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I use Firefox and Google to do most of my research, and while tabbed browsing is a very useful feature, it still requires that extra bit of work to make searches flow efficiently - especially when I’m searching for different search phrases at the same time. The normal procedure is: [CTRL-TAB],[TAB (to get to firefox's Google search box)][type phrase][enter], and then repeat procedure for each new search tab you want to open. This procedure is clumsy and slow, and keeping track of which tab is for which search is a time consuming, memory wasting, process that no one _needs_ to endure.

To solve this problem, I created one single page that loads up to 3 Google pages at the same time, each with their own search box. This way, I can load up the main page, enter the search phrases I want in each frame, and have all three search frames display results simultaneously. I like that! For lazy people like me, that saves me lots of [ALT-TAB]‘ing and [CTRL-TAB]‘ing.

MultiSearch 3

What’s even nicer is, depending on how your Firefox is customized, I can click a search result and have it open in the frame in which it was found, or simply [left-click] on the result to have it open as a new tab. No more [ALT-TAB]‘ing, [RIGHT-CLICK]‘ing, [MIDDLE-CLICKING]‘ing.

For convenience I’ve created two MultiSearch pages:

MultiSearch 2 - splits a page into two Google search frames, and,

MultiSearch 3 - splits a page into three Google search frames.

Now how cool is that?!

Questions I have are: how well does it work in other browsers, and how does it work on mobile phones.

I’d love some feedback!

I received the following email in my inbox this morning. It’s an interesting article, so I copy-pasted it here, as is, with no alterations.

Fear can stunt your career and personal development

By Anderea Morara

Where things are uncertain, employees may be fearful about a number of things. Some will be worried about losing jobs, getting demoted, not being promoted or simply not getting along with colleagues.

One of the most common manifestations of fear is people’s reluctance to voice their opinion on anything.

They just want to conform to whatever the “official” opinion is. This kind of behaviour is usually the norm in authoritarian or dictatorial states and organisations. However, democratisation is now permeating both Government and non-state organisations and becoming standard practice, and thus there are hardly any substantive autocratic managements.

In a scenario where one cannot voice their opinion; employees are averse to making any move on their own. In other words, employees will not take initiative. They will hang around like zombies until someone in authority tells them what to do, and even how to do it.

The other characteristic of people in this kind of situation is their fear to disagree with anything that they are asked to do by their superiors – even when it is abhorrent to their values and morals. They can even commit crime at the behest of management.

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Born is a page listing more honours mini-theses. As pointed out before, I will be happy to supervise/co-supervise these projects. And the projects on this page will be presented to the 2009 Computer Science students at the University of the Western Cape.

The page is here ( http://www.idigitall.com/honours-mini-theses/ ).

Because I am a Muslim, I am including this post on my blog a sign of support to this cause.

An article on calculating Salaah (Prayer) times to follow soon. I must just add that I’m not sure how exactly this feature (provided by islamicfinder.org) is to be used. I’ve tried all possible configurations for my country, and it just doesn’t produce the correct results. Maybe it’ll work better for yours.

The page Techtools has been born. It contains my compilation of Top-10 Must-have windows techtools. These tools have saved my life on a number of occasions, and while may not be a complete solution, they serve to debug your problem and shed light on it. Some of them can be used in ways that don’t comply with security/usage policies of organizations. And having been a sys admin myself I don’t condone it.

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Honours Mini-Thesis Topic: car counting system

Design an implement a “car counting system” that uses videos of highway traffic as input and extracts the number of cars passing the camera per hour.

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Wow. I’ve actually enjoyed posting on this site - wordpress seems to be, according to look and feel, more conducive to blogging. I installed wordpress yesterday at this domain (idigitall.com) and wrote the first blog post. I’m still getting the hang of it, but from the first day, I already prefer it over Joomla!

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This is a blog about a guy who’s miserable life revolved completely around IT - Information Technology. But now he thinks about sex(*), women and rock and roll!
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