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ie8 finally caught up

Did you see the puke commercial Microsoft has running to promote IE8? They pulled it already on their own site but it’s on Youtube now so it’s gonna stay out there for now. But the thing is that they are throwing some big bucks at it to promote their latest IE release which bring us [...]

#iranelection

I’ve been watching the internet concerning the Iranian elections lately and I have to say that the information being delivered over the net is far more interesting than what traditional media has to offer, plus it’s a lot faster too. A few things are quite interesting about this whole thing from an geek point of [...]

your website sucks in so many ways

Well, maybe not yours, but if it qualifies for the following rules, it does. So check em out. You can’t store my name. My name contains something called an umlaut which is used in Germanic languages like German (duh) and Dutch for instance. My name either turns up with a missing letter, or I get [...]

the right way to block evil website cookies

I posted about this back in 2004 (whooosh, where did the time go right?), but IMHO the best way to block out any evil cookies from ad agencies, tracking sites, or whoever is putting cookies on your machine, is to use a whitelist. With a whitelist you only allow a handful of sites to put [...]

secure online banking with firefox

When it comes to doing your banking business online I don’t like taking chances. If your Myspace account gets hacked, or someone posts dirty messages on your Twitter feed that can be annoying, but if someone manages to hack into your online banking account you enter a world of pain. Banking companies spend tons of [...]

windows non-admin recap

You probably heard about that fact that running Windows with an administrator account isn’t a good idea, even though that is the default setting. I tried not doing that on my main machine, but it turned out to be quite a pain in the digital butt. After a few weeks of having to fast-switch to [...]

getting gmail notifier to work over https

A while ago over at the GMail Blog they announced that from now on you could start using GMail more securely than ever. Awesome! All you have to do is follow the instructions on their blog post, and enable https mode for all your GMail actions in your options, ét voila, you where so much [...]