bee.geek.nz :: easily distracted

Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:50

preview of my Yahoo! Custom sign-in seal ... so I accept the offer

Yahoo! is now offering users a custom Sign-in Seal in an effort to help protect us from phishing sites whenever we login to our Yahoo! services... I think it's a great step

I've seen some excellent Phishing attempts and the idea of having a easy to recognise image of my own choosing is ideal for me... especially as first thing in the morning I'm awful slow on the uptake ... in fact to be completely straight up I'm dead slack when it comes to routine tasks like logging into accounts online which can be pretty ho hum... signing into Yahoo! Mail and my Account services is something I've been doing years now... in fact like most, I can do it with my eyes closed... which isn't a particularly bright thing to do... so I trotted along to make myself a Yahoo! custom Sign-in Seal to cover my bum...

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Sunday, 20 August 2006 11:39

... in rather cool way

After my Gravatar ramblings Simon got in touch to let me know that while the Gravatar 0.2.1 extension by Daniel W. Steinbrook no longer worked with Thunderbird v1.5.0.5 there was one that did... Message Faces 1.1 by Jens Bannmann so I trotted along to check it out.

Select Save Target as to download your Thunderbird extensions Downloading extensions for Thunderbird is a little different to Firefox, Thunderbird requires a hands on approach with a manual install whereas Firefox tends to do it all for you, you just hit Install Now and it does exactly that. With Thunderbird you right click Install Now, then select Save Target as, spring open Thunderbird then hit Tools > Extensions > Install, work your way to the download location, select the .xpi file then hit Install... it sounds long and windy I know but it's just how it is