean Software. There are a lot of other pieces of software that can be used as replacement such as ReactOS (Windows NT4 replacement). If there is anything you need via open-source, let me know and I can probably find a replacement.
Personal note: What do I use? Linux. Everything except my work computer, which I have no say over, or else I would load that with linux also. I support OSS fully and if you're interested in learning more about linux, join a Greensboro Linux User Group meeting.
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Speeding up Firefox
While this is some older news for techies, this is something that I thought everyone that is using Firefox could probably use if they're on a broadband connection. Read below on how to speed up FireFox over a broadband connection. Pulled from Hack a day, care of Forever Geek.
1.Type about:config into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
2. Alter the entries as follows:
Set network.http.pipelining to true
Set network.http.proxy.pipelining to true
Set network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to 0. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
If you're using a broadband connection you’ll load pages MUCH faster now!
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