Listing Available Windows Hotkeys
Windows hotkeys or keyboard shortcuts are extremely useful which is why it is odd that Microsoft does not provide a mechanism to list the active keys. Hotkeys are generally global across the operating system and as such, are registered within Windows itself. If you wished to add your own shortcuts how would you know which [...]
Never Lose Your Form Data in Firefox Again
If you’ve been an Internet user for more than a couple months you’ve probably experienced the following scenario. You’ve just completed a long web form and click Submit to post the data back to the website only to find out the submission couldn’t be completed. Sometimes the web server in question is experience problems, sometimes [...]
Automatically Select Video Quality on Youtube
In the beginning, Youtube allowed users to upload their videos in a resolution of 320×240, a rather low res even at the time. It wasn’t long before a new video quality was introduced – high quality at a resolution of 480×360. Most recently, Youtube has begun offering 720p content, otherwise known as HD quality. With [...]
Automatically Refresh Any Website Every Few Seconds
Visit a website with any regularity that is continually providing updated information yet forces you to reload the page to get the new content? For the longest time most Sports websites would require you to refresh the page to retrieve the latest scores. The popularity of AJAX from a few years back allowed many of [...]
Delete Firefox Browsing History Selectively by Site
The three major browsers out there – Firefox, Chrome, and IE – all include functionality that allows for private browsing sessions. While each browser likes to put their own name on the feature the idea remains the same, websites and any related data collected in a private session is deleted and removed from the computer [...]
Disabling Firefox 3.5’s New Geolocation Feature
Location-aware browsing has taken the world by storm; mainly from the creative uses of the technology in Apple’s iPhone. As a result, many other handset manufacturers have jumped on the bandwagon with their own iterations. For the unaware, location-aware browsing allows me to locate all coffee shops with free WiFi, ordered by distance away from [...]
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How many computers do you have in your home office? If you are like many it’s more than one – each with it’s own keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Going about your day involves propelling yourself from one desk so your chair wheels across the floor to the other work area. A pretty low-tech approach don’t [...]
If you’ve ever spent some time and effort to configure Linux to serve files and printers to other computers on your network, you’ll know there are millions of howtos and write-ups to get you going. The bad news, here is yet another one. The good news, I’ve cut out the fluff and removed the verbose [...]
Bits & Bytes
- Brendon Wilson has a fantastic write-up concerning the ramifications of Bill C-61, which has been tabled in the Canadian Parliament. This a topic that I hope will be hotly contested and all Canadians are encouraged to write their MPs to present their feelings. Brendon provides a rational fact based argument against the bill, which should [...] More
- Fresh off my participation in the 72h Podcast record set by KATG this past weekend, I’ll also be doing my part tomorrow for Firefox’s attempt at the Guiness Book entry for most downloads in a 24h period. More
- Caveat, I’m a huge fan of Metallica – even after getting booted from Napster by their representatives (ironically I own all their albums). Metallica held a listening party for a few journalists in London but was then taken back when they wrote about what they heard. As a result, management had the reviews yanked from [...] More
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