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WhatTheFont: Find font used in a logo or image 2008-06-04 19:54:12 Stumble upon an inspiring logo but clueless about font being used on the beautifully crafted logo? Or perhaps you might wonder what font is being used on Google logo? To recognize precisely what fonts being used on an image is almost impossible as there are enormous number of fonts in existence and they keep counting.
WhatTheFont [...]
List of Social Bookmarking Plugins in Firefox 2008-06-03 09:21:16 Social bookmarking is becoming more popular and it can be seen from the emergence of hundreds of new social bookmarking sites all over the net. With hundreds of them, efficient submission becomes demanding and this explains why there are several services on the net offer to do the submission on our behalf at a certain [...] Read more:Firefox
, Social
, Bookmarking
, Plugins
, Social Bookmarking
HappyChecker: How to detect Rapidshare Happy Hour on Firefox 2008-05-24 03:01:09 If you follow my blog, I’m sure you still remember about Rapidshare Happy
Hour checker. Even though it’s small in size, it requires you to install Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5. It’s not really a problem but it takes extra steps before it can be fully functional. In this post, I would like to share with [...] Read more:Firefox
, Happy Hour
How to Turn Off Laptop or Notebook LCD Monitor Manually 2008-07-25 08:27:55 Turning off laptop LCD screen can be done via “Power Options” in Windows where the monitor can be set to be off after x amount of minutes. This is extremely useful especially when you about to leave it overnight, say when are downloading something big. There are times though when you feel like to turn [...] Read more:Laptop
, Notebook
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Download FREE Norton AntiVirus 2009 Beta 2008-07-25 05:30:25 I’m not really a fan of Norton
Antivirus due to its extensive use of memory but I’m sure some of you got high end computers to deal with it. According to Norton memory hogging problem is thing of the past because it claims the new Norton Antivirus 2009 & Norton Internet security 2009 are overhauled [...] Read more:Download
, AntiVirus
FREE Full License of System Mechanic 8 2008-07-23 12:17:11 After Iolo Technologies gave away Free 1 Year Iola Antivirus Genuine License
Key, it comes back with a new giveaway, this time, SystemMechanic
8. For those who might not know what System Mechanic is, it is a very useful software for computer users to maintain your computer in tip top condition. It helps in [...]
Download and save Youtube videos with a single right click 2008-07-23 06:30:18 Unlike Firefox which is consistently swamped by the abundance of useful plugins to improve user experience, Internet Explorer is a long way off from providing such things to its users. While “useful plugins” rarely found in Internet Explorer, it is really a gem if you can find a hack on how to ease up certain [...] Read more:Download
, videos
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Wordpress 2.6 is out! Download now 2008-07-22 15:57:49 Yeah, I know it’s been a week since its release but it doesn’t stop me from writing about another milestone in wordpress development. This new Wordpress
2.6 does not only fix up several security issues but also brings a lot new features and functionalities. There aren’t many interface changes though but every little thing like [...] Read more:Download
Internet Broadband Provider: Which One is Better? 2008-08-08 20:31:13 NTL and BT were the only internet broadband providers available in Belfast 5 years ago. Although I knew BT provided superb services, I still picked NTL over BT because it offered virtually no installation fee. As time goes by, the bandwidth capacity is getting bigger while the monthly fees remain more less the same throughout [...] Read more:Internet
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How to remove fake Antivirus 2008 2008-08-06 08:51:43 I didn't know where it came from, it happened to be in my taskbar last night, doing some fake scan and listed down thousands of made up trojan and viruses. I wasn't surprised because I forgot to install back any antivirus. Yeah I uninstalled Avira a week ago because there's conflict when I was about [...]
Free Up Your Drive Space by Removing Duplicate Files 2008-08-02 07:58:16 My 200 GB external hard drive had reached its bottleneck with the additions of TV series Chuck and it's time to do housekeeping; removed unnecessary files & old videos etc. There were not so many files I was willing to remove, so I need to scrutinize a little bit harder (which folder takes up significant [...] Read more:Space
, Duplicate
SearchStatus: Firefox Extension to Examine Sites Performance 2008-08-01 16:19:29 I'm always curious about performance of websites I visit and that explains why I installed Alexa plugin and Google pagerank bar. They are, however, only related to alexa ranking and Pagerank. On top of that, with more Firefox
extensions need to be installed, this will somehow contribute to excessive memory consumption on Firefox.
SearchStatus is a [...] Read more:Performance
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How to Disable Restart After Installing Windows Update 2008-07-31 18:59:33 Automatic Update
s is an integral part of Microsoft Windows
that allows important security updates from Microsoft server to be downloaded and installed automatically. When the download and installation process is done, it will ask whether we want to restart now or later. The problem arises when we choose to restart later. A Windows Update popup [...] Read more:Disable
, Restart
Firefox plugin: View PDF files as HTML 2008-07-31 15:09:51 As many documents are documented in PDF format nowadays, I always look for lighter PDF reader such as Foxit Reader to open PDF documents. While everything seems to be on the right place there's only one feature I would like Firefox
3 to have; to open PDF file in the Firefox itself. This appears contrary [...] Read more:files
Enable HTTPS on Gmail to further enhance security 2008-07-31 03:44:57 After few issues related to Gmailsecurity
that exposed Gmail users to hijack attempts, Google has been consistently taking necessary measures to beef up and tighten the GMail security. Recently, Google has introduced SSL (secure socket layer) feature or secured connection in Gmail. This is extremely important especially when you are using internet connection on [...]
Iphone killer - Nokia 5800 Tube Leaked Photos 2008-07-30 06:21:55 Nokia confirmed, after the release of iPhone 3g, that they are working on touchscreen symbian phone codenamed as "Nokia Tube". Here are 3 leaked pictures of the dubbed iPhone killer, the Nokia Tube phone. 111mm × 52mm × 14.5mm in dimension and weighing at 104 grams, the Nokia 5800 Tube features some of the [...] Read more:Nokia
Download FREE 1 year Norman Parental control 2008-07-29 20:20:55 With consistent expansion of digital information, internet becomes a gigantic library with all the information available at your fingertips. This boundless world creates enormous impact on our life and unprecedented milestones to many industries. E-Commerce, online fraternizing, cross-country collaboration in medicine, education and many more are among the endless list of things that are [...] Read more:Download
, Norman
, Parental
Install fonts in Windows with a single right click 2008-07-29 03:46:50 In order to install a new font, say for Photoshop editing or for whatever reason, we need to open Control Panel > Fonts and we need to copy & paste new fonts into the "Font Folder". That's how it works on Windows
XP. This is not really a convenient process if you need to to [...] Read more:single
Object Fix Zip: Recover corrupt ZIP archive files 2008-07-28 09:58:30 Usually big files
with the size of more than 100MB need to be separated to smaller chunks, say 100MB each (for Rapidshare) where you need to download all of them before you can unzip the original ZIP file. Unfortunately, there are times where one or more of them get corrupt. When I first came across [...] Read more:Object
Make Money with Ebay Partner Network (EPN) 2008-07-27 17:38:34 When I first registered with Ebay Partner
network (EPN) back in April 2008, EPN had already moved out from Commission Junction (CJ). For the record, this was my second attempt in indulging myself in affiliates business after my first attempt with Clickbank back in early 2007. With virtually no promotion and backlinks creation due to [...] Read more:Money
Backup drivers from already installed drivers 2008-07-27 02:35:15 Double Drivers is particularly useful when you lost a driver (backup) on your computer and it is not anywhere to be found even on the net. With this software, you can see the full list of drivers installed on your computer and make a backup out of them. Say you just formatted your computer and [...]
Reorganize your Taskbar with Taskbar Reshuffle 2008-07-26 19:33:03 When Firefox first introduced this particular feature on its tabs, I wished Windows also has the same feature. I hope this feature will be included in Vista; apparently it is not there. Searching for some kind of small application that might help be to reshuffle the taskbar, return me with promising websites, unfortunately I need [...]
3rd Quarter Pagerank Update Kicks In 2008-07-26 06:32:34 Pagerank Update
just started for the 3rd time this year with mixed up feelings experienced by most of webmasters. Some enjoy the latest update as their websites notch up a little bit higher while people on the other extreme may be mourning the roller coaster dive on some of their websites. Regardless of PR you [...] Read more:Kicks
Blaze Media Pro: Edit & Convert your video / audio 2008-08-21 15:20:40 I tried different softwares to rip some of DVDs (24 and Smallville) I recently bought but the results were all almost the same, the final extraction came out as faulty (out of sync etc). The long hours taken to rip a DVD made me exhausted. I gave Blaze
Media Pro a try though I know [...] Read more:Convert
, video
Keep your arsenal up-to-date with Anti-Malware Toolkit 2008-08-20 17:30:08 When I first came across this program, I thought it will help us by scanning the existence of any malware and clean them up but that is not really the case. Anti-MalwareToolkit
, instead, provides automatic downloads of all the recommended security software, cleanup tools and all other related programs to keep your computer efficient.
Basically [...]
How to prevent keylogger from stealing your information 2008-08-18 14:51:55 If our computer or laptop has an antivirus installed and it is updated from time to time, chances of our system being penetrated by keyloggers are pretty much low. Perhaps you might come across this term previously but for those who don't, keylogger or "keystroke logger" is a rather nasty tool used primarily to [...] Read more:prevent
, information
Wordpress 2.6.1 released 2008-08-17 22:05:27 Another late heads up for wordpress users but I'm pretty sure most of you had already noticed the release of WordPress 2.6.1 from the notification in your dashboard. No new feature was introduced in this update but there are more than 60 fixes with few of them related to security. You may want to take [...] Read more:Wordpress
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