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Entries from October 2007

Prism for Web Apps

October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

I recently came across an endevor by Mozilla Labs called Prism.  Well it WAS named WebRunner but is now called Prism.  It basically allows you to package websites into single applications.  For example instead of opening a whole browser with Plug-ins, Bookmarks and the like to update your blog.  You create an application using Prism [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Websites

Hardening Your Wordpress Blog

October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

As I was going through my blog today I found that there was a interesting article on securing your Wordpress blog.  It was a bit on the light side in some ways as it was a critique of another article but it did give me some help in protecting my blog even more.  Take a [...]

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Web Development

Trick or Treating Safety

October 31st, 2007 · No Comments

Since it’s Halloween I wondered if the razor blades, needles and poison in candy stories and warnings were true. So I fired up my browser and headed off on the internet. What I found was a bit SPOOOOOKY!

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Tags: Children · Parenting

Don’t Trip on the web, Stumble Upon it!

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I have a series of website I visit EVERY day. Woot, Some news sites, a feed aggregator, stats, security logs etc. and I catch myself sinking into a rut of sites. While some I visit do refer me to a new site I usually just skim over. That’s where StumbleUpon comes [...]

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Tags: Search Engines · Websites

URL Shortcuts for OpenDNS

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Below is a list of shortcuts I used in OpenDNS to help speed things along I posted about creating shortcuts and wanted to share a few of the ones that I use.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Websites

Website previews

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

In many of my posts I have a little thumbnail of the website. Like the one to the right. I don’t actually screenshot and resize to get the thumbnail instead I use a free service that gives me the thumbnails for FREE.

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Tags: Tools and Utilities · Websites

Forced Saving

October 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Remember the old piggy banks that you had use a butter knife and jiggle or SMASH in order to get out the money? How you would try and remember how much is in there? I’ve tried to use the jar to hold my spare pocket change but with kids my jar usually [...]

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Tags: Home and Family · Saving Money