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Google Tips and Tricks - A couple of options you may not know about when using Google Search;

To search an indexed website use search: before the URL in the search box or use it in a link such as; http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.delphia.co.uk/

To view Google's cache of a webpage enter cache: before the URL in the search box or use it in a link such as; http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:http://www.delphia.co.uk/

Latin Quotes - Some famous and not so famous Latin quotes collected from various sources.

Quote of the Moment - The Quote of the Moment bar at the top of all my pages is fed from a little JavaScript code that chooses a random number, selects a quote based upon that number from a list then displays it within the page.

If you want your own version, put the following code into an HTML page;

...and copy my quotes.js file to the same location as that page...nothing else is needed :)

If you just want to read the quotes they are available as a text list (45k)

Blocking spam in when your name is in the From field and you don't want to block mail from yourself.

1. Send yourself a mail

2. Open Mailwasher

3. Select the message you sent yourself and right-click on it, select preview complete header

4. Look for something unique to your mail; for instance, the 'Received from' header entry usually includes at the end 'helo=UniqueName'.

5. Close the header pane

6. Select Tools, Filters, Add

7. name your filter then ;

a. If you intend to set your own mail address as a 'Friend' you will need to set the priority to allow this rule to override the 'Friends' list

b. The 'Action' should be set to 'Add to blacklist', 'Mark for deletion' and 'Mark for bounce'

c. The 'Apply this filter when' should be set to 'all of the rules below are satisfied'

d. Rule 1 should be The 'From' field contains...(e-mail address)

e. Rule 2 should be The 'Entire Header' does not contain...(your unique tag selected at stage 4)

At stage 4 you can also use your 'X-mailer' or 'X-MimeOLE' header entries in combination (add rule 3 and/or 4 similarly to rule 2) as these will contain signature numbers from your software build and be fairly unique in terms of mail from you (other users may use the same software but this rule only kicks in when your mail address is in the 'From' field).

Neil Walker's javascript calculator - A very smooth calculator, IE only and something I came across when looking for how to implement math functions in JavaScript. Neil also has some other fun stuff including a growing HTML guide at his homepage.

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