We internet-addicts are a tragic group. We spend our days and nights creating and maintaining the greatest network of knowledge known to man, while wasting away (or, in most cases, ballooning up) in our extra-lumbar-support chairs. And what do we get in return for enslaving ourselves to our machines? Money? Fame? Sometimes, but more often than not all we get is a sore back, dry eyes, creaking finger joints, and carpal tunnel syndrome. What are we cubicle dwellers and home computer workers to do?! The answer is quite simple, actually: get some exercise.

Link to read the article: http://www.diylife.c...-stuck-at-your-desk/

The cool YSlow plugin for firefox is discussed in detail on the Coding Horror blog.  He likes it but has some warnings about taking the numbers too seriously..

This plugin evaluates the current page using the 13 rules and provides specific guidance on how to fix any problems it finds. And best of all, the tool rates the page with a score-- a score! There's nothing we love more than boiling down pages and pages of complicated advice to a simple, numeric score. Here's my report card score for yesterday's post.

http://www.codinghor...archives/000932.html

Link to YSlow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

Nice site lists stats about your website..

http://www.xinureturns.com/

One of the best free cleaning tools just got a little better (note this is a beta build so normal people might want to wait for a stable release!)

Features of CCleaner 2.0:

• Complete rebuild in C++ - With the requirements for a portable version, 64-bit compatibility and Windows Vista increasing against the limitations of the old architecture. We decided to rebuild the entire CCleaner application in highly optimized C++.
• Faster analyzing and cleaning - Each scanning process was rewritten from scratch and fully optimized. The result being a noticeable speed increase in all areas.
• Portable - CCleaner can now run from a USB thumbdrive and be installed/run on a computer without a complicated setup process.
• Compact - The rewrite removed all external file dependencies, so the main EXE is now half the size of the original program and support files.
• Redesigned User Interface - The original CCleaner user interface was looking a little dated, so the GUI was redesigned with a modern look, but without sacrificing speed or usability. New icons were created for the interface and the main program icon was updated with a more modern style.
• Exclusions - It is now possible to specify files, folders and registry keys to ignore from the cleaning process.
• Loads of little tweaks - Too numerous to mention them all separately, we've tried to improve CCleaner in all areas.

http://www.ccleaner.com/ccleaner-20

Cool article and a digg-like site highlighting new interesting edits..

See Who's Editing Wikipedia - Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign
By John Borland Email 08.14.07 | 2:00 AM
CalTech graduate student Virgil Griffith built a search tool that traces IP addresses of those who make Wikipedia changes.
Photo: Jake Appelbaum

On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company's machines. While anonymous, such changes typically leave behind digital fingerprints offering hints about the contributor, such as the location of the computer used to make the edits.

In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself. And it is far from an isolated case. A new data-mining service launched Monday traces millions of Wikipedia entries to their corporate sources, and for the first time puts comprehensive data behind longstanding suspicions of manipulation, which until now have surfaced only piecemeal in investigations of specific allegations.

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Wikipedia Scanner -- the brainchild of Cal Tech computation and neural-systems graduate student Virgil Griffith -- offers users a searchable database that ties millions of anonymous Wikipedia edits to organizations where those edits apparently originated, by cross-referencing the edits with data on who owns the associated block of internet IP addresses.

Article in Wired: http://www.wired.com...2007/08/wiki_tracker
WikiScanner Page: http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/
Cool list of up-to-date discoveries: http://wired.reddit.com/wikidgame

I'm aware of Roboform,but was wondering if there is a setting or extension that would allow me to login into sites automatically like Opera's wand feature.I love Opera but have to admit sometimes i need to fire up Firefox and this is a bit of a drawback,not a huge one,but annoying none the less.