Business Commando

It seems like everyday there is a new extension created for Firefox. 
Although some of these are quite cool, I try to avoid rushing to
install them, as at the end of the day I don’t actually need them.

It’s
a shame that everyone seems to focus on the newest and shiniest
extensions, so I’ve decided to take it upon myself to promote some of
the lesser known extensions that I believe really make Firefox a joy to
use, rather than just something to show off to non-Firefox users who
haven’t seen the light yet.

1. Download Statusbar - view and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar, so that downloads don’t get in the way of browsing
2. Colorful Tabs - May sound really boring, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier to distinguish between tabs
3. Image Zoom - This is one of my personal favs as it allows me to zoom in on images on a page without having to download them
4. PDF Download
- For all those annoying sites that seem to grow and grow where they
are worried about you stealing their content. This extension allows
PDFs to be opened in a tab for easier management
5. Tab Mix Plus - Every tweak and option under the sun you could ever want to manage tabs
6. WebmailCompose - Fantastic extension that opens your chosen webmail compose window if any email addresses are clicked on
7. Optimoz Tweaks - If you a heavy user of sidebars this great extension makes it easier to open and close them
8. Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer - The only bookmarks sync tool I’ve found that works seamlessly between PCs
9. Autohide
- This one isn’t promoted heavily, but if you like browsing full-screen
it gives some useful control over what elements Firefox displays
10. MediaPlayerConnectivity- automatically launches all media elements in their correct players, allowing full-screen playback of embedded videos

I’m sure there are many others that people can’t live without, but these are always the first ones I install on a new PC.

The Gypsy MIDI Controller.

The Spy Cam Jet Plane.

Dave’s Bit Bucket

Monday January 30, 2006

Dutch biometric passports cracked, ID info stealable
It’s as well that there is lively debate on this subject, from a
technical standpoint as well as the more expected civil liberties
folk…
The Dutch passport, one of the first to include “biometric” information
which can be read digitally in accordance with new internatiomal
legislation, has been cracked from a range of 10 metres such that
cleartext of the data stored therein is extracted. Kudos to the Riscure
labs in Delft for publishing.
First reported at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/30/dutch_biometric_passport_crack/, Riscure’s own press release here, abstracted material from presentation on the subject by Jacobs and Schreur at a SafeNL workshop here.
(2006-01-30 05:55:15.0)
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Boing Boing: Girls’ encrypted USB stick locks parents out of diary and MSN Messenger

Girls’ encrypted USB stick locks parents out of diary and MSN Messenger


The ThoughtSafe is an encrypted USB memory stick with its own version
of MSN Messenger: it’s marketed to young girls who want to keep a
private diary and prevent their parents or others from spying on or
controlling their IM activity.
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(via Gizmodo)