Daily Archives: October 8, 2008

How to Remove Swear Words from Your Online Life

Here’s how, in an age when it’s impossible to view YouTube without encountering the profane and incoherent, to make surfing the web more palatable for grandma or the tykes. Install Firefox. Download the extension FoxReplace. Once it’s installed (and Firefox reloaded), go to the options in Tools/FoxReplace: Select FoxReplace options… You’ll see a window with… Read More »

Beware of The Away Message

By Jeremy Wagstaff There are few things more exhilarating, I suspect, than being able to set your email account to respond with an automated message that says: “I’m on holiday. I won’t be answering your email for a while. I’m going on holiday to Barbados, and Bob Loser, my colleague, is covering for me, so… Read More »