Microsoft Office Add-ins Manager

Martin — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:36:04 +0000

Add-ins are a great way of increasing the functionality of Microsoft Office. Some add-ins are compatible with all Microsoft Office programs while others only work in specific applications such as the email client Microsoft Outlook or the presentation software Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft Office does not however provide an easily accessible interface to manage all add-ins that are currently installed which is why Topalt’s EnableDisable, a startup manager for Microsoft Office add-ins, might come in handy. Not all add-ins are needed all the time and some even slow down the startup or performance of Microsoft Office programs.

The Office add-in startup manager provides the means to disable Microsoft Office add-ins comfortably. The program will display all add-ins, enabled or disabled, that are currently installed in Microsoft Office. It sorts the add-ins in tabs that refer to the Microsoft Office program that they are installed in. Displayed are tabs for Microsoft Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.

The listings contain checkboxes, the startup type of the individual add-in, its name and description. The Office add-in will be loaded if the checkbox is checked. All it takes to disable an add-in is to uncheck it in the program.

EnableDisable might also come in handy to permanently disable add-ins in Microsoft Office in case they are not needed at all. All in all a very straightforward comfortable tool to manage Microsoft Office add-ins.

Tags: access, enabledisable, excel, microsoft-office, office, office add-ins, outlook, powerpoint, word

Google Bot has privileges

Martin — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 06:36:03 +0000

Last year I was describing a way to get into the website Experts-Exchange.com by disguising yourself as the Googlebot. Apparently a similar story makes its way around the Internet these days with a more detailed approach detailing the steps that you have to partake to be identified as Googlebot.

It is not enough to simply change the User-Agent string to Googlebot if the website in question checks for cookies, uses Javascript for detection or compares the IP to make sure it is indeed in Google’s IP range. Using just the User-Agent might work to gain access into some websites but others probably will not work because they perform additional checks.

Here are the five factors that are important:

IP: Use Google Translate to surf the site
User-Agent: Use the Firefox Extension User-Agent Switcher and add the information about Googlebot.
Javascript: Use a Firefox Extension like No Script to turn it off.
Cookies: Use the Firefox Extension Cookie Safe to block cookies that the site tries to set.
Referrer: Use the Firefox Extension RefControl to disable the Referrer.

The website describing the techniques is currently down because it was not able to handle the massive amount of visitors that Digg and other sites sent to it.

Tags: access, disguise, Google, googlebot, paysites

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