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Anonymous Pro Free Font from Mark Simonson Studio

While surfing around today checking out an ARS article on the demise of the Monaco font I discovered this very readable and clean OS X and Windows font.  The font, Anonymous Pro is a free download and can be grabbed at here: Anonymous Pro.

The download contains 4 variations of the font.  You will notice that it is very easy to work with courtesy of the differentiation of the O and 0, 1 and l so on.  Check it out.

Mark Simonson Studio / Notebook: Anonymous Pro Now Available.

I found a broken link online referring to this and with a little big of digging got the correct address.  This tool provides an abstraction layer to your WiFi card under XP that allows you to create multiple virtual wireless cards.

With this tool you could connect to multiple wireless networks simultaneously and ever create profile specific NICs.  Follow the link below for more details and the download.

Microsoft Research Virtual WiFi – Microsoft Research.

Now that I have had a chance to use the most recent version of Firefox (3.0.3 at the time of this writing) I figure that this would be a good opportunity to list my favourite extensions that will help you to enhance, secure or otherwise improve your experience.  Please check out my top 3 addons after the fold.

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I stumbled across this one lat night… This one screams fun!!!  Next to the store to try and locate an appropriate 1970’s light fixture/lamp and then to the grocery store.

This video is courtesy of the Household Hacker and YouTube

One of the latest apps to be forged by the Mozilla team is Prism.  It is an effort to move web applications out of your browser and turn them into (essentially) self-contained applications.

Prism (formerly, Webrunner) is a prototype application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

Mozilla Labs Blog » Featured Projects

It does this by creating a browser instance that is dedicated to one purpose only.  Be it Facebook, GMail, Hotmail or Twitter.  Setting it up an "App" is a breeze.  It is as easy as entering a URL (web address), a title, browser features to include and where you want links installed.

Click below to view the rest of the post including screen caps of creating Prism Apps.

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With a little bit of work I have been able to add photos from my Gallery2 install into a widget in the WP sidebar.

Currently I am showing random images from the site, though I have yet to see if it is going to honour permissions (with the synchronized WP users).  I was able to do the install with the help of the FAQs and information from the Gallery site (http://codex.gallery2.org/Integration:WPG2).

On the whole the installation was pretty painless and went quite smooth.  The only issue I had was with the provider and my lack of an ssh shell to work with on my account.  This brought on the fun of uploading a few thousand files from the "bells and whistles" download version I grabbed.

The gallery can be seen at http://gallery.iambryan.net in all its glory.  You will require a user account to view anything past the wallpaper section (you will find a link to register on the site)

If you have any questions on the details with the installation or would like some help feel free to drop me a comment or an email.

Cheers