Category: Internet

  • Storage on line

    Tom’s Hardware just compared 7 online services for online storage of data. Take your storage online

  • Spell-checking with Opera

    I am in love with the Opera web browser. I use it for 99% of my web browsing, so it is also the tool I use when writing posts for the roumazeilles.net web site. The only thing that I did not have right out-of-the-box after download was the ability of checking my spelling (and several…

  • Print all the world’s SPAM

    Print all the world’s SPAM

    In 1998, Nick Philip created an art installation willing to show the real volume of SPAM. An email address on nowhere.com forwards all SPAM it receives to fax machines that print it all.

  • Fifty ways to track website traffic

    You have a web site, you want to see its traffic growth (it appears that this is the number one way web site creators spend their time: They track each and every little traffic change with stat tools). I offer you here a frighteningly long list of ways to satisfy your worst statistical perversions. Fifty…

  • Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

    Ok! This is useless for myriads of Internet users except the web site designer that wants (needs?) to test a page under different versions of Internet Explorer, but the installer built by Yousif ontains IE3, IE4.01, IE5, IE5.5 and IE6. Not bad! Install multiple versions of IE on your PC

  • What is RSS?

    There are two ways to read this post, one is to go to the web site and to look at the pages; The other is to check the RSS news feed (). If the number of visits is the judge, there are only very slim chances that you know about the mere existence of the…

  • Free movies, ad-supported, DRM-spiked

    I cannot really test it from my trip in South America. However, I thought useful to inform you that there is a new web site providing free movies. You just have to accept some ads (not very different from what you have on most TV channels). SpiralFrog Did I speak about its legal status? It…

  • WordPress 2.3 – It’s show time!

    All WordPress users should know that their prefered tool for creating a web site has just been upgraded. WordPress 2.3 is now ready and rolled into the public.

  • Google and numbers

    Personal research: What are the web sites best ranked for a Google search on the first figures? The results are… interesting: 0 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 1 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 2 : w3.org (Google search) 3 : 3.co.uk UK telephone operator (Google search) 4 : channel4.org TV channel (Google search) 5 : five.tv TV…