Firefox Help: Keyboard Shortcuts gives a keyboard shortcut cross reference between Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera.
Category: Web/Tech
Google Features
Google Web Search Features is a quick reference to some of the more unusual Google web search features.
SwitchProxy
When browsing with Firefox, I use Privoxy as a proxy to avoid annoying popups and other intrusive advertising. However, there are some sites where privoxy interferes with the correct operation of the site, and it was a pain to have to drill down through Firefox’s menus to turn off the proxy.
SwitchProxy is an extension for Mozilla and Firefox that puts an additional toolbar on the browser so that one can switch between proxies or have no proxies at all. It also allows one to use a proxy that works as an anonymizer while browsing.
Mayang’s Free Textures
Mayang’s Free Textures has a variety of architectural, manmade and natural textures. (via “J-Walk”:http://j-walkblog.com/blog/)
Testing Your Browser’s Java
Ever wonder if Java is working on your browser? Sun provides a Test for Java Virtual Machine
Wallpaper
Saturday I became bored with my desktop wallpaper (which was one of my own photographs) and went surfing for something new. I found the site “Visual Paradox”:http://visualparadox.com/gallery.htm via “Google”:http://www.google.com. This site has a variety of images for wallpaper in various sizes, including a nice selection of alien landscapes. I saved several for future use, and my desktop now looks like the following:
BrowserSpy
BrowserSpy can tell you all kinds of detailed information about you and your browser. Stuff like the version of your browser. What kind of things it supports and what it doesn’t support.
This site shows a lot more than sites I have seen before that tell about the browser and the operating system. (via “J-Walk”:http://j-walkblog.com/blog/)
Official US Time
NIST maintains a site that gives the official U.S. time using a Java application. It looks as there are some other interesting exhibits on this site as well. For some reason I haven’t investigated yet, my computer is not synching correctly to a network time server, so I decided to find an online clock.
Googling Elaine
After I read Simon Willison: The dangers of PageRank, I googled my own first name, Elaine. I was astonished to see that my name came up eighth on the first page of results, since my name is not that unusual. Nor is Five Acres a popular weblog. Very odd.
Missing Entries
Yesterday evening, I got home to find out that the entries I made in the morning were not showing up on my website. (Yes, I check my own weblog: doesn’t everyone?) My service provider had moved my files to a new server, and things got out of sync. Fortunately, I was able to log into the old server, save the MySql database backup to my PC, then apply the backup to the new server. Now I know that the MySql backups will work. I had always been reluctant to test since I only have the one live database with which to experiment.
If anyone noticed the now you see it, now you don’t
on my website yesterday, this was the reason.