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Simple Browser Tricks - Go back or forward in a new tab

Tabbed browsing is usefull enough on it’s own, but there are a few simple tricks that make it even more so. I find that the most useful trick for me is to open the previous page in a new tab. This is done by simply holding down the “Command” key while clicking the back button (or selecting back from the contextual menu).

This also works with the forward button. Any link you click on can be opened in a new tab by holding down command when you click the link. If you want to view an image in a new tab follow the same pattern with the “View Image” or “View Background Image” commands accessed via a right click or a “Control” click.

Having a bad drive day


Having a bad drive day

Originally uploaded by Malagent

As a technician, system administrator and all around super geek, I have told others over and over again to back up their data. Sometimes my own advice is a bit hard to follow, ya know how it is - you get busy looking through Flickr, debating politics or whatever and the next thing you know. ZAP, just like that, all your really important irreplaceable data that you just happen to need right now is gone.

This normally would not be an issue for me, but this drive is not usually on my Mac protected by the Leopard’s Time Machine. This drive comes from a Windows 2003 Server from my little data center. At least the Mac is letting me copy the data whereas Windows just freaks out and goes into a BSOD spewing tantrum.

So there they sit, billions and billions of useless ones and zeros doing nothing but making me mad.

So I’m off to wait on 280GB of data to copy (I wonder how long I’m gonna waste burning 64 DVDs?) so I can rip this damn drive out and smash it to pieces with a hammer. Then I will kick myself a few times for failing to practice what I preach. Oh, and don’t forget to back up your data, you never know when you are going to learn the meanings of MTBF, MDT, and MTTR.