WordPress plugins are in many regards just like Firefox add-ons. You got a few popular ones that most webmasters have installed and then a lot of differences when it comes to the rest. If you have ever looked at one of those “top x” posts about WordPress plugins chance is that you already know the [...]

Every now and then we look back at services that we have reviewed before. Print What You Like was reviewed by us in 2008. It is an online service that allows a user to optimize printing jobs before they are send to the printer. It is limited to optimizing printouts of websites and offers controls [...]

Google Search is the most popular search engine in the world with a market share of at least 60% in most countries. It is therefore only natural that most webmasters optimize their websites for Google Search. Search engine optimization has on the other hand no rulebook where everyone could get the information needed to optimize [...]

One of the many aspects that webmasters need to take care of is to optimize their websites so that users from all over the world can access it without unnecessary delays because of unoptimized contents. One of the things that need to be optimized are pictures that are displayed on the website. Reducing the size [...]

Facebook Lite is currently offered as a public preview. It basically allows registered Facebook users to log into a lighter version of Facebook instead of the standard Facebook page. The advantage of this is that the Facebook lite page requires less resources and should therefor be faster for users accessing it. This can mostly be [...]

Internet users can experience a variety of problems when connecting to websites and using services on the Internet. Some of these problems are related to the user’s Internet connection while others to viruses or unresponsive or slow servers. It is always a good idea to test the Internet connection before contacting the Internet Service Provider [...]

Is an photo or image real or has it been tampered with? That is a question that sometimes needs to be answered not only because of curiosity but also for more important matters like solving a crime or deciding whether to publish a photo in a magazine or paper. The Image Error Level Analysis is [...]

There are two problem categories of Facebook login difficulties. Category one contains problems that are related to the FAcebook page loading only partially or not at all while the second category contain problems related to the Facebook login itself. The first category of problems is usually easier to fix. A not loading Facebook page can [...]

If you are a Facebook regular chance is you have played around with some of the applications offered on the social networking sites. This ranges from the overly popular Farmville game over greeting cards, quizzes to fantasy football and business applications. Applications are anywhere and most users receive regular invitations to participate in yet another [...]

Most Internet users know that a website they visit can access various information about the computer system used to make the connection. This includes the screen resolution, operating system, IP address and web browser among other things. But those are not the only information that can be gathered when users visit a website. What would [...]

An update for the blogging script WordPress has just been released by the development team. The update fixes a security vulnerability that was previously reported by Thomas Mackenzie on his personal blog. The vulnerability affects all WordPress installations with the version number 2.9.0 or later. Previous WordPress installations are not affected by the vulnerability (but [...]

The Youtube test video can help Youtube users who are experiencing problems playing back videos on the popular video hosting website. Some Youtube users for instance mention regular playback problems, often described as stuttering playback which can be analyzed with the test video. Playback problems can have different reasons including connection problems or a slow [...]

Remember Aardvark? The community that was designed around experts that helped other users who experienced problems in their field of expertise? The premise of Aardvark was that every user in the world is an expert in something. Each Aardvark users would be able to ask questions which would then be answered by other users of [...]

Tech savvy computer users enter domain names, which are also commonly known as urls, directly in the web browser’s address bar. Many inexperienced users on the other hand tend to search for the domain that they want to enter by entering the domain name into a search form and not the address bar. An inexperienced [...]

Look it up on the Internet. That’s what most tech-savvy people do if they encounter a problem or run into difficulties. The Internet is a vast resource of knowledge but that knowledge is usually located on different websites. That’s what Richard Ludlow, the founder of Academic Earth, noticed when looking for help in linear Algebra. [...]

Most official ways of watching tv online are only available to visitors from specific countries. This is true for popular services such as Hulu, the BBC and basically any streaming TV services in any country in the world. Third party services on the other hand do not usually face those restrictions which makes them very [...]

Tags are an essential part of nearly every WordPress blog. Webmasters use tags to categorize posts. One side-effect of tagging posts in WordPress is that these tags are sometimes indexed by search engines. Visitors from those search engines will then see a page containing excerpts of the posts that have been tagged with that tag. [...]

Phishing is still one of the biggest threats that users face on the Internet these days. Many security programs and web browsers offer phishing protection but these only catch the known phishing attacks which means that users still have to cope with the unknown attacks until they are identified by the applications. Avira has published [...]

Desktop wallpaper resources are highly popular on the Internet. We previously covered some of the best in our HD Wallpaper listing. Wallbase is a new wallpaper site that hosts a huge selection of more than 370k wallpapers all tagged and sorted to make it easier for the visitor to find and download wallpapers from the [...]

Every once in a while the Ubuntu User Days Developer Team offers classes for Ubuntu users where you can join a chat room and ask your Ubuntu questions. One of those days is (with little warning from yours truly) today. Although IRC is, to many, a rather antiquated tool, others find it incredibly helpful. So [...]

Yesterday, the founder of popular screen-sharing app Mikogo shared with the world that he was threatened to be sued by the city of Mannheim if he does not stop using his twitter name, which is http://twitter.com/mannheim.  His name is Mark Zondler, but he and the company is based in Mannheim. Does any of you think [...]

Flickr is one of the most popular photo hosting services on the Internet with thousands of photos uploaded every minute. Some companies, organizations and networks have decided to block Flickr due to its popularity to prevent their employees from accessing Flickr in those networks during work time. There are basically two options to access Flickr [...]

Google announced today that they will start offering movie rentals at their popular video portal Youtube. The five initial movies from the 2009 and 2010 Sundance Film Festival will be available from Friday on for US Youtube users with additional movies from partners being offered in the following weeks. The limitations of the movie rentals [...]

The Internet can be a very helpful and even rewarding location for researching products before making a purchase. Users find all kinds of information about products like digital cameras online from price comparison websites over digital camera reviews to photos that have been uploaded by owners of those cameras. The Snapsort portal is another resource [...]

A virtual private network serves various purposes. It usually encrypts the traffic between the user and the vpn server increasing the privacy of the user, security of the system and integrity of the data. Many companies use vpn connections to transfer important data to employees or customers. But virtual private networks have other advantages. The [...]

A virtual private network offers several advantages over the normal Internet connection. It increased privacy and data safety by making use of encryption. The VPN provider basically works as a proxy for all Internet traffic. The websites and services that are accessed send the data to the VPN without knowing where the data is really [...]

Some newspapers and other websites display only news excerpts on their website asking the visitor to subscribe to the newspaper or magazine to read the rest of the article. The Wall Street Journal is probably the most popular newspaper that makes use of this subscription system but there are others like the Financial Times. Most [...]

Amazon with its vast assortment of items is one of the preferred online shopping locations for Internet users. Buying items at Amazon is comfortable and its excellent return policy has contributed to its popularity. The popularity of Amazon makes it a target of third party software developers. Wootch, a free software program for the Windows [...]

We reviewed the TV over Internet service Zattoo back in 2007 when it first became in selected countries like Germany or Switzerland and then again when it became available in the United Kingdom. Zattoo offers official TV over Internet unlike other clients like most Chinese TV over Internet programs. The official nature of Zattoo restricts [...]

Many webmasters and system administrators need to know immediately when they websites or servers go down. Downtime can mean that business is lost, that search engines record errors when trying to crawl a website and that first time visitors never come back because the website or service is not loading or displaying error messages. Big [...]

Avira has published a top list of brands that experienced the most phishing attacks in 2009. The top 3 brands according to their chart are PayPal with 32205 threats followed by Chase Bank with 25901 threats and eBay with 18738 threats. Each threat in this case refers to a unique Internet address that was being [...]

The WordPress developers have released version 2.9 of their popular blogging script WordPress which can be downloaded from the official WordPress website. Users who have configured automatic updates can also upgrade to the new version of WordPress from within their blogs. It is however recommended to backup the files and database before initiating the update. [...]

The Usenet can be best described to users who have never come in contact with it as a global forum with hundreds of thousands of groups and the ability for everyone to post and reply. The messages that get posted and read are called articles or posts and they are posted to so called newsgroups [...]

Google Browser Size is a new web service that has been published by Google Labs that can be used to visualize the browser window sizes of users visiting a specific website. The service will display transparent information on top of the website that has been loaded visualizing how much of the website visitors see without [...]

Many Internet users, especially those that have social networking accounts, expose information about themselves but also friends and colleagues on the Internet. Everyone probably read stories in newspapers that cyber criminals are using those information to create false identities or trap friends and colleagues into thinking that they are actually someone they know. What has [...]

If You Have Something That You Don’t Want Anyone To Know, Maybe You Shouldn’t Be Doing It In The First Place. That is what Google’s CEO Erik Schmidt said in a live CNBC broadcast last week. The sentence itself does not make that much sense as there is a huge difference between doing something and [...]

About a week ago Facebook’s own Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter to the community announcing some long awaited privacy changes to the popular social networking website. What most users would not have expected at that time was how controversial these new privacy settings would be. What Mark announced was better privacy for Facebook users. [...]

The social scene has nearly reached critical mass. You can not peak around the internet without seeing its tendrils reaching deep within the fabric of every site you visit. This, of course, can cause problems with your work, school, or group environment. While work is supposed to be done, your users/employees are socializing on Facebook, Twitter, [...]

Youtube is not really optimized for low bandwidth Internet connections nor for slow computer systems like netbooks. Most computer users who access Youtube with that hardware notice that the experience is not as pleasant as it could be. Youtube Feather is a new Youtube Labs project “to serve YouTube video watch pages with the lowest [...]

If there is anything left in the online world that Google is not offering a service for yet chance is that they are working on exactly that service behind the scenes to release it eventually to the public. Or, if they do not develop the service chance is they buy one of the first movers [...]

If you have done much work with Apache then most likely you have experienced a need for enabling the rewrite engine. If you are unfamiliar with the rewrite engine, you can think of it as a means for your web server to literally rewrite urls so they are easier for users to remember. So instead [...]

Have you ever asked yourself which information are accessible to quizzes and applications if you allow them to access your account before taking the quiz to find out if you really know everything about becoming a vampire or which superhero your cat resembles most. Most Facebook users might think that those quizzes receive barely any [...]

Google’s entry as a DNS server provider (read: Google Public DNS) has caused quite a stir on the Internet. Some users have experienced privacy concerns while others have started testing and using the new DNS servers right away. The tests so far were inconclusive leaving the individual user with no choice but to benchmark the [...]

Wikipedia is a popular online encyclopedia that can be a good starting point for researching a specific topic. What Wikipedia sorely needs is a better search engine. Microsoft Powerset is a search engine technology that is powering Microsoft’s own search engine Bing. The Powerset website however is currently being used to demonstrate the Powerset technology [...]

In an open letter to the Facebook community its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, announced some upcoming changes to Facebook privacy settings. The main reason for the privacy changes is connected to the incredible growth of the social networking website. According to Marc the current privacy model of Facebook relies not networks which can be communities, companies [...]

You know Firefox like the back of your hand. You’ve heard tale of Chrome and you know KDE has tried to pawn Konqueror off as their default browser. In the distance you hear Opera calling your name and IE4Lin tries to woo you to the dark side. Browsers, the lot of them. You can’t go [...]

If you have ever asked yourself how Twitter could be earning revenue from their highly popular messaging service then the latest developments at Twitter Japan might have an answer for you. The development, which is already making the rounds on various news sites such as Techcrunch, Connected Internet or Telegraph.co.uk, is apparently limited to Japan [...]

File hosting services such as Rapidshare, Megaupload or Depositfiles are immensely popular on the Internet. They offer a comfortable solution of sharing files with other users over the Internet without having to cope with email attachment size limits which usually make large sized file trades very uncomfortable. Some users want to make sure that their [...]

Orkut introduced a new redesigned homepage at the end of October. The new Orkut as its users like to call it is currently invite only meaning that only those Orkut users who received an invitation to join might do so. Everyone else is left with the old Orkut page for now unless they can find [...]

I switched servers from my old dedicated server hoster Hetzner to Wiredtree back in July this year. There were several reasons for this step but especially the incredible offer that I was able to get, the managed support and the need for a faster server due to recent traffic increases. The deal got me an [...]