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Jul 3

Today's Featured Post

Friday

(Note: If you are running Windows XP or Vista legally, this article does not apply to you.)
I’m not going to pretend for a moment that there’s more than a few of you out there running Windows XP illegally. You’ve seen the very nice $50 price tag of Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade and said, "Okay, [...]

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Jul 4

Take Control Of Your Cookies

If you like to take total control over your browsing session which means controlling individual cookies, then a Firefox add-on you need is CookieSafe.
This extension will allow you to easily control cookie permissions. It will appear on your statusbar. Just click on the icon to allow, block, or temporarily allow the site to set cookies. [...]

Jul 3

Web Stats: Log File Analysis Is Still Most Accurate

A couple of days ago, I posted about Piwik which is a Google Analytics alternative. These two gather information the same way: via javascript. While this is gives great insight into your visitors, it is not 100% reliable because of script blockers. Basically, if a visitor is running a script blocking utility (i.e. NoScript), unless [...]

Jul 2

Send A Fax For Free Over The Internet

Every now and then we all have the need to send a fax. Whether it is for important [fill in the blank] forms with your signature or you simply need to send a ‘paper copy’ of something instantly, fax is still a standard for transferring documents. If you don’t have a fax machine and do [...]

Jul 2

Deleting Specific Web Accounts [How-To]

Some sites make it easy (more or less) to delete your account if you don’t feel like using it any longer. Others however make it exceedingly difficult.
Recently I was going thru my password manager and realized there were a ton of accounts I simply didn’t use anymore, so I figured I’d get rid of them. [...]

Jul 1

Self Hosted Web Site Analytics

One of the more popular tools among people who run their own web sites is Google Analytics. Rightfully so as it is able to track just about anything you want. The only problem with Google Analytics is that you don’t own your own stats. Google keeps all the data on their servers and you access [...]

Jul 1

Is Firefox 3.5 Worth Using?

I don’t think there’s any denying that Firefox 3.5 is late to the party concerning other browsers have had features (like private browsing) FF is only getting now. Regardless, here’s my real-world review on it.
Instead of getting into the super-techy details on this I’m going to concentrate on what most would care about.
Will 3.5 break [...]

Jun 30

Firefox 3.5 (Stable) Is Now Available

Today’s tip will be a quick one as the much anticipated Firefox 3.5 is now available for download.
This new version boasts a faster javascript engine, HTML 5 support, private browsing and overall faster performance. If you are interested you can read about all the changes here.
Before upgrading, make sure all the add-ons you use are [...]