Category: Internet
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Dollar going low, blogger earning less
As the US dollar drops in Stock Markets, there are some unexpected victims. As many other companies whose customers pay in US dollars, many bloggers using advertising services are being paid in US dollars (or in Euros converted from US dollars). While the green bill currency was dropping through the floor, bloggers earnings dropped too…
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Use your iPhone to access the Internet from your PC laptop
Thanks to LifeHacker, and if you have the following, you will be able to use your iPhone to access Internet from your laptop. A computer with Wi-Fi capable of creating an ad-hoc computer-to-computer connection (yours is) A jailbroken iPhone (If you don’t know how to jailbreak your iPhone, the easiest way is to make sure…
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Did you backup?
A backup, this is nearly nothing. But it can help you, it can save you, when disaster will strike. Since when didn’t you backup? Some ideas: Remember to copy the contents of your Flash memory card (even more if you store a lot of JPEG images on your big Flash card) Copy the data files…
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FTP drive mapped onto Windows
Sometimes, you make a heavy use of a FTP server. But it is tiresome to go to a separate program in order to copy files to and from this server. There is an easy solution under Windows: Add a FTP server onto a disk drive letter. For this, thanks to CyberNetNews explanations, you can map…
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Rich fonts for your web site
The design of a web site is notoriously opposed to the use of rich and varied fonts: You are strongly invited to stick to the small list of common fonts. Unfortunately, this is not always enough. If you already started exploring alternatives like text-in-GIF-images, have a look at this hackzine article: HOWTO – Use rich…
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Wikipedia in one snapshot
A beautiful WWW is publishing views of Wikipedia where one image sums it up. This map is generated using information about each article (edit activity, links, etc.) The latest graph was done for the Science-related articles.
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Weird: All our error pages
When you follow a broken link in this web site, you will fall onto an error page. Of course, this does not happen very often (Ed.: I hope so!); I decided to give you a direct list of the error pages to answer to the standard erorr code 404 page not found. 404 page not…
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Yahoo! to be sold? Microsoft ready to buy?
Here comes a weird news even when the worlds of finance and technology collide at high speed. However, this si the core of a rumour running around these days, more precisely since a Microsoft press conference held by Kevin Johnson, their president for Platforms and Services Division, where he told that Microsoft could reach a…
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Mute your browser
Sometimes it comes handy to silence your browser. When it opens a Flash media file and starts shouting. Here is FlashMute. It mutes Flash into your browser or all of your browser, leaving the rest of the computer in its normal state.