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Browser Toolbars Online Privacy - Toolbar Removal Tool The risk with website monitoring is that it's possible for query strings to be monitored and retransmitted. Query strings are data strings following the '?' delimiter in urls often used by webform submissions and search engines. Query strings may contain sensitive information such as credit card numbers, passwords, names, addresses, hotel/flight reservation details and other personally identifiable information which an unethical browser extension could monitor and retransmit to its home server or a third party. Firewalls won't block browser extensions because they're integrated into the web browser. Browser toolbars can sometimes be removed by using the Windows Add/Remove Programs utility or by running the toolbar's uninstaller which should be packaged with it.
Using Thunderbird to Get Things Done Update 2009-02-05: Now that I've been doing this for a few years, I've refined this tip and its subsequent updates into an article at eHow: How to use Thunderbird to get things done. In the past few months, I've been trying to apply some of the principles of David Allen's Getting Things Done to my own work habits. This article describes how I've been using a combination of Thunderbird's labels and saved searches to facilitate handling my email inbox in a GTD fashion. Aside: Although I'm doing this on a Mac, there's no reason it shouldn't work with Thunderbird on any OS, once you account for minor menu differences across platforms. vox delicii Who’s In The News? Data visualizations of Google’s massive news aggregator are an interesting way to graphically keep tabs on developing news stories. A view of the project’s time-based interface. Stamen’s In The News visualizer provided a visual reference for Google’s “In The News” sidebar, providing an archive of popular news items, links to headlines, and a method for comparing news item performance over time.
IP Calculator / IP Subnetting ipcalc takes an IP address and netmask and calculates the resulting broadcast, network, Cisco wildcard mask, and host range. By giving a second netmask, you can design subnets and supernets. It is also intended to be a teaching tool and presents the subnetting results as easy-to-understand binary values. Enter your netmask(s) in CIDR notation (/25) or dotted decimals (255.255.255.0). Inverse netmasks are recognized. If you omit the netmask ipcalc uses the default netmask for the class of your network.
Technique Hugo! says: I came across this post about faking the lomo effect on kottke.org the other day and found the results really pleasing. The tutorial is quite easy to follow and follows these simple steps: 1.File: Open: the picture you want 2.Image: Adjustments: Brightness/Contrast: increase contrast by 20 15 Online Tools That You Will Come To Love As A Tech I have compiled a list of 15 free online tools that will help you greatly as a tech. I’m sure that there are other good ones that I have left out so please feel free to post the ones that you like as well. IPTools offers a wide variety of online networking tools. With this site you can look up IP address information, check spam databases, run pings, run traceroutes, lookup WHOIS information and much more.
Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off Joshua Schachter used to be a lot like the rest of us online. When he surfed the Web, he'd zip through interesting articles only to find that days later he couldn't remember where he had seen the stories or sites that had caught his interest. Unlike most of us, though, the 30-year-old New Yorker is a software programmer -- so he did something about this lapse in memory. A little over two years ago, Schachter created a program that let him tag Web links using words he would remember and then store them for easy access.
Open Ports Tool Remote Address Port Number Check a port's status by entering an address and port number above. Micro Persuasion: Ten Technorati Hacks The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright archaic now but that’s how I learned about the press - by cutting, pasting up and photocopying clippings. My fascination with the media never abated. Today my role is to form insights into how the entire overlapped media landscape - the pros, social channels, and corporate content - is rapidly evolving and to help Edelman clients turn these learnings into actionable strategies.
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About the MusicBrainz tagging applications Overview The MusicBrainz Classic Tagger application allows you to automatically look up the tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags or Vorbis comment fields) to your files. As you tag the files in your collection that MusicBrainz didn't recognize, you submit the acoustic fingerprints (TRM IDs) of your files back to the server. Submitting acoustic fingerprints will allow MusicBrainz to automatically identify these tracks in the future, so that other people using the Tagger can benefit from the work you have done. Please note that the TRM server does not scale very well, and it has been superceded since 2006 with the MusicDNS PUID fingerprinting system; usable from our next-generation [[Picard Tagger]. As the community uses the Tagger application, more and more files will be automatically recognized.
Who Writes Wikipedia? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford. Wales told us about Wikipedia’s history, technology, and culture, but one thing he said stands out. “The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia,” he noted, “is that it’s some emergent phenomenon — the wisdom of mobs, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing — thousands and thousands of individual users each adding a little bit of content and out of this emerges a coherent body of work.”† But, he insisted, the truth was rather different: Wikipedia was actually written by “a community … a dedicated group of a few hundred volunteers” where “I know all of them and they all know each other”.