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Personalize Your Flickr Replies

Personalize Your Flickr Replies

Serious Flickr users who regularly respond to multiple comments on their photos might be looking for something a little more personal and functional than the de facto @username: convention for specific replies. For this specialized task, Flickr user doc18’s Flickr Buddy Icon Reply Greasemonkey script might be just what such hardcore Flickerers are looking for: […]

Auto-Correct Typos in Your Address Bar

Auto-Correct Typos in Your Address Bar

Tired of typos in your URLs? URL Fixer is an extension for Firefox (and other Mozilla-based browsers, such as Flock) that fixes common mistakes in your address bar caused by careless keystrokes. For example, typing hackszine.con will redirect to hackszine.com. The current version: will correct common misspellings of .com, .net, .org, .edu, .gov, and .mil, […]

Use a Windows-only Printer on a Mac

Use a Windows-only Printer on a Mac

A few months ago, I accidentally purchased a printer that only had Windows drivers available for it. By the time I realized my mistake, I had already unpacked everything, which meant it could no longer be returned without incurring the heinous “restocking” penalty. Gutenprint to the rescue: Gutenprint, formerly named Gimp-Print, is a suite of […]

Access Gmail Behind a Firewall

Access Gmail Behind a Firewall

Without getting into the ethics of employers blocking access to certain sites on company machines (and without comment on the ethics of subverting those filters), if you need to access your personal Gmail account from an office that restricts access, engtech has a number of solutions for getting around the firewall. Check out the linked […]