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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Bad Apple!

Bad Apple! No Download! Apple iTunes keeps trying to install Safari.

Just to clarify, Safari is great. I’m a bit of a fan of it; but I take issue with the way Apple Software Updater behaves.

I do appreciate Apple’s response to our concerns. Many thanks to the folks at StopBadware.org for hosting discussion and formalizing a petition to send to Apple.

Front Door, NoScript, Web of Trust, Common Sense

At the top of your Firefox window, click on the ‘Tools’ menu. Now select ‘Add-ons’.

Your window should look a bit like mine, in the screenshot above.

This is really important – it is common sense. If you live without a front door, or if you announce your credit card number and security code in movie theaters, then you may ignore the rest of this post. The internet is great, but it does have users and websites who want to hijack your computer and steal your credit card numbers. It happens all the time to people just like you and me.

Need to save a picture of what is on your screen?

Most of my readers (myself) already know this; but I’m linking it anyhow because it’s a great set of instructions, and really good instructions are incredibly rare. How to take a screenshot.

Follow the link. Admire the instructions.

  • Edward