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Firefox Add-Ons

On June 15th, 2009 13:39 • In Tech • By Oliver
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Notepad entry (will be updated every once in a while). Some Add-Ons for Firefox that I use: Abduction – Helpful tool to create screen- or webshots. BetterPrivacy – Since the methods of datamining get better, one needs better defense. ColorZilla – A colorpicker, ’nuff said. DNS Prefetch – While Firefox 3.5 will do DNS prefetching [...]

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Bookmarklets

On June 9th, 2009 1:58 • In Tech • By Oliver
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So, to comply with a request, here’s a bit more about Bookmarklets (or Favelets, as they are called with an inferior browser). Bookmarklets allow you to execute small commands that interact with the current website (or a part of it). To be precise, they are just short (since bookmarks have a certain max size, depending [...]

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Yahoo Pipes

On June 11th, 2008 23:52 • In Tech • By Oliver
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For a net citizen like me, who wants to keep track of many sites, but has limited time (or is just lazy), the next best thing to sliced bread are RSS feeds. You don’t have to visit every site every other day to see if there’s something new posted. A program on your computer (your [...]

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How many URLs are there?

On February 4th, 2008 19:40 • In Tech • By Oliver
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I’ve been wondering… how many URLs are out there in the internet? Not just domain names, but real URLs, including files and parameters. Different protocols as well. I think those are quite a few. The thought occured to me while working on the concept of lonks. For the community edition I want to save URLs [...]

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