Archive for February, 2005

Stop Google’s AutoLink

Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Google’s latest brain-wave in its journey towards world domination, is a curious new feature in their latest toolbar called AutoLink.
If you can cast your memory back to 2001 you will remember the controversy surrounding Microsoft’s Smart Tags and the subsequent discussion over the adding of extra links your site without your knowledge. Well this is [...]

Remote Firefox Settings

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Hot on the heals of my Top 5 Firefox Extensions I Can’t Live Without, I have discovered another nifty way to make your Firefox settings more portable.
If you already use the highly-recommended Bookmarks Synchronizer Plugin, then you know the convenience of remote location of your bookmarks, and how handy it is to cart your settings [...]

Top 5 Firefox Extensions I Can’t Live Without

Saturday, February 19th, 2005

As I have mentioned on this site before, I am a Linux user. More specifically, I am a Slackware user and as such, it goes without saying that I am not an Internet Explorer user.
I have been using Firefox since its pre-Firebird, pre-Phoenix days of 2002. Nearly three years on, and with the browser “all [...]

Random Discoveries

Sunday, February 13th, 2005

Every once in a while I surprise myself with the discovery of something so simple it makes you think “Why didn’t I know this already? And why haven’t I been told?”
Along the same theme as the first time I learnt that you could tab upwards, I was watching an apple.com trailer today when completely by [...]

War of the Worlds

Tuesday, February 8th, 2005

… across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
These lines from the first paragraph of H.G. Wells’ book, “War of the [...]

Wordpress References Plugin

Friday, February 4th, 2005

Some of the Internet’s strongest attributes in my humble opinion, are the “Three F’s”™ : Freedom, Fluidity and FUD.
In my pursuit of the “Second F” - Fluidity, I have created a small wordpress plugin to allow easy referencing of ones source material. (Think bibliographies people!)