Mobile web browser ที่ตัดคำได้ อันเดียวของโลก - Opera

ผมใช้ Opera มาตั้งแต่สมัยที่ใช้ Nokia E71 และ E72 ซึ่งขณะนั้นก็ไม่ได้มีตัวเลือกอื่นมากนัก
แต่ขณะนี้ที่ใช้อยู่คือ Samsung Galaxy S3 ซึ่งมีตัวเลือกหลากหลาย อาทิเช่น Chrome, Firefox, Default Android Web Browser, Opera, เป็นต้นว่า
ปรากฏว่ามีแต่ Opera เท่านั้นที่สามารถตัดคำขึ้นบรรทัดใหม่ให้กับเนื้อหาในหน้า webpage ต่างๆได้ ส่งผลให้เราไม่ต้องคอยเลื่อนซ้ายขวาๆๆๆๆๆเวลาอ่าน content ใน webpage ต่างๆ ได้ทั้ง ภาษาไทย และ ภาษาอังกฤษ!!!

https certificate expired and chrome does not like it (by default)

Don't get me wrong.  I don't like Google Chrome personally even though I use it.  See? Hating does not mean you cannot live with it.  Right now, I have to run both Firefox and Google Chrome on the same machine as I don't know yet other way around to separate sessions / cookies of the same website on different tabs.  One thing I need, for example, is to access 2 gmail accounts at the same time (and I just want to do it through web-based only but not pop3/imap).

Today I wanted to sign up for a hotmail email as I needed a dummy email for testing purpose (I won't use hotmail for my personal emails anyway).  I used Google Chrome, went to www.hotmail.com, clicked "sign-up", and then I got this red alert page:

live.com's SSL has expired!? ... I wouldn't expect such a big company like Microsoft to make this kind of mistake unless it was by intention.

By default, Google Chrome does not allow us to access website under https with an expired certificate.  Unlike Firefox where on the same alert page, it gives us a confirm button to click which will allow us to access that suspicious web page.

Anyway, it is not difficult at all to change the default behavior just by going to this dialogue of Chrome:

And make sure you uncheck the "Check for server certificate revocation":

After that, you have to refresh that https web page and Google Chrome will allow you to access the web page under https with expired ssl certificate.

Surfing websites anonymously with Tor

I completely don't understand why my government (in Thailand) has to invest a considerable amount of money on blocking undesirable websites.  As per my clear technical knowledge, it is impossible to do such thing.  Even within The Great Firewall of China, anyone who want to enjoy their activities on the Internet freely can, at least, subscribe to a pretty cheap and affordable VPN service from any providers outside China and then route their traffics through the VPN gateway instead and live a happier life since.

I'd like to introduce you of how to browse websites anonymously (which also bypasses the Internet Censorship somehow) through a well-known proxy system, Tor.

Regardless of how complexity Tor is which you will never really have to concern and if you run Grml Linux, you are coming to a right way.  The set up is very easy as follow:

• grml_2009.10 (Hello-Wien) - I'd assume for any newer versions of grml, it should be relatively easy still
• # agi tor
• # /etc/init.d/privoxy start
• # /etc/init.d/tor start
• Install Torbutton for Firefox

Now when you want to browse website anonymously via Tor, you can just click at the Torbutton on the bottom-right corner of Firefox (just make sure privoxy daemon and tor daemon are up and  running).

firefox custom search

Today I wanted to add a custom search to my Firefox.  It is the search box on the top right corner of Firefox.  By default, I saw:

• Google
• Yahoo
• Amazon
• ...

But what I wanted is urbandictionary.com.  It's so easy to add a custom search in Firefox.  I opened Terminal, login as root, then:

vi /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/searchplugins/urbandictionary.src

I then entered xml code below:

<search
  name="urbandictionary"
  method="GET"
  action="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php"
  queryCharset="utf-8">
  <input name="term" user />
</search>

I tested it with MacOSX.  An example here is urbandictionary.com.

Flashblock for Firefox - Blocking annoying Flash!!!!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433

You can block all the Flashes objects now!

Enjoy, a better world!