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How To Use FireFox

July 29, 2007 · No Comments

Great article, print out and hand to your least favorite IE apologists so they can get a clue.

Categories: Applications · Browsers · Desktop · HOWTO · WebTerNet

Think You Know All About Online Scams? Take the Test.

July 26, 2007 · No Comments

Thankfully, I passed with flying colors.  See how you do, and then administer the test to the people in your life that apparently don’t understand the concept of “DON’T CLICK ON ANYTHING PROMISING A THING THATS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE”, and help educate them.

Categories: Browsers · Desktop · Humor · Security · Troubleshooting · WebTerNet · email

One Porn Site Per Child

July 22, 2007 · No Comments

We knew this would happen, the OLPC’s in some 3rd world countries are being used to freely and copiously view adult-oriented sites, according to some reports.

Time to fit them up with library filters, and start the lawsuits about free speech, oh, er, they don’t have our constitution, bill of rights or the amendments.  Never mind.

Categories: Applications · Browsers · Desktop · Humor · Op Ed

How to Find Things Outside of Google’s Reach

July 4, 2007 · No Comments

What to do when things you are searching for don’t show up in Google, but they do exist on the web.  This is called “dark-searching” or “extra-google” searching.

Categories: Applications · Browsers · HOWTO · The Social · WebTerNet

9 Things You Didn’t Know You Could do with Wikipedia

July 2, 2007 · No Comments

From Neomeme. I truly love the cartoon showing the typical research path…

Categories: Browsers · HOWTO · Media · RTFM · Reference · The Social · WebTerNet

PC World’s 100 Blogs We Love

June 28, 2007 · No Comments

Great list, I don’t see MY blog on it, though….

Categories: Browsers · Media · Reference · The Social · WebTerNet

Sync Your FFox Bookmarks and Extensions Across Computers!

June 27, 2007 · No Comments

Love this, especially the sync of extensions, extremely valuable for me with 4 computers to keep track of.

Categories: Applications · Browsers · Desktop · HOWTO

Want to Sync Browser Settings and Bookmarks?

June 25, 2007 · No Comments

I sure do, this article helps you get it working with Google Browser Sync.

Categories: Applications · Browsers · HOWTO