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SQT: Access Flickr in UAE, Iran, China

September 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Saturday Quick Tip logoIf you are in Iran, UAE, Saudi Arabia, China and any other country that bans access to photo sites like Yahoo’s Flickr you will know the frustration of not being able to see other people’s holiday snaps. In steps, Access…

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Colorize Facebook Using Your Face

September 8th, 2008 · No Comments

facebook-colorTo continue the recent Greasemonkey theme, here’s a neat userscript that colorizes Facebook in your browser window by extracting a color scheme from the profile photo of the page you’re viewing.

So, each of your friends gets their own great custom color scheme,…

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Uninstalling Firefox Add-ons

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Firefox logoSome time ago, I offered a few reasons why you should remove Firefox add-ons to improve your browser’s security, but what I didn’t do in that particular post was go into details on how you should remove those add-ons, also known…

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Awesome Firefox 3 Improvements

June 30th, 2008 · No Comments

Firefox logoNow that you’ve upgraded Firefox to version 3, you’re probably wondering what all the fuss was about, well Mozilla itself, as you’d perhaps expect, has a nice round-up of the new features. But, fellow bloggers have highlighted dozens of features…

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Upgrading Firefox to Version 3

June 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Firefox logoLast week’s record-breaking flurry of activity over at Mozilla brought me up short, I am surely missing out if I don’t upgrade my version 2 Firefox browser to the all-singing, all-dancing version 3. But, what about my bookmarks, and profile,…

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