Photographers’ rights

Photographers, know your rights: attorney and photographer advocate Bert P. Krages II has created The Photographer’s Right, a PDF file meant to be printed, stowed in your camera bag and distributed in the event of a confrontation. …

Quick dictionary lookup

My high school English teacher always said, “If you don’t know a word, look it up.” A few quick ways to look up a word (say “virago”) in your web browser:

  • Firefox users: type dict virago in the address bar where web site addresses usually go. You’ll be magically transported to dictionary.com’s definition of the word.
  • From a Google search box: type define:virago and you’ll get definitions from various sources on the web.

Weblogger Firefox tools

Blogger Phillip Torrone at the previously-mentioned Make magazine weblog posts about how he customizes Firefox to post to his MovableType weblog. Using a combination of extensions – including spell-checker Spellbound and the Signature extension which can insert blocks of repeating…