23 Mar
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
This is a pretty handy tool for those who love to make money from buying (hoarding) and selling domains. A lot of people are really into the business that most of the good names are taken. But many prospectors are still rewarded by their efforts.Say you’re browsing and suddenly a string of letters or words [...]
29 Feb
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
One funny thing I’ve seen while attending a corporate presentation is have one guy try to access a website typing a few letters and have the address bar history refer him to the porn sites he had visited. Imagine the embarrassment of that guy and the crazy looks everyone had. But whether it’s hiding traces [...]
19 Feb
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
10 Feb
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
I have to admit that it took me a while to install Greasemonkey with my Firefox just because I like to keep things simple. I’m a minimalist of sorts. Still, finally getting around installing opened new doors for me and installing a few scripts streamlined my browsing experience a bit more.
And I know there are [...]
07 Feb
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web, Windows Tips
So our favorite browser is quite the memory hog and, as I’ve been told, it loads quite slowly too compared to Opera and even Internet Explorer (a travesty!). And it’s quite true. Even with Windows Vista prefetch, a dual-core processor and a couple gigs of RAM, it still takes quite a while to load.
Apparently, it’s [...]
06 Feb
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
I have had my beef with Wikipedia being used as a source for academic work but I can’t deny it’s usefulness for quick and dirty information gathering. But with the 2,209,000+ articles, browsing through the pages can be tedious chore. Unless, of course, you get a sneak peak of what lies behind a link.
Well, I [...]
30 Jan
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
We’re inching closer and closer to the release of our favorite browser and we’re expecting Beta 3 to be released soon. Mozilla has just frozen the code for Beta 3 but indicated that there might yet be a Beta 3.1 before they move on to giving us the Release Candidate versions.
One great feature they’ve included [...]
24 Jan
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
A few weeks back, we featured Bugmenot, a site that offers free use of usernames and passwords for free-to-register sites. It offers quite the convenience especially for those who just need to visit a site once and that’s about it.
Figures that they now have a Firefox extension to boot. What it does is that it [...]
14 Jan
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
I love TinyURL. While you don’t see me using them generated links here. I use them quite often in my other blogs. Posting links in Twitter is probably the most practical use I have for it save for the obvious trimming of thousand-character long URLs. But as a security cushion, wouldn’t you want to know [...]
09 Jan
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
It’s a good thing Mitch over at Firefox Facts followed up on a previous post on launching Firefox tabs through the command line because that led me to more command line arguments from the Mozilla site. Here are some of my picks from the long list:
Start Firefox in Safe Mode: firefox.exe -safe-mode
Open the Firefox profile [...]
07 Jan
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
“Rise up. Help others download a more interesting life.” How’s that for Firefox’s campaign to make people download and use the browser. And Mozilla seems to be going all out in this one complete with a website, an anthem and crazy stats on Firefox users like:
* 123% more likely to be [...]
07 Jan
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web, Windows Tips
Since we’re all waiting for the big release of Firefox 3, here are some more neat tricks you can do with Firefox. Here’s one for the keyboard ninjas out there who would want a faster way to launch Firefox with sites in tabs. You can simply do this via the Run command in Windows.
Access the [...]
As a blogger, I have to deal with hyperlinks and link texts everytime. I even seldom use WordPress’ visual editor. The code editor just gives me a lot more control. While this functionality doesn’t have anything to do with the visual editor, it is such a pain to have to rewrite link texts and manually [...]
21 Dec
Posted by Alex as Computers, Firefox Tips, The Web
A really quickie quick tip here. Probably it’s me just playing catch-up to all those great Firefox extensions that we’ve failed to feature just before Mozilla unleashes version 3 of our favorite browser.
Basic functionality with this one and quite sadly a unitasker. But what a useful unitasker this is. Ever had to restart Firefox? That [...]
Let’s all sing that Avenue Q song, “The Internet is for P*rn.” (Self-censorship sucks. But I have to. Lest we incur Google’s wrath once again.)
Now, I’m sure that for some of you out there, you just can’t resist surfing for the “good stuff.” But if you’re using the family computer, then you must be [...]