Anyway, on to the day’s links…

Technology

Firefox address bar tweak (Stops ‘Highlight URL’)
When clicking on the address bar in Firefox, by default, it highlights the entire URL. As a web-developer, nothing is more annoying than having to click multiple times on the address bar to modify a URL. This tweak solves that problem, allowing you to get cursor focus where you need it, first time.

3 launches tenner-a-month data
About time… the cost of mobile data in the UK has been astronomical until now!

Monster.com attack steals user data
Major security breach at Monster.com – around 1.6million records stolen.

Wikipedia Spin Tracker
Very clever use of publicly available data to work out who’s spinning what, from where.

Business

Tech-savvy young lack basic literacy skills
This article highlights some things that I believe anyone wishing to stand out from the crowd needs: An understanding of business operations (and how IT facilitates business), and a grasp of basic language skills (particularly writing, spelling and grammar). No one in business is going to take you seriously if you ‘tlk lyk dis’.