Monthly Archive: May 2010

May 18

ReclaimPrivacy: Another Facebook Privacy Checker

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Right after I wrote about SaveFace last night, I learned about another Facebook privacy tool. This one can be found at ReclaimPrivacy.org and is another JavaScript bookmarklet like SaveFace. The ReclaimPrivacy privacy scanner, however, presents a little differently and leaves you with a status once completed. If it finds anything it doesn’t like, you’ll get …

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May 17

SaveFace Helps With Facebook Privacy

The folks behind the Untangle Firewall released an interesting little “bookmark utility” called SaveFace today. If you’re concerned about the assorted Facebook privacy issues and not sure you’ve caught everything, this might be worth a shot. No install necessary, just drag the little bookmarklet to your browser’s Favorites bar. Then head over to your Facebook …

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May 15

VMware and Unity Issue: Fixed

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I’ve had a history of frustration with VMware Workstation and the Unity mode. I’ve had it work on some machines, not work on others and sometimes even switch from working to not working. And I won’t lie, this has made me a little crazy because — when it works — I really like Unity! A …

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May 14

Mozilla Plugin Check

I saw this on the Mozilla Security Blog earlier this week. Mozilla has expanded the Plugin Check page quite a bit with support for all the major browsers: […] the team has since expanded plugin check coverage to work with Safari 4, Chrome 4, and Opera 10.5. We have added support for Internet Explorer 7 …

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May 12

Second Internet Explorer 9 Preview

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About two months after the first Internet Explorer 9 Preview the IE team announced the second preview last week. Looking at it as a casual user there’s no big changes here, but it does feel a bit faster than the last one – and dramatically faster than IE8. If you’re a web developer, though, it …

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