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Test Possible Conficker Infection In Your Web Browser

While the Conficker worm did not have the serious impact many assumed it would have on April 1 it is still a threat as millions of computer systems are infected with it. We covered Conficker worm detection and removal instructions in March and would like to add the easiest way of detecting a possible Conficker [...]

Author: , Monday April 6, 2009
Categories: Online Services, Security, The Web

Internet Explorer Bumpers

Browser bumpers is a lightweight portable application for the Windows operating system that interacts with both the Internet Explorer web browser and Windows taskbar. It is based on Fitt’s Law which basically says that the screen edges are easier to hit with the computer mouse. Browser Bumpers takes this concept and applies it to Microsoft’s [...]

Author: , Monday April 6, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Computer Monitor Lighting Software F.Lux

If you ever had to get up late at night to work on a computer system you might have felt blinded by the bright light of the computer screen. You might also have noticed that it took longer to get used to that light than in the morning or during the day. It almost feels [...]

Author: , Monday April 6, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Load your advertisements after your content

I didn’t have much use for loading ads after my content, since on most of my sites and those I worked on, they were near the end of the code anyway, but while working on a site today I ran into a problem. There is an ad at the top of the design which tends [...]

Author: , Monday April 6, 2009
Categories: Revenue Sources, Web Development

Billy a simple but awesome music player

We had a look at how you use your medial player not long ago and I’ve taken a look at some of the ones you mentioned  I particularly liked Billy (thanks for the tip Xaro), a no-frills (but also no complications) music player, which does exactly what I want it to do. Play my music [...]

Author: , Sunday April 5, 2009
Categories: Music and Video, Tools

Enable SATA Hot Swap

Hot Swap, or hot swapping, describes the process of connecting or removing an SATA drive from a running computer system. This hot swap technology has to be supported by the SATA controller and by the hardware driver in the operating system to work. The device specifications should state if the device is how swap capable. [...]

Author: , Sunday April 5, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

Website Value Calculator Stimator

If you are in the business of selling and buying websites and domain names or a webmaster interested in finding out the value of his web projects you are left with a few choices. The short answer of “how much is it worth” is “the money that someone is willing to pay for it”. The [...]

Author: , Sunday April 5, 2009
Categories: Online Services, The Web

Old School Linux Solutions: finger

Back when I first started using Linux nearly all Linux systems were truly multi-user systems. Because of this the finger command was an important tool to keep handy. What finger does is report information on a user. So if you wanted to know the phone number, office number, if the user had mail, etc you [...]

Author: , Sunday April 5, 2009
Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Open Source, Security, Server, Software, Tutorials Basic

Computer Sound Card Analysis

Sound Card Analysis is a portable executable for the Windows operating system that has been compiled from a AHK script by a Donation Coder Member. The tool can be used to analysis the sound cards of a computer system as it displays all kind of information about them in a readable interface. The program will [...]

Author: , Sunday April 5, 2009
Categories: Software, Windows

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