Category Archives: Software

Google Docs: Share Outside My Organization (solved)

Posted on February 1, 2012 by W

If you’re facing the problem with Google Docs where the “Users can share documents outside this domain” option doesn’t work, or the following issues, see the solution below on how to fix this. These are the problems reported by others … Continue reading →

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Google Search Lucky

Posted on January 23, 2012 by W

Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google Chrome Do you want to use Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google Chrome? It’s easy using the custom search engines. In Google Chrome click the wrench icon and then choose prferences next … Continue reading →

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Make YSlow work with Firefox 9.0

Posted on January 22, 2012 by W

YSlow won’t work with Fire Fox 9 because it requires Firebug to work. And the latest versions of Firebug, 1.8, 1.9, and 1.10, do not work with YSlow. Until Yahoo gets around to updating their plugin, use this method to … Continue reading →

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Setting Nagios host check frequency and Nagios default check interval

Posted on January 22, 2012 by W

With nagios (nagios3), the normal check interval is set to 5 minutes, and the retry is set to 1 minute. If your services are not that critical, you can increase the default check interval, perhaps from five minutes (or 600 … Continue reading →

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Use Google Chrome as a Screensaver

Posted on January 12, 2012 by W

You can use Google Chrome‘s –kiosk mode to create a full-screen screensaver of sorts. This might be good if you have a webpage or intranet page you’d like to display. Here’s how I did it for a windows computer: Create … Continue reading →

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A Boy Once Lived – RTF Icon Text

Posted on October 12, 2011 by W

You may have noticed if you closely zoom in to the icon for rich text files on a mac, actually the rtf.icns file located inside the TextEdit.app resources folder, you’ll see a picture and a story – some of which … Continue reading →

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Download Firefox 6.0.2.dmg for Mac

Posted on October 12, 2011 by W

Mozilla recently removed the option to download Firefox 6.0.2.dmg for Mac from their website. I have the German version but am looking for the english version. Do you have it?

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MD5 and Shal1 hash list for Firefox 6.0.2

Posted on October 12, 2011 by W

Firefox used to have the MD5 and Shal1 hashes available on their 6.0.2 downloads page but they have since removed all traces of that page. It is still showing up in Google’s Cache and so I grabbed a copy of … Continue reading →

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Diff previous versions with Dropbox and Google Chrome

Posted on September 18, 2011 by W

While Dropbox does an excellent job of keeping track of versions of files, it doesn’t make it easy to compare the different versions – until now. DropboxDiff, a Google Chrome extension by Victor Shih, does an amazing job of allowing you to … Continue reading →

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Source Viewer Tab for Firefox 6

Posted on September 16, 2011 by W

Using Firefox 6 and need to view page source in a tab? The Source Viewer Tab extension on the Mozilla Addons page does not work for Firefox 6 currently, but you can download and install the latest version of the … Continue reading →

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