Archive for November, 2006
mouseless bliss !
Lifehacker has a collection of cool articles describing how to achieve absolute (well, almost…) mouseless computing bliss – an absolute lifesaver for a geek.
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Navigation from the toolbar
The address bar shortcut should be as instinctual as breathing by now, but there’s a few more shortcuts to that top bar that you should keep in mind.
Select [...]
windows vista wallpapers
Posted by theGeek in wallpapers on November 28th, 2006
Some Stunning Vista Wallpapers : here, here and here.
a major security flaw in firefox2
Mozilla’s Firefox 2.0 has long been considered a safer Web browser than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, but a new flaw in the Firefox Password Manager, which lets users store usernames and passwords for trusted Web sites, could let hackers steal their login data.
The problem, known as a reverse cross-site request, or RCSR, appears on blogs, message [...]
Fool the Keyloggers !
You are uberGeek…and you knew this trick…didn’t you ? Anyway, Private university Carnegie Mellon has written up an interesting [read...OLD and OBVIOUS] method for keeping your passwords safe from keyloggers at public computers. Read the PDF.
Download Google Screensaver without installing Google Pack
This is short guide to download and install the Google Pack Screensaver without downloading any of the other software in Google Pack or the even the Google Updater software. The Google screensaver will be installed without the Google Logo.
The Google Screensaver is probably the best piece of software in the entire Google Pack. The screensaver [...]
F3: a whole new take on scripting
If you like scripting, you should take a look at Chris Oliver’s weblog. He mostly discusses a scripting language that he’s been working on called F3. It’s mind-bendingly cool. It’s a client-side scripting engine, rather than one of the usual server-side languages. It’s designed for doing very graphically cool applications. He’s got [...]
Adding Google sitemap to blogger.com blog account
You can now add Google sitemap to your blogger.com account and increase your chances of being indexed in Google search engine result. You can add a Sitemap to your account to give Google more information about the pages in your site to help Google crawl them more effectively.
Step # 1: Login [...]
watch GoogleTalk.
We all know that Google is full of geeks. Google TechTalks are “regularly scheduled presentations offered by Googlers or our guests on a wide variety of subjects.” And when they say wide variety, they’re not kidding: I found presentations ranging from the video above titled “Human Computation” to “Zero Configuration networking with Bonjour.”…go Geeks !
Find out who gives away your email address with Gmail trick. – uberGeek
When you give your email address to a website, you hope that they don’t sell or trade your address to a bunch of spammers. Well if they do, here is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for what particular piece of email. This requires you have a Gmail account.
If your Gmail login [...]
showdown : phishing net !
Both FF2 and IE7 boasts of improved phishing protection. But which does the job better ?In the SmartWare test, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 blocked 690 known phishing sites, or 66.35 percent of the total. In contrast, Firefox blocked 78.85 percent when using a local antiphishing database and 81.54 percent when using the online database.
uberGeekFactor [...]