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Share your Outlook (Express) contacts with Thunderbird by matt

Now instead of going through the rigmaroll of exporting your Outlook contacts to something (not totally proprietary) that Thunderbird can read, just reveal this *hidden* feature which allows Thunderbird to read your Outlook contacts: from Chris Ilias' Blog Mozilla Thunderbird and SeaMonkey (and even the Mozilla Suite and Netscape 7) can actually be set up to use your Outlook Express address book, and/or your Outlook Contacts list. It's just another one of those features that are not in the user interface...
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Songbird review by matt

No, this isn't going to be _another_ carbon copy software review with bullshit comments and touchy-feely stuff. Ars Technica has already taken my thoughts and put them on the web in a much more succinct and precise way than I could have. Read their comments here . (...and it doesn't do DAAP.) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Phishing Filter for Firefox by matt

I just discovered that Google has a very nice phishing filter extension for Firefox. They call it the "Safe Browsing" extension, and you can get it here . One more reason not to use the fugly Internet Explorer 7. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Some Firefox tips by matt

If you've been using Firefox 1.5, you might have noticed it gets rather memory hungry after a while. I found a thread on Mozillazine that might help remedy this. Read here . According to the article above, using AdBlock and Firefox 1.5 is not a good idea. AdBlock is one of the primary reasons I use Firefox and I cannot surf without it blocking all those flashy ads on sites these days. So; Adblock Plus to the rescue. Get it here . And if that wasn't enough, check out Adblock Filterset.G Updater. It...
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Intel Macs could run XP, but.... by matt

If you've been following the MacWorld events you might have heard that Apple officially approves of customers loading Windows on their new hardware. There are however some limitations, as Paul Thurrott explains on WinInfo : One technical problem will require some thinking, at least for Windows XP users. The new Macs use a new type of BIOS named Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI), which Intel developed. This interface is currently incompatible with the 32-bit version of XP. However, it's likely that...
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Essential Firefox Extensions by matt

Since Firefox 1.5 was released last night, I thought I'd share with you some Firefox extensions I deem "essential": Fasterfox : Like it says in the description - Tweaks browsing performance. Adblock : Absolutely essential to keep all those annoying adverts out of the way. Mail me for a pre-compiled list of ad sites. Forecastfox : Get up-to-date weather in your browser. Tip: Setup multiple profiles to get other cities weather reports with one click. IE Tab : (Windows only) Finally get rid of that...
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? by matt

Charles Petzold : Abstract: Visual Studio can be one of the programmer's best friends, but over the years it has become increasingly pushy, domineering, and suffering from unsettling control issues. Should we just surrender to Visual Studio's insistence on writing our code for us? Or is Visual Studio sapping our programming intelligence rather than augmenting it? This talk dissects the code generated by Visual Studio; analyzes the appalling programming practices it perpetuates; rhapsodizes about...
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Anti-Virus - Going open by matt

Thanks for all your feedback, much appreciated. After evaluating: Bitdefender Pro Norton Internet Security 2005 PC-Cillin Internet Security 2005 My biggest peeve with all the above is that they are all huge, invasive monsters that are a dummy's cure to all things bad. I'm sure it's nice if you don't know diddly about viruses and spam, but I'm a power user and don't need that crap using all my CPU cycles. I've decided that lightweight and free is the way to go. I'm installing ClamAV now, based on...
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Anti-Virus by matt

Indulge me here... I've just reformatted my machine and I'm looking for a nice, shiny anti-virus application for my XP SP2 machine. I would prefer something that will be recognised by SP2's Security Centre it would be nice if it had a firewall built-in Mail scanning is a must as I receive stuff that doesn't get scanned at a server level It doesn't have to be free. (I don't mind paying for quality) Any recommendations? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live...
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Tweaking Firefox by matt

via Neowin Asa Dotzler clears up some myths about some popular methods of tweaking Firefox: “Yes, enabling HTTP pipelining can dramatically improve networking performance. The downside, and the reason it's not enabled by default, is that it can prevent Web pages from displaying correctly. If you've enabled this, and you find pages that aren't displaying correctly, please don't blame Firefox or the Web developer. It's probably the fact that you enabled an "unsupported" feature which is incompatible...
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A sad day... by matt

./ just reported that Nullsoft have closed their doors signalling the end of Winamp. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Passport and Firefox by matt

I just had to blog about this! I have just logged into a Microsoft Passport site using Firefox! I'm not sure if it is the 20041002 Nightly build I'm using or whether Microsoft have 'fixed' passport to support Firefox. Surprising nonetheless! Update: It looks like it might be Microsoft. They are offering a download for the File Transfer Manager on MSDN Subscriber Downloads for 'Netscape' users. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Enforcing Standards by matt

While looking for some information on Windows SAM database security, I stumbled onto this page. Now, if you've clicked that link with IE/Maxthon you'll be seeing this page. And if you clicked it using anything other than IE/Maxthon you'll be seeing this page. A bit over the top? Yeah, I think so. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Browser preference follow-up by matt

Thanks for all the interesting comments on my post about personal standards of browsers; it was interesting to see what you all thought. Some of you said that you would be trying Maxthon; so now I'm interested in your findings! Are you liking it; hating it or stil under consideration? I have, in the interim, tried Opera and am rather disappointed with it. I found it "clunky" to use and not all that ground-breaking. My primary browser is still Maxthon; however the Beta that I'm using (v. 1.0.0220...
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RSSBandit System.Net.HttpWebRequest errors by matt

I just installed the latest version of RSSBandit on my home PC and I could not download any feeds I had imported from my notebook. All my feeds were reporting the error : Refresh feed 'Feed\Some Feed failed with error: The type initializer for "System.Net.HttpWebRequest" threw an exception. I Googled and found this article on Dare's blog posted on Friday. [This is where it gets weird] However this post details that this error will happen if: you're running the .Net Framework 1.1 SP1 (I'm running...
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