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Add ?NoCleanFeed or &NoCleanFeed to Blacklisted URLs to Bypass Mandatory Australian Internet Censorship

20 December 2009

Depending on the technology, you can bypass the proposed Australian mandatory filter by changing your DNS servers, using an encrypted VPN service, or installing Tor. But these workarounds can take up to 60 seconds to set up, and can slow your access somewhat. Instead, you can bypass the filter by simply adding ?NoCleanFeed or &NoCleanFeed to the end of the blacklisted URL.

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How to Get Rid of Temporary Posts Used for Theme Detection Permanently

17 November 2009

Windows Live Writer is an exceptional tool for blogging. But it relies on an inelegant mechanism to detect the theme used by your blog. The result is an Internet littered with Temporary Posts Used For Theme Detection. Thankfully, you can use a WordPress plugin to prevent these posts from ever appearing on your website.

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Get to Any Section on AustLII in One Step

6 September 2009

If you’re using a browser that supports search keywords, you can add a keyword for your favourite act. For example, you can add a ‘tpa’ keyword, so that when you type ‘tpa 52’ in the address bar, you’re taken directly to s 52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth).

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ACMA Blacklists Iran Protest Video & Boing Boing

28 August 2009

Neda Agha-Soltan was shot and killed during the Iranian election protests. Her death was captured on video, and spread virally on the Internet, becoming a rallying cry for the Iranian protests. Now, ACMA has blacklisted the video, and a Boing Boing post commenting on it.

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Googling Sex in Two Countries

24 August 2009

When people flocked to reproduce Abigail Bray’s experiment of searching Google for ‘sex’, what surprised me was that the results varied significantly. So, I tried myself, and I found that the results were very different when searching Google than they were when searching Google Australia.

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Simple Countdown Timer for Windows

21 August 2009

I needed a simple timer utility for Windows, but I wasn’t satisfied with any of the programs available. So, I wrote Orzeszek Timer. Just enter the time to count down in just about any format, and hit Enter to start the timer.

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How to Sync WMP and iTunes Ratings

17 August 2009

If you use both Windows Media Player and iTunes to manage your music, keeping your ratings synchronised can be a pain. Orzeszek Ratings lets you sync your play counts and ratings between Windows Media Player and iTunes with two clicks.

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How to Delete Flash Cookies Conveniently

12 August 2009

A couple of days ago, Wired reported on the questionable use of Flash cookies revealed by a UC Berkley study. Many users are unaware that Adobe’s popular Flash plugin stores its own cookies separately from normal browser cookies. Here’s how to get rid of them.

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Fix Slow WLM File Transfers with Orzeszek Transfer

11 August 2009

Slow and buggy file transfers are a problem with Windows Live Messenger. Orzeszek Transfer works as a simple HTTP server, and is a convenient way to transfer larger files without using an intermediary. And it supports resuming broken transfers and multi-part transfers, so long as the client does.

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Will Firefox Morph into Chrome over Two Iterations?

22 July 2009

Sadly, Firefox today looks like it belongs in the last decade. Recently, a number of blogs have picked up screenshots showing mock-ups of the interface for Firefox 3.7. But what I found more interesting was a proposed interface evolution showing Firefox morphing into Google Chrome over two iterations.

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Change the Tag Cloud Font Size in WordPress 2.8

11 June 2009

One of the annoyances about the default tag cloud widget in WordPress is that there is no easy way to change the minimum and maximum font size that the widget uses. While the recent release of WordPress 2.8 doesn’t add any UI to change those sizes, it’s now easier to change them than before.

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Razer Prohibits Use of Its Mice with Multiple PCs

28 May 2009

I bought a AU$200 Razer Mamba mouse. Being inclined as I am, I decided to read through the legalese that accompanied the mouse, including the EULA for the driver software. ‘Razer™ grants you a … license to use one copy of the enclosed software … on one computer only … No other rights are granted.’

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