The majority of web developers develop their websites and services locally before they publish them on the Internet. This makes sense in a variety of ways, from saving a lot of bandwidth to faster updating or improved security. Even better, new technologies have made it a lot easier to setup a local web development system [...]

Categories: Software, Web Development, Windows

Web Platform Installer 3.0 simplifies the download of free Microsoft software. The official Microsoft product can be used to install all free Microsoft web based development tools and related applications effortlessly. It therefor aims specifically at web developers, companies and organizations that develop web and Intranet applications on Windows. The application is available for 32-bit [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Weezo is remote access made easy. The server comes as a portable version or installer for the Windows operating system. It basically allows a user to configure remote access to files on a computer system and to run scripts on a web server at the same time. Here is how it works. Weezo will run [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Many web developers run local web servers to test website changes without affecting the live websites on the Internet. They can also be used for numerous other purposes from offering access to files or information in a local network to creating the next Facebook or Google. Whatever it is they allow the developer or user [...]

Categories: Software, The Web, Windows

Websites Cop is a program for the Windows operating system that ensures that a webmaster or system administrator gets notified immediately if monitored files on a web server have been modified. This is done by linking local files to files on a configured ftp server that the program then checks continuously to make sure that [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Internet users have many different options to share files with other users. They can upload files to file hosts like Rapidshare, upload them to a remote web server or ftp server or use a program on the local computer system to share the files with anyone that is connecting to it. The last option to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Opera Unite is a very interesting addition to the Opera web browser that allows Opera users to offer server based services from within the Opera web browser. Stream Media is one of those applications that can be installed and run from within Opera. The application basically allows Opera users to turn their web browser into [...]

Categories: Browsing, Opera

If you buy a website or order a new domain you sometimes want to point it to another web hoster or your own virtual or dedicated server. Most webmasters do this by changing the DNS servers to point to the new server or by pointing the existing DNS servers to a IP. The phase that [...]

Categories: Web Development

I will be moving Ghacks to the new web server today which means that you might experience all kinds of problems with the site including disconnects, display errors, script errors or lack of updates because you are still being redirected to the old web server after the change to the DNS. The new managed server [...]

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