I thought I compile all the latest changes and new features in one big announcement instead of writing a single article for each of them. I have added two features to ghacks which might be useful to some visitors at least. The first is that I enabled WAP access to ghacks which enables users with mobile devices to read the latest news right from their device.

The second new feature is a print function. It is not working correctly yet but I’m in contact with the author and the issue will be fixed soon. The print function which is available on all single articles pages makes it possible to print the content of the articles without the sidebars.

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You might have noticed that I added so called avatars to the comments that you write. I thought it would be nice to personalize ghacks a little bit more and add avatar support. All you need to do to add your own avatar is to visit mybloglog and register for a free account there. This is not only helpful for my site but all sites that support this option. Everton from connected internet uses the same system for example.

Registration is free and simple. Add a screen name, your email and a password and you are ready to use their system. You could use one use emails to register there if you like but I don’t think this is necessary. The last thing that needs to be done is to upload an avatar to mybloglog and it will be displayed on all websites that you visit that support it. You can also add code to your own website if you have one to personalize it as well.

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It is Sunday again, time for the most interesting posts that I wrote during this week. It was a eventful week, I setup a web proxy server which is currently running in an open beta test. Everyone may use it to connect to blocked websites from the network at work or at his school / university. I need feedback to evaluate the proxy and decided if it should leave beta and be the proxy of choice.

This time we have some nice Firefox memory tweaks and a great extension that randomized the homepages that are set in Firefox. Next to that a quality website with 8000 free wallpapers, a comparison of Joost and Babelgum and a bootlogo generator for Vista.

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Man is it Sunday already ? It seems that this week passed so fast, maybe because I was ill the last two days and slept a lot. Forced myself to continue my daily rhythm of writing articles which surprisingly worked very well. Without further ado, here are the most interesting articles - based purely on my choice - of the last week.

I really hope you are enjoying coming to my site and reading - most - articles. If you ever want a special article that focuses on a problem that you experience let me know. You can post questions like this in the ghacks forum or use the contact option on top of page.

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Today was the last day where people could vote for their favorite website idea and I’m happy to announce the winner of the competition. The winner of the competition is Nick who wanted to create a site for sheet music that made it easy to search the internet for free sheet music integrating all the free sites into one repository that is available to everyone on the internet.

Nick’s idea received 46% of all votes followed by Tash’s with 28% and Todds’s with 11% of all votes. Nick will receive a free domain name of his choice and a webhosting account paid in advance for one year. Nick if you are reading this contact me with your paypal address. I might introduce a new competition soon, stay tuned.

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