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When it comes to big businesses, everyone would agree Google and Bing are two competing giants. They compete for the attention of visitors, the attention of potential business customers, yet, in their attempt to be more politically correct then any other player on the market, or should we say.. more catholic then the pope, they
Never waste your time with such a meaningless service / app / platform like later dot com
I was surprised today to see that someone is actually trying to blackmail me into giving them 0.5BTC (bitcoin), or my site, reputation, and whatever other pink unicorns this person is dreaming about, will be destroyed. I think the image in itself speaks louder then any words, not to mention that probably the same person
TL;DR: A list of tweaks and settings that can improve your Ubuntu 18x’s speed A LOT. Reading time: around 40 minutes, so if you don’t have that much time on your hand, you can go read something else. If you’re one of the people who have noticed a significant change in booting speed, shutdown speed,
When I received approval for the Google Adsense program back in 2007, I thought I have become a part of the club of the elite bloggers, or at least a part of some select club. And you know what ? For a while, it actually was a select club. Having your blog approved for monetisation
Icon cache missing on ubuntu / linux mint / peppermint . Here’s how you can easily regenerate your entire icon cache in a few seconds.
According to some online sources, the current year (2017) is a year of shortages in the solid state drive industry (more commonly known as SSD drives or NAND flash drives). The huge demand for this microelectronic device has surpassed the production capacity of the factories that produce it, and the exponential growth of devices that
According to several online news sources, the Yahoo-Verizon deal is a closed one, and Yahoo is no longer a standalone company, but part of the much larger Verizon family. Former CEO Marissa Mayer, who’s poor judgement and lack of actual understanding of technology brought Yahoo close to annihilation, has also stepped down from her leadership
TL;DR: FREE diff utility. An online tool that helps you more easily recognise the differences between two similar texts.Or any two texts for that matter Here’s a neat “diff” utility for making quick assessments of where two texts differ. How is this useful ? Well, for starters, if you are an affiliate, or use paypal,
TL;DR version: here’s how you can solve the Prestashop installation error “SQL error on query Invalid default value for ‘last_connection_date’”. If you are installing a Prestashop CMS for your e-commerce needs on a server that is configured with a mysql backend with version numbers 5.7, or any of its newer versions, you might get stuck
TL;DR version: here’s how to parse HTML files with PHP hypertext preprocessor on apache 2.4x webserver, and PHP7 on linux In PHP 7, the newest and ever more popular version of the PHP scripting language, the only files that are parsed by default are the ones that have .php, .phtml, or .php3/php4/php5 extensions. I don’t
A customer of mine has asked me on fiverr how she can create posts from sliders and add it to her pages, so instead of just writing a post about it, I created a small how-to video and uploaded it to youtube. Here’s the clip, it could be useful for someone else, too, not just
Once the work-week is over, most people can hardly wait to get home and unwind with some interesting pastime, a game, a good TV show, or just by hanging out with friends and family. For those that would like to unwind with a free, online game, I suggest you give this new, free, HTML 5
The site ahrefs.com can purportedly tell any site owner, for prices starting from 99$ / month, who links to them from where, and also provide site owners with other seemingly significant and meaningful data about visitor activity. The problem is, they use software bots to crawl sites, and THOSE BOTS CLICK ON LINKS in your site,