Some people might question my integrity on this post but let me clarify. I was offered a free hosting ticket (free when I buy a domain name) by Godaddy with no mention of ads being added to my site, I only saw the ads after I installed a wordpress blog in my new free hosting. [...]

[Read more →]

Got a project that needs a bunch of images of web pages or web page thumbnails? Trying to batch convert html to jpeg or png? I have just such a project underway and my preference was to be able to use a command similar to wget on a linux VPS (it might be called imagewget) [...]

[Read more →]

I don’t know about you, but I am often checking out new ideas on the web and trying to write a report or essay that that makes sense to someone else. Until I discovered Google Notebook I kept notes in Word or a text editor. That works OK, but recording the URL, a quote clip [...]

[Read more →]

The lads and lasses over at less everything have been busy! They have released an open source social networking system based on Ruby on Rails. Ray Cheung spotted this and wrote a great post over at webappers.com. LOVDbyLess is aiming to be the WordPress of social networks – and why not? Why should Facebook have [...]

[Read more →]

Microsoft claims this Vista update will improve stability, security and performance. It also warns that the Update could cause some software to malfunction, including some security software like the anti-virus from BitDefender and Trend Micro. The other programmes that may be affected by this update are: BitDefender AV Fujitsu Shock Sensor Jiangmin KV Antivirus 10 [...]

[Read more →]

According to the web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, it is not a good idea and it infringes upon consumer rights. Two major ISPs in the UK (BT & Virgin) have already signed up to use (or be used by) Phorm to track user’s browsing history in order to do targeted advertising. I didn’t really like [...]

[Read more →]