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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Docking Windows in Microsoft Windows

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. [...]

Firefly Sensitive Data Remediation

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 [...]

Firefox Mobile Thinks Security First

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. AsĀ  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, [...]