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Entries Tagged as 'Web Browsers'

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) without Windows Genuine Advantage validation

October 11th, 2007 by Mark5 · No Comments

Microsoft are now making Internet Explorer 7 available without having to go through the process of validation (WGA) for your Windows installation. By visiting their site, you can now elect to have your os automatically detected and updated, or, download the installation files for you to do on multiple machines. This development – or change [...]

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Tags: Citizen Journalism · Mark's Bits · Web Browsers



FTP client for Mac OSX

October 8th, 2007 by Alex Costa · No Comments

I friend of mine, had long suffered to find an easy FTP client to use on his Mac. He tried several but didn’t really find an FTP client to work well. He kept on using the FTP connection via Dreamweaver which is also a bit of a pain. I tried to use Finder as a [...]

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Tags: Applications · quick & easy tips · Web Browsers

Reload (override cache) on Firefox and IE

September 10th, 2007 by Alex Costa · 2 Comments

I came across this very useful shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+R) by accident. I was working on a ship, where I setup a small network with a Mobile Broadband connection. I noticed that all the graphics where downgraded to a lower resolution, which in some aspect is good as it saves bandwidth usage, but sometimes I wanted to [...]

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Tags: Applications · quick & easy tips · Web Browsers



WordPress to MySpace Crossposting

August 29th, 2007 by Mark5 · 11 Comments

For those of us who maintain several blogs, crossposting – or the ability to write one blog and then publish it to multiple blogs – is a very handy function! MySpace has traditionally been one of the hardest to crosspost to, but if you are a WordPress user, then enter some funky php courtesy of [...]

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Tags: Lifestyle · Mark's Bits · Tutorials / Training · Web Browsers

Gmail doesn’t open & live bookmarks stop

August 28th, 2007 by dcouper · No Comments

When I went in to the office after lunch, expecting a relatively quiet afternoon – with all the people off for the summer – I could not have been more mistaken. With a website problem that has been doing my head in and a couple of laptops to fix it turned out to be a [...]

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Tags: Web Browsers