Saturday February 4th 2012

Posts Tagged ‘Technology’

What Steps Have You Taken To Prevent Identity Theft?

What Steps Have You Taken To Prevent Identity Theft?

Having our website or blog hacked by some lowlife scum would have to be one of our greatest fears. There are many ways that they could do this including placing malicious code on the blog, linking to sites of disrepute or horror of horrors corrupting the database causing us to lose everything. All that hard work gone to waste! There is [...]

Automatically Backup Data Online Free With Dropbox

Automatically Backup Data Online Free With Dropbox

Dropbox is a great way to auto-update or backup Gigabytes of data online for free, which you can retrieve from the internet wherever you go. Just install the quick-setup package and you’re ready to auto-sync/backup up to 10GB of data on your account. On signing up with a referral link like http://www.getdropbox.com/ you get an additional 250MB, [...]

Page Speed Test, Webmaster Tools And SEO

Page Speed Test, Webmaster Tools And SEO

You all probably know by now that page speed is an important ranking factor for determining your position on search engine rankings. While this is true, I am of the opinion that more important than this is to provide your readers with the best possible user experience and having your website load quickly not only achieves that but also avoids [...]

WinX DVD Author – Free DVD Authoring Software

WinX DVD Author – Free DVD Authoring Software

There are a lot of free CD/DVD burning software available on the Internet that will let you rip CDs and DVDs, burn files into CDs or DVDs but when it comes to DVD authoring software (creates a DVD video capable of playing on a DVD player), it’s hard to find a good free version. So today, I’m gonna share with you a reliable and free DVD [...]

My Top 5 Firefox Add-Ons

My Top 5 Firefox Add-Ons

The best thing I love about Firefox is how you can customize it to do so many things for you. You can set it up to track stuff for you. You can set it up to connect with social media sites. You can set it up so you can change both the look of the browser and certain websites you visit. There’s just so much, thousands of things, that I [...]

WordPress 3.0.3 Security Release

WordPress 3.0.3 Security Release

Just a week after they released the WordPress 3.0.2 security update, the WordPress dev team has released another security update early this morning – WordPress 3.0.3. This security update is mandatory for all previous versions of WordPress. Read full story on WordPress 3.0.3 Security Release

Gravatar Hovercards

Gravatar Hovercards

Early this year, Gravatar added full profiles which enables Gravatar users to add contact information (email, instant message & phone numbers), links to social network profiles (Facebook, Twitter, Del.icio.us, LinkedIn, etc.) and blog/website links to their Gravatar profile. If you liked the full profiles and thought they were cool, wait [...]

Why Newbies Should Use Linux

Why Newbies Should Use Linux

Microsoft has made a huge profit off of people who don’t consider themselves to be technically proficient. That particular demographic tends to be afraid of downloading and installing new software. Why do they surf the web with Internet Explorer?  Because it’s the web browser that was pre-installed with their OS. Graphic courtesy of [...]

HowTo: Install Adobe AIR on Ubuntu

HowTo: Install Adobe AIR on Ubuntu

I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala a few days ago. I know its a bit late, but the reason why I didn’t do it earlier was because I didn’t want to mess up my customized Ubuntu “Mac” desktop. What made me decide to do a fresh install was because my old Ubuntu partition was only 5 GB and I was already running out of space. This [...]

Create A Strong And Unique Password

Create A Strong And Unique Password

Making a good online password is today one of the most important aspects that we need to be aware of, specially if we have a strong presence on the Internet, or online if you prefer. Like anyone using the online world today, we have most likely a lot of accounts that need passwords. Bank accounts, social networks, new startups we might consider [...]

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