Posts tagged with "other"

Completely customise your browsing experience with complete and utter ease. Remove any page-clutter and any adverts with just 4 clicks.

Posted by Oli 12 months ago in firefox, adblock & other. Continue reading »

It's just something that struck me and struck me hard: if Google wanted to, they could stop 99% of all spam in it's tracks... Let me explain

Posted by Oli 14 months ago in google, spam & other. Continue reading »

It might sound like a totally crazy thing to suggest, but it can be true. If you play the "game of spam" properly you can find your email addresses receiving more spam but much less, even none, getting through to your inbox. For those that aren't familiar with the process of how

Posted by Oli 18 months ago in spam & other. Continue reading »

Truth be told, there are no rules to what you have to abide by when designing a new website. You *can* do pretty much what you like, but then again, you might not have much repeat traffic. 1. Use standards This is probably the most flogged horse of a concept that there is in today's

Posted by Oli 21 months ago in webdev, css & other. Continue reading »

This stems from a rant I had the other day about a brand new PC game, Neverwinter Nights 2, needing (well wanting, at any rate) an 82.7megabyte patch within 24 hours of release. In the last 10 years there have been two increasing trends that pose

Posted by Oli 22 months ago in games, programming, internet & other. Continue reading »

The follow up experiment testing more software with improved benchmarks. If you want to know what applications are slowing down your machine, check out this post.

Posted by Oli 24 months ago in benchmarks, windows & other. Continue reading »

The first of two studies carried out in September 2006 showing what types of software and more interestingly which versions of those types make Windows XP slow down.

Posted by Oli 24 months ago in benchmarks, windows & other. Continue reading »

When KittenAuth was launched I was forced to look for an auxiliary host to offload all the images and after a day or so of scouring the internet and finding some places that were obviously dodgier than others, I found DreamHost. At a glance on their website, you might be fooled into thinking

Posted by Oli 28 months ago in hosting, offer & other. Continue reading »

Introduction Copy protection has been around since the dawn of time in various guises from software based monitors that make sure something is the original (by making it impossible to copy the physical version perfectly) to hardware based where the software needs to detect something on the

Posted by Oli 30 months ago in piracy, copyright, drm & other. Continue reading »

Quite a short tutorial today. Have you binned five years of work by accident? How about destroyed your entire music collection? Well most cases of "death-by-user" for files are supposed to happen but there are times when you just slip on shift+delete and they're gone... But please

Posted by Oli 45 months ago in undelete, windows & other. Continue reading »

<p>Trying to get a person to do something is known as Social Engineering. It can be a difficult, near impossible task depending on the guillability of the person that you're sending it to, but following these few steps can make it a whole lot easier...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Step

Posted by Oli 62 months ago in security, social engineering & other. Continue reading »

What are trojans? How do I use them? How do I know if I have one on my PC? Where do I get them?These are some of the many questions which we get all the time. I thouhgtthe best introductionary tutorial would to explain what the little blighters actually ARE.Trojans,

Posted by Oli 62 months ago in security, trojan, virus & other. Continue reading »