Links for January 16, 2007
Some fresh, some a wee-but stale, but all interesting, IMO
- Hack Attack: Bolster your browsing privacy at work
- How to tweak Firefox to protect your surfing history at work. Or if you use a Mac, try surfing with Safari in private browsing mode. Warning: my boss and I ran into a weird bug with the Flash 9 player and safari in private browsing mode. Some buttons didn’t work properly with private browsing enabled.
- It’s in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website
- Seven things to consider when building a multi-lingual, multi-cultural global website. [Via Quirksmode]
- Google Analytics Hack - obtaining full referring URL
- Add a simple snippet of JavaScript to your page to force Google Analytics to capture the full referring URL. [Via etc.]
- Visa, Nokia turn cell phones into credit cards
- Have Nokia phone, have Visa. Expect mobile payments to become huge in the U.S. either late this year or early next. [Via TomSoft / Carnival of the Mobilists → C. Enrique Ortiz]
- Putting 2.7 billion in context: Mobile phone users
- Globally speaking, mobile is it, son:
Three times as many mobile phones as automobiles or personal computers. About twice as many mobile phone owners as those of fixed landline phones or credit cards. And almost twice as many mobile phones in use as TV sets.
- Absolute Power
But it has finally become clear that the goal of these foolish efforts isn’t really to win the war against terrorism; … The object is a larger one, and the original overarching goal of this administration: expanding executive power, for its own sake.
DING DING DING! Give the lady a gold star.- AJAX Debugging with Firebug
- How to use Firebug to debug your Ajax applications.
- Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation - Browsers Heading Apart Again
- Richard McManus speculates on where Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 are headed.
- The New Prudishness
- Is our current “we’re living in a porn society” really true, or uptight hype? [On Nerve.com, NSFW]
