Archive for the ‘Web’ Category

Google Block

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Hmmm... Looks like someone nearby is spamming Google:

googleblock.png

Better Browsing Experience in Safari

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

Just can't keep myself from promoting these two Safari extensions:

AdBlock

adblock

Hides ads on all web pages you visit in Safari. It's extremely good at cleaning the web; I was using it for a while and when I disabled it I was amazed how much crap I missed. Must have.

http://safariadblock.com/

Ghostery

ghostery

This one kills tracking code on web pages (mostly analytics beacons). I'm not a privacy freak but if I can leak less data about myself and speed up sites loading why not doing so...

http://www.ghostery.com/

Unicode Mirror Character

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

It turns out that unicode standard defines a character that explicitly reverses the following text. You can insert it as ‮ in your html. Here is a sample:

Normal Text:

Send more money

Prepended By Mirror Character:

‮Send more money

Here is the specification of algorithm.