July 2005 Entries

Google toolbar for Firefox

Just call me the Googleblogger! It seems like a good percentage of my posts mention Google. I just think they are such a cool company though. Up until now I've been content with the built-in search bar for Firefox. Hit CTRL+K and you get popped up there, CTRL+UP/DOWN cycles between search engines (which you can add to!). It works pretty well, but there were a few things from the Google IE Toolbar that I missed. Spell check Up (go up one portion of the URL -- more useful than you'd think) Form Autofill Each of these options are pretty...

Fun with blogs

It's just unbelievable to me how much feedback spam I get. I know that this blog is far, far from high-traffic, yet I get 10-12 gambling-related feedback spams each day. I thought I'd jump on the CAPTCHA bandwagon and make it a bit harder to post feedback, but two things went wrong. First of all, the control I tried to pop in there just didn't work all that well. When I tested it, I could post comments without entering anything -- it only validated if something was entered. I was told though, that some people...