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It just so happens that Tanner Morrison has written a great article about how best to configure Firefox (and its goldmine of add-ins) so that, when traveling you can have complete access to your instant messengers, twitter, Gmail accounts regardless of whose computer you’re using.

The article forgets to remind readers that by visiting Portable Apps you can download a version of Firefox that you can install and run from a USB drive. If you do this and follow Morrison’s advice you should have no problem setting yourself up with a functional workstation on any computer you get access to.

I have a lot to add to this article, but until I do so, it covers enough to get everybody started.

Keep Your World Together With Firefox :

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[Software: Windows / Mac / Unix, FREE]

I was discussing the idea of remote working with a programmer friend of mine and he lamented about how one of his days was disrupted because a particular password was embedded in a Windows Messenger chat log on his home computer and he couldn’t access it from where he was working.

The solution to this seems to be a free program called Dexrex which has versions for Windows, Unix and OS X.

Dexrex works in the background and logs all your messenger chats to your online account that you can access at any time.

I’ve been using it for the last few weeks and it’s working great.

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