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Now THAT feels ever more like home…

Posted by Nils - 18/06/08 at 06:06:22 am

Firefox 3 is finally ready to download (though all servers are at the moment more or less overwhelmed, due to the worldrecord attempt).

Since it’s first release it integrates very well into the various systems because someone at Mozilla (after all) had the look & feel in mind. I think thats a big achievement though I stilled wished a support for the various password managers like the keychain or the kde wallet would have made it into the final release.

To top it all off, the UI gets even more “mac” with Aroonax’s GrApple Theme from takebacktheweb.org. (Which is an awesome domainname by the way )

So folks, have a nice day and light a candle, hoping for people around the world to finally abandon this so called “internet explorer” and get their copy of web-freedom.

word!

Fancy Zoom

Posted by Nils - 10/02/08 at 05:02:03 pm

Fancy Zoom is a great way of adding zoom capabilities to your website in a blink of an eye.
Javascript powered and cross-browser compatible.

Have a look at the demo-site!

To add fancy zoom to your site do the following easy steps:

1. Download Fancy Zoom over at cabel’s place
2. add upload the contents of the package to your webroot
3. add the following javascript files to your html pages:



4. enable the body to load the neccesary javascript stuff:



and you’re done!
from now on, every link to an image becomes zoomed. Even text-links to images!

thank you cabel for this great addition!

- Nils

FireGPG: web-based email en-, decrypting & signing

Posted by micele - 06/02/08 at 04:02:43 pm

I often run into the problem of receiving encrypted mails but not be able to read it because I only have webmail access at this moment. Installing PGP plugins for webmailer like SquirrelMail always looked like a bad idea to me. Especially SquirrelMail hasn’t been the most secure peace of software out there and a place surrounded by all this php-web-foobar security leaks isn’t the best place for a private key. However there is another possibility of *crypting, signing and verifiying emails using webmail interfaces.
The FireFox extension FireGPG is a simple way to do all this pretty things. FireGPG just extends the FireFox context menu so that you can easily mark text inside textboxes and de- or encrypt it by mouseclick. Unfortunately GnuPG has to be installed.

It’s still a beta release but I suggest it’s stable enough to give it a try in secure enviroments. So get it!

Furthermore maybe this is a good choice for the Mac OS X 10.5 user. Somewhere I read that GPGMail doesn’t work with the toothless Leopard so far?!

Dec 9, 2007 - GPGMail & 10.5 (Leopard)
GPGMail doesn’t work yet on 10.5, and can’t work as-is. I’m currently working on the port, and published a beta version.

- micele