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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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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