Category: Internet
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IE7 is on us, let’s prepare our sites
I need to look into this quickly now that Internet Explorer 7 is seriously ready to reach all of our PCs. There will be news, there will be chanes and uour web sites may suddenly break down because of that. For it, RegDeveloper offer its help with an article on preparing your web site for…
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Web site: 8 mistakes to avoid
It’s not only that when creating a web site you have to make it as easy to use as possible, but these things seem not to change with time. WebMonkey gives us a fine list of these mistakes no web designer should allow himself: Links that don’t change color when visited Breaking the back button…
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Funny domain names
Actually, the owners of these domain names did not think (or did not think twice before registering the domain name). Thanks to Happy Carpenter for bringing this to our delighted attention. But don’t click here if you are easily offended.
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85 millions
This is the sheer number of web sites as counted in the beginning of June by Netcraft. Do you remember the time when Altavista was proud to have a search base of 10 millions pages? The web is young and still growing fast.
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GBuy, new Google weapon against PayPal
28th June, Google will initiate the operation of GBuy. There was a persistent rumour of the interest of Google to go foray into the PayPal market. It seems that GBuy will be a new payment system (exactly like PayPal from eBay), but it will also be connected to the global search engine. This could give…
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Your own map
Didn’t you already need to write a map for a few friends that you invited to your home or some even less obvious location? This is a little nightmare to do it by yourself. You probably went to one of the mapping web sites (Mappy.com, for example), you printed, cut-n-paste, etc. This is over! Your…
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Pegasus mail upgraded to French and German
As my long-time readers know, Pegasus mail is my prefered email software. It’s free, it’s powerful, it’s nearly insensitive to security issues (partly because it does not have all the bells and whistles of others like Outlook Express), it’s for Windows. Two important news about Pegasus mail: Pegasus mail goes to v4.31 (with new improved…
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404 Random page found
I have been correcting an old need for this web site. There was no page to handle the case where you click on a link to a non-existent page. Now, if you go to a non-existent page you will be greeted with some random message. I hope you’ll appreciate the kind of humour.
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ThePirateBay is back online
Merely a few days after their server computers were seized by the Swedish police, ThePirateBay.org is already back online. It appears that as any global private company, ThePirateBay.org really had a crash recovery plan prepared to correct extreme circumstances like those found last Wednesday. The new server is located in Netherlands (an additional server has…