I host my website on shared hosting. My connection is too slow and unreliable to justify running my own server and I have no need to hire a dedicated server or a VPS. Consequently, many other websites are hosted on the same box as mine and I have often wondered their nature. In addition to [...]

Tags: ip, reverse ip, reverse whois, server, servers, shared hosting, web hosting, web hosts, whois
Categories: Online Services, The Web, Tools

I’m a student. I’m also a writer, a researcher, and a number of other things that all seem to involve a ton of research. Particularly that student thing. An increasing number of us, regardless of what we do, rely on the Web to get information, do research, and get work done.
For most of us [...]

Tags: annotation, internet, notebook, online service, organizer, research, webnotes
Categories: The Web, Tools

Computer software packages that can be loaded on an usb device seem to become more common these days. Many experienced computer users maintain a collection of computer troubleshooting and recovery tools on a DVD or removable device which comes in very handy when troubleshooting computer problems. Liberkey is another portable computer software collection that can [...]

Tags: computer software, liberkey, portable, portable software, software, software collection, troubleshooting, usb software, windows software
Categories: Tools, Windows, software

Yesterday I sat down at my main desktop PC to do some work and, out of nowhere, error message after error message popped up informing me the hard drive was at 100% capacity which meant the operating system had no room to write to. This baffled me as I was 100% sure there should have [...]

Tags: file searching, find, Linux, system administration, xargs
Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tools, Tutorials Basic

If you are one of those users who use the two-finger typing technique you might want to invest some time in a typing course to improve your words per minute count. Several free computer typing courses are available on the Internet. One of them is Typing Web’s Online Typing Tutor which can be accessed by [...]

Tags: computer keyboard, online service, online typing course, typing course, typing courses, typing tutor
Categories: The Web, Tools

Evernote used to be a quite little commercial app which a few people knew about. It wasn’t bad, but then someone thought that there was much more potential in a market dominated mostly by OneNote. So they went free and since then it has been booming for Evernote, their newest release will let you use [...]

Tags: blackberry, note taking, notes
Categories: Mobiles, Tools

No matter what hard drive size you have, if you spend a lot of time on your computer, you will fill it up eventually. A lot of times I have 1Gb stuff which I don’t need and can safely throw out, I just never bump into these because they are outside my normal file browsing [...]

Tags: hard-drive, system tools
Categories: Tools, Uncategorized, software