Archive for August, 2006
Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking
I loveLifehacker, though many of their recommendations/suggestions aren’t applicable. Especially their computer articles, which tend to be Windows/Mac oriented. So when I first read one of their latest Hack Attack articles (Firefox and the art of keyword bookmarking), I assumed that I could just ignore it. Fortunately, I read far enough through the article to get to this bit:
Don’t be shy about adding keyword shortcuts to your favorite bookmarklets. For example, I’m absolutely crazy about the GMailThis! bookmarklet (it was actually the basis of my Bookmarking with Gmail feature). If I’m on a page I want to email to someone, all it takes is Ctrl-L, ‘gmt’, and Enter.
This is an amazingly convenient, time-saving feature. Especially since I have a half-dozen or so bookmarklets that I frequently use (posting to my three blogs, adding links to those blogs, GMail, Del.icio.us). Using the mouse for these bookmarklets is nowhere near as slick nor speedy as typing Ctrl-L, agt, [ENTER].
Flash Player 9.0 for Linux getting closer
Posted by Biffster in Debian/Linux, Web on August 27th, 2006
…or at least Penguin.SWF, Adobe’s official blog for the Linux Flash player would have us believe so:
That I’m saying here is that we are having a lot of success at the high level– general functionality with major, popular, Flash-based sites. What we are turning our attention to now is to make sure all of the fine details and specific features are 100% correct. We have a gargantuan number of internal tests to validate that every little part of the Flash Player works correctly.
All I can say is: it’s about friggin’ time! I mean, it was awesome of Macromedia to release Flash Player 7.0 and earlier version for Linux. But since then, there’s been nothing. And we are noticing it big time, first in YouTube videos that continually get audio and video out-of-sync, then in not being able to view Flash content designed for Flash 9. Our patience grows thin, Adobe. It’s time for you to throw us Linux users some type of bone, even if it is just a beta version of Flash Player 9.0.
links for 2006-08-27
Posted by delicious in Miscellany on August 26th, 2006
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I am pretty sure I’ll be coming back to this one.
FreeEnigma – webmail encryption extension for Firefox
Big thanks to to iSpider.pl for pointing me towards FreeEnigma, a Firefox extension which can encrypt/decrypt webmail messages on the fly:
FreeEnigma brings cryptography to webmail, with an ingenious set of free and open browser plug-ins that work with Yahoo, Gmail, and others. The plugins implement a version of GPG (the free/open version of Pretty Good Privacy) and scramble and de-scramble the text in your webmail before you send it and after you receive it, reducing the amount of information that webmail providers have on your communications.
Those who know me know that I am a big proponent of encryption. My reasons are mainly philosophical. Email is normally sent in plain-text, which means anyone between the sender and the recipient can read that email. Add in the fact that our current administration seems to truly believe it is legal to snoop on all communication within and without this country, and you have the possibility for a very bad situation. Encrypting email might make using email a little more difficult, but it is worth it to help enhance one’s privacy.
FreeEnigma is currently doing a roll-out by invitiation. If you are interested, you can sign up for an invite on their website.
links for 2006-08-26
Posted by delicious in Miscellany on August 25th, 2006
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Some interesting extensions for Thunderbird. The interesting difference between Thunderbird and Firefox is that many of Firefox’s extensions are critical, while Thunderbird’s extensions tend to add features that are nice, but don’t really enhance email mu(tags: thunderbird extensions)
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This article should probably be called “10 utilities to install in Ubuntu.” It’s a good list, but many of the apps are Gnome-centric. True, since plain Ubuntu is Gnome-centric this probably makes sense, but it still annoys me just a little.
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This article is actually about tips and tweaks for Ubuntu. Some more good stuff here.
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Another primer for bash scripting. I really need to write more of my own scripts, but I get lazy. And it’s much more fun to surf the web than to write a script.
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Here’s a good idea: writing using vim! I’ve actually written a short-story using vim, and the author of this article has some good points. There are no distractions in vim. it’s easy to get lost in what you’re writing. And that’s a GOOD thing.
links for 2006-08-24
Posted by delicious in Miscellany on August 23rd, 2006
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If this works, it is free tv over internet. Good stuff?
links for 2006-08-22
Posted by delicious in Miscellany on August 21st, 2006
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MMmmmmmm! Cookie Monster loves cookies, ‘specially in PHP. COOKIES!!!!
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