How To Make Firefox Add-ons Work With Prism

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Finishing their job…

As anyone following my Twitter will know, I’m a massive fan of Google Chrome.  However, one imperative site for me doesn’t work with it – LogMeIn.

I’ve also become a massive fan of the new  Mozilla Prism beta, which basically allows you to turn webpages (such as LogMeIn) into applications. Prism is built on the same framework as Firefox 3, and theoretically add-ons should work on both.

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Beware The Name Squatters!

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What’s in a name?

Thanks to drowning-slowly

Thanks to drowning-slowly

Everyone’s aware of the importance of registering your company name as a domain – many people will decide on a company name based on what domains are available.

Unless you can prove you owned the copyright to a domain when it was registered by the low-life thieving scum that registered it first, there’s no recourse, as Richard X Thripp the creator of the brilliant Wordpress plugin Tweet This found when someone beat him to tweetthis.net, tweetthis.org, tweet-this.com, and tweet-this.net!

And now there’s hundreds of other web services that require an unique ID – a mini-domain if you like. Twitter and MySpace are the obvious ones (Facebook uses a random unique ID), but what’s next on the conveyor belt of Web 2.0 successes?  Tweba? Ning? Hi5? And these are going to be even harder to claim your company name back on.

So get on the ball now. Get your Twitter name as a start, and then check out namechk.com to see what else there is out there.

Beating Experts Exchange

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Your money or your answers…

It annoys me THIS much when I Google an error code, problem or question and do my usual open-the-first-ten-pages and end up with tab after tab of Experts Exchange pestering me for money. I was sure that a company that originally registered themselves as ExpertSexChange.com without realising couldn’t be that clever, so today I decided to beat them.

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Sending Large Files

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When e-mail doesn’t cut it anymore…

Thanks to -kol

Thanks to -kol

Imagine you’re sat in London.  Imagine you have a selection of large files to get to differing parts of the world.  A 50MB file to get to Aberdeen, a 250MB file to get to Los Angeles and a 1GB file to get to Melbourne. How do you go about it?

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Using FTP in Windows XP

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Once you have the following:

  • FTP server address
  • FTP username
  • FTP password

You can follow the steps below to access your web server in Microsoft Windows XP.

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Shift-ing Ctrl

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Controlling what you select…

Thanks to Speeeedy-stock

Thanks to Speeeedy-stock

A common question as I whizz around a keyboard infront of clients is “how did you do that” when I select multiple items and edit that selection in Windows. So here’s how:

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