Web/Tech – Page 21 – Five Acres with a View

PHP Help

PHP Help provides scripts and tutorials for those interested in learning PHP.

Firefox Help: Keyboard Shortcuts

Firefox Help: Keyboard Shortcuts gives a keyboard shortcut cross reference between Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera.

Google Features

Google Web Search Features is a quick reference to some of the more unusual Google web search features.

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.