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How to click on a link in ThunderBird, link that opens in FireFox, without losing focus on ThunderBird?

My blog posts starts with the following two assumptions:
1. You use Mozilla’s ThunderBird and FireFox as main applications for email and, respectively, opening links; also, my solution is tested on Windows only; but I remember the same problem when working on Linux for a year;
2. You are annoyed that each time you click on an link from an email in ThunderBird, the current application (ThunderBird) loses focus and immediately switches to FireFox;
3. You need to click on a lot of links in ThunderBird, for my solutions to be worth the time spent on them.

So, how to solve the problem? +Continue Reading

Botnets – first understand them and then fight them. A practical guide

The article will lead you first on what’s a botnet. It will then present some typical actions of a botnet. You can then go behind the scenes and understand the mechanism of a botnet and who does it (not to mention how it is controlled). Finally, after you’ve understood what a botnet is, you will get a real life solution for protecting against botnets. +Continue Reading

WordPress: How to use wp-mail.php correctly in Gmail blog posts? This is my solution

Let’s say you wish to use the WordPress function for blogging via email posts. This work great for HTML emails in Yahoo Mail. It works great for Google’s Gmail in plain-text format. How about Gmail in HTML emails? Things get trickier. That’s why I present you my very first PHP small add-on. +Continue Reading

Software for changing files from Unicode into ASCII

There are some cases when you need to convert Unicode texts into ASCII. I’ve created a small Borland Pascal software for this. See below. +Continue Reading