So this morning I started looking into greasemonkey based on recommendations of a few friends. I found a few useful scripts and I think I may actually keep it around. I did actually take one script that seemed pretty limited and improved upon it. If you use greasemonkey you might want to check this out.… Read More »
You might remember a recent tutorial I did on securing VNC via SSH with the -via option of vncviewer. Today I started looking into it more with one of my students and we wanted to make the -via option use compression. By default it just creates a basic tunnel with SSH and doesn’t let you… Read More »
Due to the many requests for details that I’ve recieved concerning the Firefox extension bounty I wanted to take a minute and outline the details. It seems everyone thinks I’m being too secretive about the whole thing. I didn’t mean for that to be the case I was just being brief with my post. Here… Read More »
UPDATE: Jeremy pointed out that what I need is not a plugin but an extension (and there is a difference!). If that changes anyone’s mind just drop me a note. I’ve been sitting on the idea for a Firefox extension for a while now and I realize I just don’t have the time to do… Read More »
UPDATE: Install Opera 10 Web Browser in Ubuntu 9.10 I realize, in all of my posts, I’ve never outlined how to install the Opera browser. There are two methods you can use to install it, and both will be outlined below. Before I get into those steps though I have a few things to say… Read More »
UPDATE: Thanks to Daniel I have found a trunk build that offers the latest and greatest. I will now be using Flock again, just keeping up via the trunk until final release! I am stoked! There are some <napoleon>sweet</napoleon> new features that I’m sure a lot of people are going to enjoy! As many of… Read More »
I re-found something today that I had forgotten about. It outlines a couple of quick methods you can use to speed up the Firefox engine and make pages load more quickly for you. I set this up again this evening and see a noticeable speed increase. Here are five steps for speeding up your browser.… Read More »
I was reminded about the new up-and-coming browser called Flock. I’ve been using it this week at the office and I am enjoying it so far. It is still new in development but it is very stable and has a ton of “social” features. So far some of the things I’ve noticed: Faster than Firefox.… Read More »
In response to Doran’s post about foolin’ the robots I thought I’d share my strategy for the same. It seems to work pretty well & it can be customized to make it even more difficult for spam-hackers to foil. (disclaimer: I can’t take credit for making it up, just thought I’d share.) For my method… Read More »