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Analyze your website’s meta tags

A great way to see if you are optimizing your site enough is to take a look at your meta tags and your keyword/content focus, A great Website Analyzer page I found shows you a heap of stats apart from these, which will not only allow you to check up on yourself, but also on [...]

Author: , Friday February 29, 2008
Categories: Online Services, Search Engines, The Web

How to assign a specific drive letter to the USB drive

Dante send in this little tip and I thought I would share it with everyone. I have been writing about a program called USB Drive Letter Manager before which made it very easy to assign specific drive letters to USB devices. I mentioned that it is possible to assign drive letters to certain USB devices in Windows using Disk Management as well but did not comment on that further.

Author: , Friday February 29, 2008
Categories: Knowledge, Operating Systems, Windows

The ultimate online jazz community

I loveYouTube, but you have to face it, specific genre sites can be much better. If you want music Imeem may be much better, if you want comedy then go to specific comedy sites like Ebaumsworld and such. Similarly, if you want jazz, go to a genre site like My Jazz Network. My Jazz Network [...]

Author: , Friday February 29, 2008
Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry

Make the Print Key do what it says

Have you ever wondered why the Print key does not do what it’s label says – that is print – but copies a screenshot to the clipboard instead? Why is it doing that ? That’s probably the same thought the developer of Purrint had when he began developing this lightweight application. Purrint changes the default [...]

Author: , Friday February 29, 2008
Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Pimp up your desktop with Avedesk

Avedesk was mentioned on one of my favorite websites Donation Coder and it sounded so incredible that I had to give it a try immediately. One could say that Avedesk adds widgets to your desktop, not the kind of useless widgets like the clock in Windows Vista. I’m talking about widgets that look great and provide enough functionality to justify their presence on the desktop.

Author: , Friday February 29, 2008
Categories: Operating Systems, Spyware, Tools, Windows

Change Display Resolutions Automatically

Did you ever run an application that was designed for a specific resolution on your new shiny 1920×1200 monitor only to find out that it was almost impossible to work with it in that resolution ? I’m not only talking about old DOS games here but also about presentations for instance or applications that have been developed in house. Basically everything that goes full screen automatically could be affected as well.

Author: , Friday February 29, 2008
Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

I’m on Facebook. Now What ?

I did receive another email today asking me about my Facebook user name. I never put much thought into joining Facebook or any other hyped web community. The main reason for this was the question about the why. Why should I join Facebook ? Only to show everyone a list of my friends, to show them what I’m doing ? Will it turn out to be a “I’ve got more friends than you thing” in the end ?

Author: , Thursday February 28, 2008
Categories: Facebook, ghacks

Flickr Wallpaper Search

Flickr hosts an unbelievable amount of images of all sizes on their website. One easy way to search Flickr for Wallpapers is to simply enter the term wallpaper in the search box on the Flickr homepage and browse through the results. Currently more than 260.000 images are found when searching for wallpapers.

Author: , Thursday February 28, 2008
Categories: Entertainment, Online Services

Face in a Hole

It seems to be the tip day of the week because this is actually the third tip I received by email today. Carlos send me the tip, thanks for that. Face in a Hole is a website where you can put your face, or the face of someone else, on well known images. Ever wanted to have the Rock’s muscles, Audrey Hepburn’s body or Wolverine’s claws ?

Author: , Thursday February 28, 2008
Categories: Entertainment, Funny

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