Skipscreen is a popular Firefox add-on that will automatically skip unnecessary screens on file hosting websites like Rapidshare, Megaupload or Mediafire. It will automatically bypass those screens to make it easier for the user to download the hosted contents. Skipscreen has now been ported to the Google chrome web browser by another developer. The extension [...]
How to use Autotrash to totally forget about the trash
The trash (or “Recycle bin”) is a sane concept of our operating systems. A file sent to the trash can be recovered if the user realizes the file was still needed after all. Now, the problem is: when should you empty the trash? If you never empty it, it grows and wastes valuable disk space [...]
Discover New Music With Muzic
The Internet has made it easier to discover new music. This is actually not limited to music as it is also possible to find new book authors and books, video games or movies that you have never heard before. We are concentrating the discovery in this report on music, more specifically music from artists that [...]
WordPress Hack Terrifies Webmasters
Reports about a WordPress hack affecting self-hosted WordPress blogs have appeared on the Internet in March. The hack seems to affect WordPress 2.9.2, the latest version of the blogging platform. To make matters worse there seem to be two – possibly unrelated – issues that webmasters experience. One is a malware attack that is spreading [...]
Creating your header.inc.php for eGroupware
My past post instructed you (minus the “j” – thank you Simon) how to begin the process of installing eGoupware. That article was primarily about getting the requirements out of the way so you can begin the real installation process. That time is nigh, and in this article I am going to continue on with [...]
CDN Activated
Google recently announced that site speed has been added to the signals that they use in their ranking algorithms. Site speed is currently only factored in on google.com if the search is performed in the English language. The new signal has been added to the algorithm a few weeks ago (some webmasters say as early [...]
Do your own awesome vector posters with Inkscape & potrace
This article will cover a very powerful but little advertised feature of Inkscape. If you don’t know it, Inkscape is a free vector graphics editor, counterpart of Adobe Illustrator (like GIMP is Photoshop’s counterpart for raster graphics). This feature is Inkscape’s vectorization tool, made possible by the integration of potrace.
Google Maps Locator For Google Chrome
Google Maps is one of the top choices for many Internet users who have to find an address on a map or get directions to a specific location. Websites and services often use an embedded version of the map application to provide their visitors with direct information on how they can reach the location. But [...]
How To Clean Hard Drives In Windows 7
A regular computer maintenance task should be to clean the hard drives to free up disk space and remove old data that is no longer needed. This can be done in Windows 7 with the help of third party tools like CCleaner which have been designed for that exact purpose or manually by using native [...]