New Media + IT

This seems like the perfect Firefox extension for a tab freak like me: CromaTabs.
(Found via Linux.com)

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[ categorized as: Tips ]

Phil Bradley shows people how to search the MI5 website, although the MI5 search is currently not working.
Needless to say, he uses Google ;-)
PS: If the MI5 website uses a robots.txt to avoid the search robots crawling the web, I don't assume that the above tip will work…

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[ categorized as: Google, Search, Tips ]

This is a tip on a browser extension for the Firefox browser. You might be able to use it on Flock.
What the Scrollbar Anywhere extension does, is that it enables you to scroll a page simply by holding down your right mouse button.
Just press the right mouse button and and keep it down while you [...]

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[ categorized as: Browsers, Extensions, Software, Tips ]

I read about it somewhere a long time ago and used it for some time but then forgot about it again.
But just now I remembered it, and thought it was worth to be shared :-)
The search engine Searchmash.com is Google's online playground when it comes to search. It has a lot of AJAX (live page [...]

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[ categorized as: Google, Search, Tips ]

Windows comes with it's own Notepad, but that's just a basic notepad. If you want something a little bit more, I recommend Notepad++ which I have been using for some years now. It supports having multiple documents open at the same time, has a line counter and it supports syntax highlighting (in colors) and syntax [...]

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[ categorized as: Software, Tips ]

I'm working on my project right now, so unfortunately not a lot of time to blog. But still, instead of just letting the blog die completely I decided to share one of my favorite services with you.
It's the RIPE whois lookup service.
The service isn't always very good at looking up domains, but what it lacks [...]

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[ categorized as: Internet, Tips ]

The more advanced users of Mozillas mail application Thunderbird may already know them, but Thunderbird has some quite useful shortcut keys.
See the list of Thunderbird keyboard shortcuts.

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[ categorized as: E-mail, Software, Tips ]

After Rene's comment, to my previous post on this subject, saying that messing with individual WordPress files is a no-no, I installed the Unfancy Quote plugin, and it's working just as well.
Thanks René :-)
PS: And yes, the reason I wanted the curly quotes removed is because code often get messed up when copied from a [...]

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[ categorized as: CMS, Tips ]

This tip on how to remove curly quotes in WordPress also works in WordPress 2.0.5.

So if you, like me, don't like the curly quotes in WordPress, here's what you need to do.

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[ categorized as: CMS, Tips ]

I just ran my site through the W3 Validator and got some errors fixed.
I specifically noted, that whenever an URL/URI included an ampersand (&) the validator returned an error.
This is because, and I didn't now this until now, that ampersands has to be written in HTML code (&), even in URLs/URIs!
Just thought you'd might like [...]

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[ categorized as: Tips ]