Category Archives: Miscellaneous

How can Gmail possibly not catch this as phishing?

from Gmail Online Service <mailonlineservice05@gmail.com> to date Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:35 PM subject PRECAUTION Gmail technology team has recently launched Google web software to protect and secure all Gmail Accounts. This system also enhanced efficient networking and fully supported browser. You need to upgrade to a fully supported browser by filling out the […]

Mmm, middle click for trackpad under OS X

Incredibly useful for Firefox and X11: http://clement.beffa.org/labs/projects/middleclick/

Papers: first impressions

I’m using the Papers program for the first time, on a 30-day trial basis.  It seems like one of those programs whose benefits aren’t totally obvious until you really have been using it for a little while.  The problem for me has generally not been having papers scattered on my hard drive — I already […]

Credit cards without foreign transaction fees

As of today (10 August 2008), I am told by their customer service people that Capital One credit cards still have no foreign transaction fees.  I am going to at least one foreign conference this academic year, and this time around I have promised myself to be prepared!