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Install mod_security for better Apache security

Recently I wrote an article to help you secure your Linux Apache Installation (see "Five ways to help secure Apache on Linux"). In that article I mentioned using Apache's mod_security, but didn't […]

Advanced Sorting In Microsoft Outlook

Microsoft Outlook users can sort emails and other messages in the email client by clicking on one of the column titles at the top. That's a pretty common way of sorting emails […]

Download All 4chan Pictures With 4chan.org Dumper

You either hate or love 4chan, the popular anonymous image posting bulletin board. It is basically an image posting forum with the ability to post replies that also include images. The website […]

Raid Data Recovery Software Raid 2 Raid

Problems with a raid setup are often very hard to fix, especially if the user is inexperienced when it comes to it. This can be the case for instance if the raid […]

Gmail Increases Email Security With Phishing Protection

Phishing is still one of the biggest security threats that users face on the Internet.  The term refers to attempts to steal account passwords by impersonating other organizations or users. Criminals send […]

Create Website Tours With Virtual Tour Software Amberjack

Virtual tours can be a very effective way of guiding website visitors who are new to the site around. This can help them understand the offerings and navigation of a website and […]

Five ways to help secure Apache on Linux

Apache is one of the most popular web servers available. And most Apache installations are running on Linux servers. Anyone running Linux will tell you that the operating system (be it on […]

Create Image Thumbnails In Windows Explorer

It is not only web designers who need to create image thumbnails regularly. There are many situations where image thumbnails come in handy starting from blogging and publishing websites to PowerPoint presentations […]

Automatically Send MySQL Database Backup To Gmail

Webmasters have to make sure that their websites and files are getting backed up regularly to be prepared when something unforeseen happens. This unforeseen event can be a hacker attack, a database […]

Web Browser Backup And Restore

The importance of web browsers has risen in past years especially with the shift from desktop applications to web based applications and services. Web browsers are not just tools anymore only that […]

How To Download Files From The Internet The Secure Way

Everyone who uses an Internet connection is downloading files from there. It can be automatic file transfers like downloading new emails or filling the browser cache when opening new websites but also […]

Google Needs Standards Too

After taking a look at the latest set of devices and gadgets to make it to the market, one thing is becoming clear. We are in desperate need of some gadget standards. […]

Power Supply Calculator

You need to be aware of a few issues if you are building your own computer system or checking out pre-configured systems. Two of the most important issues are hardware compatibility and […]

Use Drive Manager To Manage And Identify Drives

Drive Manager is a portable software program for the Windows operating system that helps users manag and identify connected drives. Drives in this regard is every hardware device with its own drive […]

How To Save Files In Different Formats

Users who want to create a bat file usually start by creating a text document in Windows and change the file extension afterwards to bat. The same principle is used when creating […]

Two New Google Trends Features

Google Trends is a service by Google that displays the popularity of search terms in the Google search engine over time. Users can compare search terms with each other to get an […]

Internet Explorer New Tab Page In Firefox

You are presented with several choices if you open a new blank tab page in Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8. Internet Explorer users have the option to open recently opened websites, start an […]

Analyze Computer Systems With Kaspersky's GSI Parser

The report then needs to be uploaded to the GSI Parser website once the report has been generated. The online parser will analyze the report and display various information about the computer […]

Encrypting email in Claws Mail

YACMA (Yet Another Claws Mail Article). Recently you may have taken a look at my Claws Mail articles: "Claws Mail: The unsung powerhouse email client." and "Claws Mail: Must have plugins." Hopefully […]

A standard compliant web browser and editor: Amaya

Some web browsers don't fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst […]

Create Access Log File In Windows

If you are sharing a desktop computer with several users you might be interested in knowing the login and logout time of each user on the system. It could also be interesting […]

Speed Up Firefox By Limiting The History

The Firefox web browser will save visited websites for a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 180 days in the Firefox history by default. The hard limit is set to […]

Setting up a Dual-Boot – Just the Tutorial to Help

Until a couple of months ago, I didn't know much about dual-booting. Yes, I knew it meant running two OS's on one machine but beyond that, not much else. So when I […]

Optimize SQLite Databases In Firefox

The Mozilla Firefox development team has changed the way the web browser stores information to SQLite databases in Firefox 3. Cookies, Bookmarks, RSS feeds and many other information are now stored in […]

Windows 7 RC To Final Upgrade Possible

I'm pretty excited about the upcoming launch of Windows 7, Microsoft's next operating system. Not only because I'm running a very successful Windows 7 blog but also because I finally have the […]

Microsoft Outlook Twitter Add-on

It is not seldom these days that popular web services get integrated with other popular applications or services to offer a more comfortable way of working with both services. Twitter is one […]

Create message filters in Claws Mail

You may have read my recent article about Claws Mail ("Claws Mail: The unsung powerhouse email client."). If you've given it a try you will have noticed just how powerful that email […]

German Web Censorship Law Passed

The German Federal Criminal Office has the authority to add new websites and domains to the list. A website can for instance be added instantly if it is hosted outside of the […]

Recover Computer System After Malware Infection

Update: The program IClean has last been updated in 2007. While it may still work on your system, it is highly suggested to user a different program for the job. You can […]

Why Google Chrome OS Will Have No Huge Impact

Many news websites, bloggers and even conventional news sources such as newspapers or TV news have reported about the Microsoft killer Google Chrome OS, the cloud based operating system by Google that […]

Movie Database Software MBase 2

Probably the best way of managing and maintaining a movie collection is to make use of a movie database software. We have covered several software programs in the past like the video […]

Mouse Cursor Disappearing Frequently In Firefox, Internet Explorer And Opera

Roman send me an email yesterday about a problem that he researched the other day. He noticed that the mouse cursor in every Firefox tab was disappearing and appearing again with no […]

Check HTML With CSE HTML Validator Lite

Webmasters need a local html file so that it can be loaded into the software program. The easiest way to achieve this is to go to the website that should be validated, […]

Improve Online Reading With Readability Bookmarklet

Online reading is not the same as reading a newspaper, book or magazine. The main reason why it is not the same is the many formatting options that webmasters have to display […]

Block Websites From Appearing In Firefox History

There are many users who like to use the history of their web browser, as it provides them with faster access to websites, as well as a way to find websites again […]

Identify The Digital Camera A Photo Was Taken With On Flickr

Flickr is probably the most popular photo hosting and sharing on the Internet with thousands of new photos posted to the site every minute. It is great for discovering photos and locations […]

Android vs. webOS

So far we’ve heard quite a bit of comparisons between the webOS platform and OSX (for the iPhone), as well as Android vs. OSX. But so far, comparisons between both Android and […]

Linux Tips: Handy ways to grep

The grep command is one of the handiest Linux commands you will use. The grep utitility was originally writing for UNIX and stands for Global Regular Expression Print. What grep does is […]

Google Talk Autoreply

Google Talk is not only used by individuals who want to chat with their family, friends and relatives but also by businesses who use it to communicate with customers and for internal […]

Search British Newspapers From 1800-1900

The Internet offers many people a chance to access resources and information that they could otherwise hardly - if at all - obtain. One interesting source of information is the British Newspapers […]