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Firefox Getting A Ribbon

Welcome back!If you’re unfortunate enough to be stuck with Vista or Windows 7, your Firefox is going to be changing. According to this pcpro article, they’re going to add the Office 2007 style “ribbon” and change the settings so that the familiar menu is turned off by default.
I personally don’t see how this could [...]

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How To Fix Forms That Don't Allow AutoComplete

One of the features that I really appreciate about Firefox and other modern browsers is their password managers. They take a lot of hassle out of username & password entry fields, saving you the trouble of having to open and decrypt your “just in case” password file (you DO keep it encrypted, Right? If not, you should).

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UAC In Windows 7 Beta Open To Malware

So the Windows 7 Beta is now out “in the wild” and people are using it. Naturally, since it’s a Beta version, it’s practically guaranteed to have an assortment of bugs that need to be squashed before Microsoft releases the final version. Well, one of those bugs involves that wondrously annoying feature introduced in Vista, the UAC (User Account Control).

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How Do I Redirect If The Visitor Didn't Come From Paypal?

This seems to me like it *should* be a fairly simple thing but I’ve been fighting with it all freaking day and still haven’t found anything that works. I’ve got a page that sells a product with Paypal as the payment processor. Making the “Buy Now” button at Paypal merchant services is easy enough, I even remembered to input the success url that the customer needs to go to after payment is taken care of.

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MSDN Conference Attendees To Get Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD

Curious about the new version of Windows 7? Want to get an advance look at Microsoft’s newest version of Windows? Or perahps you’re just a little bit masochistic? In either case, it turns out that there is a way to get a copy of it.

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Program Can Alter Your Appearance For The Better

There’s a new program, the result of work by some researchers in Israel that can apparently alter an image of a face to make it appear more attractive.

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Where Is IPV6?

Aftrica is leading the world in the adoption of IPV6 addressing. I realize that African ISPs and networks aren’t exactly a dime a dozen, so they’ve got less to adapt and change. Plus the fact that because they’ve so much less established stuff there, they can adopt the new IPV6 ready equipment and software right from the start.

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Diebold Finally Admits It's Machines Drop Votes

 Powered by Max Banner Ads In an article on Engadget there is news that’s going to be cause for all voters to wonder.
Diebold has finally come clean, admitting that their voting machines have a flaw in them that’s been there for years and does in fact cause votes to get dropped. At the very [...]

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It's Official, Vista Is Pwned!

Windows Vista has been ‘pwned’ big time. A couple of researchers attacked Vista by using the way that Internet Explorer handles active scripting and .NET objects which results in effectively bypassing the memory protection safeguards in Vista.

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How To Forward A Domain To A New Location

So, You’ve finally decided to bite the bullet and get an actual domain for that website or blog that you’ve been running on a subdomain since forever. The biggest problem you’ve got now is that all of a sudden those inbound links you’ve been working your arse off to get are going to stop working.

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