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I have just added another great plugin to my installation of Firefox, Spellbound is a straight forward, but feature-rich spell checker for form fields. Check out the screen shots to see it in action.
So, add this plugin to the list of Firefox plugins I posted about previously.
Oddly enough, I had to add the word ‘Firefox’ to its internal dictionary…
One of the things I love most about the Net is the growth of useful communities. One such community is dealmac, a site which provides the latest information on the best prices for Macintosh related items. These prices are often submitted by community members, who happened to stumble upon a good deal, and want to spread the word.
The site provides a wealth of tools as well, including e-mail alerts tailored to your needs, and RSS feeds of the latest products added to the site.
New Scientist brings word of a new drug to prevent brain damage in stroke victims. The experiments made us of a combination of two of my favorite substances – caffeine and alcohol, to cut brain damage in rats and later in a small pilot study of humans. A short excerpt from the article:
> A caffeine and alcohol cocktail similar to an Irish coffee could prevent severe brain damage in stroke victims, new research has revealed.
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> The experimental drug, called caffeinol, has the potency of two cups of strong coffee and a small shot of alcohol. When injected into rats within three hours of an artificially stimulated stroke, brain damage was cut by up to 80 per cent.
Great News! The EFF won a major court case today:
> California – Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made a crucial decision (PDF) in support of technology innovators by declaring that distributors of the peer-to-peer software Grokster and Morpheus cannot be held liable for the infringing activities of their users. The Electronic Frontier Foundation argued on behalf of Streamcast, the creator of the Morpheus software, in a case that pitted dozens of entertainment conglomerates against two small software companies.
Score one for innovation. Well, until the ruling is appealed…
After spending far too many hours trying to recall the way to set up Samba on a Linux box – so it can resume its role as a fileserver – I found a detailed walkthrough, listing the steps to configure Samba via Webmin on the Webmin site.
Update: I’ve revised the directions slightly to show the difference between 10.3 & 10.4, plus I’ve added a screen shot.
Just a quick note to document how to change which applications are used to open specific file types.
All you have to do, is select a file in the Finder and ‘Get Information’ (cmd + i or right-click > Get Info or cmd + click > Get Info) for it. Then toggle the ‘Open with…’ option and choose the proper application.
To make sure that every file of that type (every php file for example) uses the new application, make sure you choose that option below the application drop down box (it may be grayed out until you’ve chosen an alternate application from the current default:
10.3: “The generic application for documents of this type”
10.4: “Use this application to open all documents like this.” > Click the Change All button.
Source: macosxhints – Changing application/file associations