Tim Matheson Blog - Productive Tips and More

Hi all, I would like o take a moment and apologize for the lack of content over the past few months. No I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth and no the blog is not dead so please stop sending me emails about that. I am currently working on developing several web applications using Ruby on Rails which I am just starting to fully understand. This has been consuming most of my time lately and for that I apologize. However I will be posting some more great, productivity packed content soon so hang in there.

Regards,

Tim Matheson

I spoke with Gina Trapani on Wednesday about my concerns on this issue. The problem is that many online shops are using hidden fields in forms to pass information such as pricing, shipping, and quantity to their online checkout systems. Now I love Google Checkout for its sheer simple integration methods, but there is also an option to auto approve the payment and this concerns me. So I am writing to you today to illustrate some of the methods I have came up with which will hopefully prevent this sort of attack. Here are three ways you can circumvent this little flaw in many online stores.
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Foxmarks is a Firefox extension that allows you to synchronize your Firefox bookmarks to another computer. If you are able to run Firefox at work and want an easy way to keep your bookmarks in order then this is for you. Foxmarks requires you have an account to use it. The account is free and allows you to use it virtually anywhere you have Firefox and Foxmarks running.

The Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer automatically synchronizes your bookmarks between two or more computers running Firefox. It also lets you access your bookmarks from any computer anytime via my.foxmarks.com.

Foxmarks