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I came across a cool search engine the other day called Koders which is “a free on-line search engine for open source software and other web-downloadable code.”
The cool thing about this is you can search for just about any and every language you can think of, and quickly browse the source code of open source [...]

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Password strength checker

Friday, May 30th, 2008

We all know passwords are the bane of any internet users online experience. So many sites, each with their own authentication requirements.
I came across this handy site called passwordmeter to help test the strength of your passwords.
It’s cool because it gives you an instant visual response for your passwords based upon things like;

Number of characters
Upper [...]

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Apparently the CAPTCHA for Windows Live Mail can be cracked in as little as 60 seconds and Gmail’s CAPTCHA has also been cracked.
Does this mean the beginning of the end for CAPTCHA?
There are some other interesting solutions to spambots out there, it’ll be interesting to see the future landscape of this infestation and the methods [...]

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Better YouTube Firefox Extension

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

This is cool, a little Firefox addon from the guys at lifehacker to make your youtube experience a little richer
It basically combines several Greasemonkey scripts together into a single package.
Features include:

smartly enlarges videos for better viewing
hides user comments
declutters the page
disables autoplay

Download and install the addon, restart Firefox and you’re set to go. To [...]

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A couple more cool Firefox tips

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Another couple of cool Firefox features which most people probably already know about.
How many times have you closed a tab only to realise “Damn…I still wanted that open!“? Well I do that about everyday and although you have the general history manager…if you’ve visited 100 sites that day it’s a pain to wade through to [...]

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