YouTube (finally) put some profanity censoring in their text comment system after years of angry complaints from many, many users of the system. The moment this went into effect there were people right on top of this: Note the second comment above. Let it not be said that all YouTube "community members" are dumb. If you still want to see the...

There are many of us (myself included) who remember the days when dial-up was the only way to get online, and there were two types of ISPs, the Corporate and the Mom n’ Pop. A few examples from when I was living in Connecticut: The locals were NECAnet and Cyberzone. The corporates were SNET and TIAC. All of them cost about the same price per month. (As a...

A very, very old email tip to prevent nasty code executions from spam on email clients was to simply disable the preview pane altogether. But you have to remember back then that email clients were decidedly "dumb". Today they’re much smarter. For example, you can disable/enable the preview pane at whim in Mozilla Thunderbird just by pressing F8....

If you ever have the need to hide text from web crawling bots such as email gathering spam bots or search engine spiders, then putting your text in an image and posting the image is an effective method. Of course, this can be cumbersome for obvious reasons. Instead of doing this manually, check out Hide Text. Hidetext.net lets you convert text to an image. This...

If you like to take total control over your browsing session which means controlling individual cookies, then a Firefox add-on you need is CookieSafe. This extension will allow you to easily control cookie permissions. It will appear on your statusbar. Just click on the icon to allow, block, or temporarily allow the site to set cookies. You can also view or...

A couple of days ago, I posted about Piwik which is a Google Analytics alternative. These two gather information the same way: via javascript. While this is gives great insight into your visitors, it is not 100% reliable because of script blockers. Basically, if a visitor is running a script blocking utility (i.e. NoScript), unless the user has specifically set...

Every now and then we all have the need to send a fax. Whether it is for important [fill in the blank] forms with your signature or you simply need to send a ‘paper copy’ of something instantly, fax is still a standard for transferring documents. If you don’t have a fax machine and do not want to run out to your local Kinko’s, check out...

Some sites make it easy (more or less) to delete your account if you don’t feel like using it any longer. Others however make it exceedingly difficult. Recently I was going thru my password manager and realized there were a ton of accounts I simply didn’t use anymore, so I figured I’d get rid of them. Some I was successful with, while others.....

One of the more popular tools among people who run their own web sites is Google Analytics. Rightfully so as it is able to track just about anything you want. The only problem with Google Analytics is that you don’t own your own stats. Google keeps all the data on their servers and you access it through their portal. If you are looking to self host these...

Today’s tip will be a quick one as the much anticipated Firefox 3.5 is now available for download. This new version boasts a faster javascript engine, HTML 5 support, private browsing and overall faster performance. If you are interested you can read about all the changes here. Before upgrading, make sure all the add-ons you use are compatible with the new...