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Weird Tab Behavior in Firefox

Is this a bug? I was working on the TCF website, happily coding along, until I hit a snag: whenever I’d click on a link, it seems to be redirecting me back to the page I was on. Okay, I shortly realized I was mistaken: I was actually not moving at all, and just staying…Continue Reading…

Return of the ThinkPad Beep

I recently installed Windows Vista, and guess what was one of the first things to happen? I was typing along merrily, when suddenly a heart-wrenching beep! sounded in my ears. Yes, it was the infamous ThinkPad beep. How anyone ever thought this was a good idea is beyond me. Now that I finally have Vista,…Continue Reading…

Blake Ross is an inspiration

As a Firefox Campus Rep, I get a box of Firefox goodies to use while promoting Firefox on the USC campus. A few days ago, I received a box for this year. It contains a book called Firefox for Dummies, by Blake Ross. I have to be honest. I’ve always been a little hesitant to…Continue Reading…

Facebook on the iPhone

I hand my iPhone to a friend and invite her to try the web browser, Safari. What’s the first site she visits? Facebook, of course. When I was at the movie theatre, and I wanted to tell people where I was, what was my only choice? Facebook, of course. Unfortunately, the Facebook interface is not…Continue Reading…

iPhone Chinese Clone

This is simply amazing. Popular Science reports that cloning operations in China have already created a fake copy of the Apple iPhone. “The country’s ability to produce indistinguishable replicas of any moment’s must-have item is legendary: Manufacturers have serviced knockoff air conditioners as if they were their own; stores have refunded bootleg purses without batting…Continue Reading…

Unintentionally distributed badware “may harm your computer”

Here’s an interesting blog post about a website which was hacked to distribute malware. This has also happened to me on my sites, and it’s a really insidious problem. More and more websites on the internet are dynamic. This typically means that they’re user collaborative. Social sites like Facebook and others are quickly expanding and…Continue Reading…