Firefox

Typos often happen, even to the best of typists. Unfortunately these typos can be added to the spell check with a simple clicko as you attempt to correct your typo. Fortunately, its relatively easy to fix this mistake, even if it is a bit of a pain.

Connecting an open network and then sending out confidential information over that said network is an invitation to having your information compromised. The best way to ensure that your data is safe is to encrypt the data, but not every site is set up to allow encryption. However, assuming that you have a static IP address and a computer with openSSH configured, you can configure that computer at your home (or elsewhere) to allow you to send web traffic via SSH, in effect making an encrypted proxy.
The command to do this is
ssh -u user -p 22 -D 8080 -Nf hostname

I really don't enjoy using Windows for general purpose things - I'll grant that some special applications require this, and I understand that many businesses use Windows as the only operating system on their network.

Yesterday I finally tired of the horrible things that the flash plugin I was using did to my CPU from time to time. Seeing as I was using the adobe version, I thought it might be worth trying to install one of the open source alternatives.