Since I commute to school every day, and my home iMac is by far my most powerful computer, I’ve been looking into ways to connect securely to my home network from anywhere. After several hours spent reading about how to tunnel VNC traffic over SSH, I stumbled across an awesome utility called Sharetool.

Sure, I could configure my network using my (more…)

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So I work for a software engineering company that requires a multi-step login process. I was tired of clicking the same buttons over and over again every time I needed to login, so I looked for something that would make my life easier. What I found was a sweet plugin for Firefox called iMacros, made by iOpus.

It allows you to record keystrokes and link clicks so that you can easily automate tasks you perform on a daily basis. Also, I haven’t experimented with it, but iOpus has a bunch of other optimization software, so be sure to check out your site.

Any feedback on additional tools is appreciated.

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I’ve been doing this for a couple years, but if you haven’t heard of MacHeist, you should definitely sign up and start checking it out. Here’s the link: MacHeist Signup!

Basically how it works is you sign up (which, did I mention, is free), then you get to do some sick online missions that lead to registration info for free copies of premium Mac software. Last year, I finished about 2/3rd’s of the missions, and I got over $150 worth of free software! Plus, at the end, you have the option to buy the yearly software bundle, which is a $400+ value for around $50.

Overall, one of the coolest (if not the coolest) ways to get mac software for free online.

PS. Check my twitter (http://twitter.com/thinklime which should also be in my lifestream) if you want the coordinates for the first copy of free software (Daisy Disk, a sick hard drive space management tool).

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So wanted to start a new series called ‘Web Power Users’ where I showcase interesting tools from around the web that are especially useful for web devs, designers, or web power users in general.  This week’s tool is simply called: Ubiquity. It’s a new relatively new addition to the Mozilla Labs [which has a ton of cool stuff btw], and it allows you to actually issue commands to the browser.

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Preface:  Looking to speed up your site anywhere from 25%-70%+ without changing any of your code? Read on to find out how.

In case you’ve checked out my last post, you will have seen that I absolutely love a Firefox add-on called YSlow.  This add-on actually (more…)

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So I was bored, and like I usually do whenever I am bored I begin to waste time online just surfing around.  This time I stumbled across Firefox’s add-on site which I love, and saw that they added a new feature called ‘Collections’.  These collections  (more…)

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