Clean your firefox history.

I will not go into details on why you would want to remove selected entries from your firefox history. But we are geeks, we have all sorts of dark secrets. So how would you delete selected entries from Firefox history ?

Press Ctrl+H to access your web history in the Firefox sidebar, type some characters in the search box to find the website(s) that you want to remove, right click and select the "Forget About This Site" option.

This option lets you delete either entire domains (like google.com) or even sub-domains (like images.google.com) from your browser history. If you like to selectively delete only a couple of web pages from the history (and not the entire website), just right click the web page title in the History box and select Delete This Page or hit the Del key on your keyboard.

Now, you want to clear the tracks for last few hours or few days. How would you do that ? (we are still not going into the reason of doing this)

Press Ctrl+Shift+Del in Firefox to open the "Clear Recent History" dialog and select "the last two hours" or "my history for today" option. This will delete only your recent Internet history while leaving the old data untouched . (See the screenshot below)

Meebo adds Facebook and Myspace chat.

Meebo is a web-based chat client that lets you keep up with your AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and Windows Live Messenger contacts. Now Meebo has rolled out support for two more chat clients: Facebook and MySpace.

Meebo provides a way to chat with contacts using 9 different IM clients now, and you can do it all from a single web page. So you don't need to leave Facebook, Gmail, or MySpace open all day if all you care about is the chat features. And more importantly, since Meebo is web-based, you can use the service from any computer without stopping to install software. [via CNET] 

Goodbye Firefox 2.

As expected, Mozilla has pulled the plug on Firefox 2. There will be no more security updates, and no more support for the web browser. When users download and install the latest update for Firefox 2, they're greeted with a message suggesting they upgrade to Firefox 3 which is generally both faster and more secure than Firefox 2.
Of course, some people don't like the way Firefox 3 handles bookmarks or tabs, which could make them reluctant to upgrade. But I'd recommend upgrading for the security enhancements alone. You can always search for Firefox add-ons that enhance the bookmark manager or tab positions.
[via Mashable]

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Microsoft issues patch for latest IE vulnerability

Microsoft is acting to address concerns regarding the vulnerability that has been widely reported on since it was revealed last week. According to BetaNews there still haven't been any reported incidents involving the exploit. Even though the vulnerability's existence has yet to be confirmed, Microsoft has responded quickly and has prepared a patch for release today at 10:00am PST. There are also webcasts scheduled for December 17th and 18th to answer customer concerns regarding the out-of-band update.
For more information about the specifics of the vulnerability, read Microsoft's December 12th TechNet post. The post also details five different workarounds (which should be unnecessary once the patch is released). It's likely that Microsoft will also update the original security advisory with a link to the patch once it has been made available.

Update: downloads are available here - choose the link that matches your Windows OS.
[ via BetaNews ] 

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UnChrome Anonymizes Your Google Chrome Installation

UnChrome helps you browse anonymously by removing the unique ID from Google Chrome that Google associates with your Chrome installation.  Chrome Privacy Guard does a similar thing.

UnChrome [via Download Squad]

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iPhone 3G unlocked.

Hackers known as the iPhone Dev Team have successfully unlocked the iPhone 3G for use on unsupported GSM networks. Right now they've simply confirmed the 3G unlock, but according the the Dev Team blog post, a free unlocking software should be available by New Year's Eve. [via]

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Picasa 3.1 update

Google has released a new official update in the form of Picasa 3.1. The biggest news in this release is that Picasa 3.1 adds support for 38 languages and name tags.

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Picasa 3.1 update

Google has released a new official update in the form of Picasa 3.1. The biggest news in this release is that Picasa 3.1 adds support for 38 languages and name tags.

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How to remove all comments from Wordpress.

As you can see that I hardly blogged for last 4 months. When I logged in to my Wordpress console today, I found around 50k comments – most of them spam. Its not humanly possible to delete all of them manually.

The best way of getting rid of a bunch of un-approved comments from Wordpress is to manually remove from the database. Please backup your database before you use this technique.

First, go into phpmyadmin and select the database wordpress is using, and hit the SQL tab.

Execute the following query in the SQL section of phpmyadmin

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_approved =’0’

This this will output a number. Make sure this is the exact same number as the amount of pending comments you have in the wordpress admin panel. It should be. If it isn’t you have some serious problems which I can’t help you with.

Now that we have isolated the pending comments, time to delete them all. Go back into the SQL section and enter this command

delete from wp_comments WHERE comment_approved =’0’

You are done.

Skin Google Chrome.

We love Google Chrome. But quite frankly, the blue theme sucks on my black theme. If you've seen the screenshots of Google Chrome on XP vs Vista, you've probably noticed that the interface looks completely different. If you want to make your XP version use a slick black theme, you can do so with a custom hack.

Installing the Custom Theme

You'll first need to download the patched theme file from the link at the bottom. Next, open up an explorer window, and paste in the following to the address bar:

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\0.2.149.27\Themes

You should see a file called default.dll, which you want to make a copy of before you do anything else.

Next you'll want to paste the default.dll contained in the theme's zip file into this directory. You should be prompted to overwrite the current file (which you should have backed up).

At this point, you can start up chrome and you'll see the new theme.

Removing the Theme

Simply delete the new default.dll file and rename the copy back to the original defualt.dll name. That's all there is to it. You should note that these themes will have to be re-patched every time a new version of Google Chrome is released, which could be quite often.

Download ZOMBRE Google Chrome theme from deviantart.com

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