Tim Dupree

If you’re on Flickr alot you’re familiar with what a pain it can be to browse through a photo set or stream. There is a great plugin for Firefox called PicLens which hooks into a lot of mainstream websites, such as Flickr, Google, Photobucket, Facebook etc. and makes browsing through lots of photos really easy and much quicker than the usual click and load routine.  It can also handle YouTube videos as well. Video quality isn’t so hot, but its a really nice user experience.  Check it out.

Ever looked at your address bar while reading your email in Gmail and noticed that the page wasn’t encrypted (”http” and not “https”)? Google sends you to a secure page to login, but by default sends you to an un-encrypted page to view and send emails.  I’m not too sure why they do this, but there is a simple hack around it.

If you want to always browse your e-mail with high-grade encryption (AES-256 256 bit),  a more secure encryption than most banks use, just change you Gmail bookmark to point to https://mail.google.com/mail/.  You will be sent to a secure page to login, and once you are authenticated, you session will remain encrypted while you read/send mail.