Security Engineering – The Book – Is Now Online

Just a quick post to let you guys know that Ross Anderson, famous author of “Security Engineering”, has just made his book available online for free. “Security Engineering” is one of the best computer security books available out there, so if you want to learn more about this subject, do yourself a favor and go [...]

PodZinger: search podcast content from Mozilla search bar

PodZinger is a search engine that lets you search for words and phrases within podcasts and videocasts. Yes, within the actual audio. And now there’s a plug-in available that adds PodZinger to the Mozilla search toolbar.
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PodZinger: search podcast content from Mozilla search bar
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Walkthrough: BitRocket – a killer new Mac OS X BitTorrent client

Dan Lurie over at TUAW found a review of BitTorrent clients for Mac OS X a few days ago. Apparently, this inspired Clone Software, Ltd. to stop guarding their secret and release BitRocket (which TUAW promptly found) – an OSS torrent client (in beta) for the Mac that indeed rockets past the competition (zing!).
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Encrypt with Truecrypt

Today we’ll go over a simple way to encrypt sensitive files on your hard disk, external hard disk, usb thumbdrive and CD. TrueCrypt is a free, open source encryption application that works on Windows and Linux. It creates a virtual hard drive in the form of a single file that will read and write encrypted [...]

How To: access built in OS X Dictionary and Thesaurus

OS X includes a system wide dictionary and thesaurus, many native OS X applications make use of this feature to provide instant spell checking. Users can also benefit from it by invoking the dictionary or thesaurus at any point.

Highlight the work in question

Press Command + Control + D (for dictionary or define)

To access [...]

Swiftfox – Optimized Firefox for Linux

Swiftfox is a new version of Firefox compiled and optimized for Linux. Swiftfox has builds for both AMD and Intel processors. The 1.5.0.6 release is based on Firefox 1.5.0.6.
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Swiftfox – Optimized Firefox for Linux
Originally from Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks by Scott

Customize Firefox with userChrome.css

Lifehacker: Edits to your Firefox profile’s userChrome.css file can make all sorts of fun and useful changes to the fox’s chrome, menus, dialogs and toolbars.
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Customize Firefox with userChrome.css
Originally from Firefox Help, Tips and Tricks by Scott

How to compact your firefox bookmarks tab

The length of the bookmarks tab in firefox has been bothering me for a while. It is equal to the length of the largest entry which could mean that it could quickly clutter your interface when you have some sort of subfolder system that I use. One method to overcome this would be to strip [...]