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In the discussion about governmental surveilance, telecommunications data retention, and fighting terrorism in Germany everybody, not only citizens of Germany, should be aware of that also your email communication is affected. Not only the connection data (who correspondet with whom when) is concerned, but also, based on the so called TKÜV all providers with more than 1000 customers/accounts have to implement a special interface for government agencies to divert the contents of email communication and save it there. Even if you, like German Minister of the Interior Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble, can say that you are “decent” (german: anständig), for sure nobody is pleasured knowing that potentially every single email could be saved and analyzed by strangers without his knowledge.
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This time I have a really cool Plugin for Apple’s Address Book: Google Maps.With this plugin you can get maps and directions to a location directly from within the Address Book. In the context menu of an entries location field you find additional entries for the Google Maps service.

If one of those options is selected, your standard browser opens a new window with the corresponding Google Maps page.Rating:

To continue with Safari-Plugins we’ll now present SafariStand.

The Stand-Menu located in the Safari-Menubar allows to quickly change the character-encoding of the viewed page as well as activating or deactivating the Stand-Sidebar.

Stand-Sidebar shows previews of all open tabs of the active browser window to have an overview of opened sites.

The plugin is configurable with a seperate configuration panel, accessible view the Stand-Menu. See the Standbar and Quicksearch configurations below.

The Quicksearch function allows to access configurable searchengines via shortcuts in the standard adressbar of Safari. The configuration of Stand-Sidebar allows to change the visible part of the opened tabs.

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The first test is about a small extension (input manager) to Safari, Apple’s web browser included in OS X: Inquisitor 3.0Inquisitor changes the behavior of the integrated search field to use the Google API for auto completion – Spotlight for the web. While inputting the search terms Google is contacted – the results you get sometimes change with every character you expand your terms

The plugin extends Safari’s settings dialogue with a further site called “Search” to setup the search options (e.g. use localozed Google sites like google.de, number of results to display, behavior of Google’s auto completion, …):

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