Windows 7 finally introduced the ability to dock your separate applications into different portions of the screen. Since most of us haven’t adopted Windows 7 yet, AutoHotKey for Windows provides the same functionality now. As a web developer, I rarely work in an IDE, so I am constantly using AutoHotKey to control my windows, instead.
I took a script featured at LifeHacker, and modified it to suit my own needs. Specifically, I bound Windows+Down to resize the active window to be short and wide at the bottom of the screen.
So my ‘docks’ are:
Windows+Up: Full Screen
Windows+Left: The left half of the screen
Windows+Right: The right half of the screen
Windows+Down: A wide window in the bottom third of the screen.
My script also makes Windows+N open GVim, and makes Windows+G launch a Google search, because it’s just that awesome.
And here is my script: autohotkey ahk
We’re working hard at the University of Illinois to properly protect the sensitive data that our students, faculty, and staff store on our computer systems. Creating Firefly was part of that effort.
Firefly has been used to scan more than 7,000 computers on campus. In those runs, Firefly has scanned more than 89 million files and identified just under 2 million files that may contain sensitive data.
Firefly is a Windows program that installs seamlessly and produces a report of potential sensitive information on your computer. It also sends non-sensitive statistical data to our server so that we can try to measure the size of the problem, and how much Firefly is helping.
Finding sensitive information is like trying to find several million needles scattered in haystacks the size of the entire state. A lot of terrific people in the public sector and private sector are working on the problem. It has been my privilege to create and contribute Firefly to the effort.
I tried the alpha version of Fennec, the mobile phone version of Firefox.
I am absolutely thrilled to see that Fennec includes basic browser security from the first pass.
As you may remember, I don’t use Google Chrome yet; because it lacks basic security features like the ability to selectively enable scripts for trusted pages, and the ability to disable untrusted embedded objects.
Fennec has all of these in the alpha version. Their page says they’re looking for feedback. My feedback is “Nice work folks!”.
PS I hope that the mouse gesture tool-bars will be added to Firefox soon.