I couldn’t get to my own child abuse site at the airport the other day. I’m sure they use some sort of filtering software, and I’m sure that it’s the same filtering software used by various schools and libraries. So, while it not being available from the airport is only a minor inconvenience, a kid…
We’re off in the morning (A 5:30 flight, ugh!) for a long weekend of site-seeing, exploring, photographing and eating our way around Philadelphia, with a one-day side trip up to N.Y.C. Needless to say, my involvement in the blogosphere will be minimal until Weds. or so, but I’ll be sure to have details, and photos…
Over at LifeHack.org today I saw the extension that does what we’ve all wished we could do with our Firefox settings. “FEBE backs up your extensions, themes, and (optionally) your bookmarks, preferences and cookies.” Of course, along with backing them up, it also makes them all transferrable to another computer! Freaking awesome! Tags: FEBE, Firefox
This seems like a rather insecure way to remotely control your PC. Afterall, anyone can send emails to your gmail account with “keywords”. Unless you can use long, randomly-generated, sets of characters. Even then, if you really have a need to control your PC remotely, learn to use a VNC program. Tags: GmailRemoteCommand
Way back when, Linspire offered their OS for free for a limited time. I signed up for that, mostly in order to satisfy my curiousity. Eventually I got the ISO downloaded and tried to use it to build a virtual machine using VMWare Workstation. Unfortunately the install crashed. Since the install was kind of a…
I put the finishing touches on the Office Beta Notes blog tonight and have officially relaunched it. If you’re interested, there’s a separate RSS feed or you can subscribe to new posts by email. (BTW did you know you can subscribe to this blog by email as well?) Anyway, if you’re interested in discussing Office…