Check This Out

I just came across a very neat Extension to Firefox.

Have you ever wondered if a specific site would be “safe” to visit?

Or have you ever been to a site stat had one popup after the other?

Or how about finding all sorts of new browser addins, trojans and viruses after visiting a site or downloading some sort of freeware?

Here’s what you should do:

1. Install Firefox (if you haven’t done so already)
2. Download and install SiteAdvisor

Now try searching for “screensaver” in any search engine, and you should notice that each result has been tagged with a Red X, a Yellow questionmark or a Green checkmark.

Hover your mouse over the icon, and it’ll show some more info about the site.

This way you can know in advance if a site is in the clear, borderline suspicious or totally redflagged.

I really enjoy using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer, but the way Firefox just handled the upgrade to 1.5.0.2 simply stinks

I was a breeze to upgrade, since Firefox automatically downloaded and installed it, but from there on it went downhill.

The positive news is that Firefox kept my bookmarks

The bad news is that it removed my theme and all my extensions.

So, is there a fast way to get all those extensions installed/upgraded again?

Well, I couldn’t find it, and now I have to go through the Firefox Extensions site and see if I can remember which extensions I had installed before.

It would have been nice it it had retained my list list of extensions and my themes, and just had me do a “search for upgrades” - but no.

This is simply not the best way to auto-upgrade a browser

Streamload is offering an API to interface to their storage service.

Kinda like the Amazon API for S3 - (but you can use the MediaMax API with even the free Streamload option [25 GB storage, download 500MB/mo, max filesize 25 MB])

You can use the API free for non-commercial applications, but you need to contact Streamload if you want to create a commercial application.

It’s REST based so it should be pretty straightforward to do in almost any programming environment.

Dammit, this one made me laugh. It reminded me of an old restaurant sketch with both tarts and fruit cakes.

I can’t see why Riya couldn’t recognize the “S” in “START”, other than it might be too close to the edge.

But it’s easy to see why the red dots were recognized as a face