Australian dictionary for Firefox

As most of you Firefox users are probably aware, the latest version has a built-in spell checker which is really useful in web forms. But if you prefer a proper spell checker (rather than the default American one), you should download the Australian Dictionary extension from Cameron Roy instead.

Forget Adobe, Foxit instead

For those of you who are still using the over-bloated Adobe Reader to view and print your PDF documents, seriously consider uninstalling it and replacing it with Foxit Reader instead.

Unlike the ubiquitous Adobe product, Foxit Reader is around 10 times smaller in size, loads much faster and it won’t freeze your computer. It’s probably the only PDF reader you’ll ever need, unless you’re planning on doing some serious editing of your PDF documents.

The scams are getting dumber

Some knuckleheads from the other side of the world tried scamming me (along with a few million other people) a couple of weeks ago.

Read more >>

Saving web pages as images

Recently, I needed to write some documentation for a web application and I needed a way to create screenshots of web pages which are longer than one screen.

While there are several shareware applications which can do this, I stumbled on a Firefox extension which does exactly this in such a simple and elegant way.

Screengrab allows you to grab a screenshot with a simple right-click of a mouse. You can grab the complete page, visible portion or your own custom selection, and copy it to your clipboard or save it as an image file.