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Killing Tynt’s “Read More:” Clipboard Copy Hijacker With The Adblock Plus Plug-In For Firefox

I love Firefox. It’s pretty much the only Web browser I use. I hate Tynt. If you’ve ever copied text from a Web page, then pasted it, only to find a mysterious “Read More:” link inserted at the end of the text you copied, you just ran headfirst into Tynt. Each time a user pastes [...]

It’s All Chinese To Me: Reader Has Google Translate Built-In

I really like Google Reader; one of its great features is its recommendations. As long as you choose to “like” articles and media on a fairly consistent basis, Reader can do a very good job of finding new content and sources (provided, that is, they come from a Feedburner RSS feed). Because Google expected me [...]

Designers And Developers: Donate Your Time, Talent At New England GiveCamp, June 11-13, 2010

One of the things I found out about at Tuesday’s MSDN Northeast Roadshow stop in Augusta is the first New England GiveCamp, June 11-13 at Microsoft’s Northeast Research and Development center in Cambridge, MA. I’m attending, and I’d urge you to do so. A GiveCamp is basically a gathering of developers, DBAs, project managers, designers [...]

Dynamically Adding JavaScript To Your ASP.NET Master Page From A Child Page

A common challenge when working with ASP.NET master pages is how to dynamically add JavaScript that is relevant to a specific child page. In other words, maybe your site has 10 child pages that share one master page / template. One of them is, let’s say, a contact us / directions page, and on that [...]

Ensuring JavaScript Is Enabled Before Displaying Content On A Web Page

I’ve previously noted that password-protection schemes that depend on JavaScript alone are entirely pointless. No matter how hard you try to obfuscate, mask or hide efforts to protect JavaScript code, anyone with a bit of knowledge and a bit of time on his hands can retrieve and view all your code, including all your username [...]

A New Low, Even For Yahoo! Answers

I really shouldn’t snicker. But the link below is to what has to be the stupidest question I’ve ever seen posted on Yahoo! Answers. And considering I’ve answered over 6,500 questions, that’s saying something. Prepare yourself; think “dead puppies” or “naked grandmother” before clicking this link, or you may well burst an aneurysm laughing: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080731201724AAhwdIy