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Have Some Privacy with the Firefox Referrer Control
Every visit of yours to every website includes a whole whack of extraneous information. Most of us are aware that our IP address is one of those bits if information. As a webmaster, that information is handy but the more useful information is the referrer. The referrer variable is actually the URL or website that [...]
Circumvent the Age Verification on Youtube
I’ve never quite grasped the age verification systems that some websites use. If you aren’t sure what I’m talking about, upon the first visit to certain websites there is drop-down box that you must key in your birth date and year in order to verify that you are of a certain age. Clearly, it is [...]
Launch Google Search Results by Keyboard
I’m a keyboarder at heart, those that read the site already know that. For me, it’s just a more efficient manner to interact with the computer. If I’m typing away at something but then have to lift my hands off the keyboard to use the mouse, it just breaks the flow. I’ve written in the [...]
Peer Inside Archive Files Without Downloading them First in Firefox
Have you ever needed just one file that was packaged in one large large archive file on a FTP or Web server? It’s a pretty specific situation I realize, but for those of us who’ve come across this scenario it can be somewhat frustrating as you must download the entire archive file, ie ZIP file. [...]
Open in Google Chrome from within Firefox
By now you’ve probably heard about Google Chrome, the recently released open source browser from Google. Currently in beta and based around the Webkit rendered of Apple Safari fame, Chrome’s main offering to the table for most is the supercharged javascript interpreter. As Google continues its foray into web applications - think Gmail and Google [...]
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