For any web design rounded cornered rectangles add a touch of professionalism and beauty. Unfortunately most methods using either JavaScript or layered images do not work very well on all browsers as expected by the designer or the user. Finally there is a nice method which works very well with IE7+ and Firefox 2+ perfectly, [...]
Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category
Ghostery: Finds out what website is watching you
January 28th, 2009
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Ghostery is a plugin for Firefox that alerts you of any “web-bugs” on the websites you visit. A web-bug is a script that tracks your behavior in that site for marketing and “other” purposes. If you visit a site which uses these tracking scripts it will notify you of the scripts by displaying the [...]
Defensio: Outsmarting Evil Spam
December 22nd, 2008
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Akismet is one of the most popular plug-ins for WordPress bloggers to fight against spam, and until now it never has any competitors. But now there is a new technology and very much similar to Akismet called Defensio, well from the FAQ and what they have said about it in their website it looks very [...]
LaptopAlarm helps you against thieves
December 1st, 2008
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Do you happen to leave your laptop unattended at public places such is university or library, maybe just for a minute to say hello to a friend or fetch a cup of coffee and than continue to work on? What if you come back and your laptop is gone, stolen? Well, the best option is [...]
Is something wrong with Windows or with Microsoft?
November 29th, 2008
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Ever since I started being interested in computers I have been reading and listening to the complaints about windows. On the other side there are people who are in love with windows no matter what version. This seems normal for people have diferent tastes and needs, but at the end we all probably share the [...]
How to really speed up computer?
November 23rd, 2008
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When I was buying my laptop all I had in mind was performance. I wanted to have core2duo, 2 Gb of ram, discrete graphic card and Vista operating system. I thought with that specs, especially with core2duo, my laptop would fly with speed. And finally when I got it I had a terrible experience. Laptop [...]
Google patches Chrome 'carpet bomb' bug.
October 25th, 2008
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October 21, 2008 (Computerworld) Google Inc. has patched its Chrome browser to block a months-old bug that can be used to trick people into downloading and launching malicious code. The fix has not been pushed out to most users, however. The security researcher who reported the vulnerability, which involves a combination of the “carpet bomb” [...]
Upgrade WordPress Safely – In Case You Wanted to Rollback
September 9th, 2008
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Recently The new Update of WordPress 2.6.2 arrived and now lot of people are thinking of upgrading and some a scared to upgrade since some plugins might break the site or throw some other kind of conflicts or errors. So I thought of sharing with everyone the method I use to upgrade WordPress. You might [...]
The Most Advanced WordPress Stats Integration – Woopra
August 29th, 2008
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Today, the Woopra team announced their fully finished Woopra – WordPress stats integration plugin 1.30. I tried it out and It was absolutely awesome. The Woopra team has done it again, I wish to thank John and all the Woopra developers for an awesome job well done. Recently a lot of people including me were [...]
WordPress 2.6 Beta 2 is Out
July 2nd, 2008
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Another week, another beta. New in beta 2: Insert image and edit image fixes SSL fixes i18n fixes Lots of new inline documentation Improved tag auto-suggest TinyMCE 3.1.1 with Opera 9.5 and Safari fixes, proper align = center removal, and improved embeds support jQuery UI 1.5.1 See the full list of changes since beta 2. [...]
