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Mac Tipp: Screen sharing
Screen sharing between Macs is very easy as long as they are located in the same local network. Once the are in different networks it gets a little more – no not complicated, it’s just not that obvious. Looking for … Continue reading
Cleaning up your browsers tab area
How many browser tabs do you work with on an average base. And how many of them stay open from the time you log on to your machine until you drag away yourself to get a break ? Too many … Continue reading
Taking (full) web page screenshots (Update 2)
If you are looking for a tool to create website screenshots have a look at the Firefox extension FireShot. Besides taking screenshots from the visible part of a web page it can also create images of the complete page, which … Continue reading
“Upgrading to an older, more familiar experience”
If you have been “upgrading” (from Vista to XP) lately you most certainly will have lots of fun watching this, this and this.
Installing Ubuntu is easy…
…however downloading a preinstalled VMWare image is easier. Hint: the password for the administrative user is “ubuntu”
Firefox: Focusing popup windows
If you find the code snippet: <body onload=”self.focus()”> not work in Firefox 2, this is not a bug. Firefox has an advanced Javascript option called “Raise or lower windows” which is deactivated by default. You may find this option under: … Continue reading
Firefox 2 for developers
The mozilla developer center has an article about new features for developers in Firefox 2. Among others it covers how to create a custom search plugin.
Firefox: Save session state
By default Firefox 2 recovers tabs and windows after a crash only. However you can tell it to always “Show my windows and tabs from last time”: PS: Applies to Firefox 2 which is the current version as of this … Continue reading
Firefox: Open search box results in new tab
After updating to Firefox 2 I decided to try to get rid of some extensions, which I don’t really use. One of them was an extension for tabbed browsing which is now supported by Firefox to full extent. To open … Continue reading
Windows Vista Ready Applications with Delphi
Nathanial Woolls created a great tutorial showing how to adjust Delphi applications to the Windows Vista UI interface guidelines. The user experience changes in Windows Vista, while major, are not as breaking as those found with Windows XP. […] With … Continue reading
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