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Make Your Searches More Social With Wajam
17 Jun 2011 by Scott Nesbitt / 1 Comment
How do you find out about things? I’m talking about things like interesting places to visit while on vacation, a good place to eat, whether or not a particular bicycle seat is worth buying. Well, that and more. Chances are you take one of two routes. One, you turn to your favorite search engine. Or two, you ask a friend or someone in your social network a question or three. What if you were ...
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Firefox Tip: How to Prevent JavaScript Code from Resizing Your Browser Window
04 Aug 2010 by Evan Wondrasek
Have you ever been browsing the internet, opened a new link, and suddenly had your entire browser window change size? This is a trick that web developers can easily do with JavaScript (and was heavily used in the “older” days of the internet) but has become a nuisance in modern times. If I’ve got a pile of tabs open, I don’t like my newly-opened tab kicking my browser...
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Gather Information About Your Client’s PC with Support Details
07 Apr 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 1 Comment
Building websites that function properly across multiple browsers can be a time consuming process. Most of that time is put into backwards compatibility to support outdated web browsers – I’m looking at you, IE6. If a client or end-user of your website is experiencing a problem, it can be a difficult task to ask all of the questions necessary to pinpoint the cause of the problem. Sup...
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Opera Web Browser: Fighting Back With Version 10.50
02 Mar 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 2 Comments
Many people are aware of the instant popularity of the Google Chrome web browser, taking just over 3% of the browser market share upon its release. Opera, a competitor in the web browser market since 1996, has only achieved a 2% market share in the past 14 years. The Opera developers aim to get back into the web browser market with the 10.50 release of the Opera web browser. The Opera 10.50 we...
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Essential Add-ons for Firefox #1: Power User Edition
13 Aug 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 8 Comments
One of the most useful features of Firefox are add-ons, small applications that can add new functionality to the browser or change its appearance. Unfortunately, there are literally thousands of add-ons available, meaning that many of the good ones get lost in the noise. In part one of our featured Essential Add-ons for Firefox series, I’ll be covering add-ons that I feel are vital to gett...
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Browse Safer: Expand Shortened URLs
12 Aug 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 1 Comment
URL shorteners are everywhere, and have exploded in popularity with sites like Twitter that have a character limit per message. While URL shortening services provide a great way to share links quickly with friends – there is also a significant security risk of being sent to a malicious website. For example, check out this great link: http://is.gd/2dPpA. This risk can be mitigated by usin...
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Fix: Firefox Won’t Save Cookies or Auto-Logins
02 Jun 2009 by Evan Wondrasek / 10 Comments
Update 06-16-09: Mozilla has announced in Firefox 3.0.11 that “Several issues were reported with the internal database, SQLite, which have now been fixed by upgrading to a newer version.” So if this guide works for you, be sure to upgrade to the newest version of Firefox. It can strike when you least expect it – Firefox amnesia. The symptom: Firefox no longer keep...
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Files Over Miles: Browser to Browser File Sharing
29 May 2009 by Dustin Patterson
A newly launched service allows you to send files (large files included) directly from your web browser to another web browser. Files Over Miles is a service that is built upon the P2P file transfer capabilities that are included in Version 10 of Adobe Flash Player. With this P2P capability, the need for an intermediate server is eliminated, transferring the file directly from one web browser ...
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