You may have caught glimpses in the news about a Firefox add-on called FireSheep but you may or may not know of its capabilities and the implications it will have upon your interactions online. In a nuthsell, this add-on allows a user to see the social network activities that are taking place on an unsecured …
Category: Firefox
Nov 02 2010
Learn How to Make App Tabs in Your Browser
Just a quick tip for this evening. With Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 6 and also Google Chrome you have the ability to create an “app tab” (in Firefox speak) or a “pinned tab” (in Chrome speak). Basically, these are like sticky tabs that persist between browser sessions (i.e. when you close and reopen them) and …
Oct 13 2010
Keep Your Firefox Plugins Secure
Regular readers would know that I like to keep my computers fully patched to help prevent against nasty things from getting into them and that I also encourage others to do the same since one compromised computer can cause problems for many other people. One thing that can be overlooked is the humble browser plugin …
Sep 29 2010
Xmarks Shutting Down in Early 2011
Back in June, I blogged about a great piece of software called Xmarks (previously known as Foxmarks when it was originally written as a plug-in for Firefox). In a nutshell, it allowed you to sync your bookmarks and your website credentials up to the cloud (over a secureand encrypted connection) and then sync them down …
Sep 09 2010
Google Unveils Instant Live Search
We all know that Google has been interested in developing new products and capabilities and, by the same token, willing to cull products when they haven’t hit the mark. Google Instant is a new feature augmenting its popular search. Basically, it allows you to see your search results as your are typing your keywords and …
Sep 08 2010
Software Updates Galore!
You could be forgiven for thinking that your computer is one an all out assault with software updates now available for a number of major pieces of software. First up is iTunes 10 which supersedes the prior version and offers some questionably useful functionality with its built in “ping” social networking abilities. One thing to bear in …
Jul 17 2010
Firefox 4 Beta 1 – First Look
Firefox 4.0 has been a long time and for those who might not have been following its development could probably be forgiven for thinking that things have gone into a bit of a holding pattern recently. Thankfully, a beta release has emerged from Mozilla and I’ve taken a quick look at it. What you will …
Jun 13 2010
RSS – Push vs Pull
For those of you who don’t know, RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication and a lot of you would be using it, perhaps unknowingly. How so? RSS is a major part of how iTunes works particularly when checking for new podcasts and the update features contained within other pieces of software use RSS to check …
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