Many webmasters and Internet users host images on so called image hosting websites that allow them to store the images. This process is helpful for users who do not have their personal storage space on the Internet and webmasters who want to save bandwidth by hosting the images remotely. Image hosting sites have received a [...]
10 Wikipedia Encyclopedia Usability Userscripts
Wikipedia; Almost every Internet user has heard that name before and chance is they have been – intentionally or not – on the website of the popular online encyclopedia at least once. Wikipedia is a good starting point to find information about a topic on the Internet. Most users access the site through web searches [...]
How to install eGroupware
Quite some time ago I wrote an article that illustrated how eGroupware could serve as a legitimate Exchange replacement (see my article “eGroupware: Your Exchange replacement has arrived“). I very briefly skimmed over the process of installing this outstanding groupware tool. In this case, skimming will get you nowhere. Recently I revisited the installation of [...]
Track Software Releases With Web Versions
Some software programs make use of an automatic or manual update checker to inform the user about new versions of the software whenever one is available. Most programs execute those checks when they are started on the operating system. Some go a step further and add an updater either to a task scheduler or to [...]
Windows 7 Tweaks Software Overview
Windows 7 tweaks can be applied either manually by manipulation the Windows Registry or by using one of the available tweaking programs that often offer comfortable access to hundreds of configuration settings. Hardcore users might prefer to apply all tweaks manually which has the advantage that they can be sure that it is applied correctly. [...]
Microsoft About Internet Explorer 8 Privacy
A video recently posted on Microsoft’s TechNet Edge website (now unavailable but still available as a cached page) has caused some controversy on the Internet. In the video Microsoft IE product manager Pete LePage compares the Google Chrome way of handling user input in the address bar to Internet Explorer 8′s way coming to the [...]
Spammers Flood Youtube With Junk
It seems that spammers have finally found a new target for their campaigns: Youtube. If you have lately performed a search on the video hosting platform and decided to sort the results by upload data you might have been in for a shock depending on your search query. Searches for popular games or applications for [...]
Microsoft Whitepaper About Internet Explorer 8 Performance
Microsoft has published the whitepaper “Enhancing the performance of Windows Internet Explorer 8″ recently which provides information about Internet Explorer 8 performance issues and how they can be rectified. The company is addressing five general issues that from their experience and statistics affect Internet Explorer 8 performance the most. The whitepaper concludes with two advanced [...]
Google Adds Site Speed To Web Search Ranking Algorithm
The Google Webmaster Central Blog today announced that Google has added a site speed factor to their web search ranking algorithm which effectively another ranking factor that webmasters have to look out for. The information are – as always – rare at this point. According to the blog post the feature was enabled a few [...]