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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
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,
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
Local geo targeting is the fine-tuning of the RELEVANCE of your search-engine result pages entries, to the specific areas or cities, in which you provide your products or services, and to those specific services, that your business has to offer. And it’s the single biggest improvement you can give your site, if it’s based on
There are quite a large number of websites based on wordpress that use dotonpaper’s booking system or booking pro plugin, just in my experience as a freelancer, I’ve seen over 50 sites that use it, some of them for travel booking and hotel lodging, others for cleaning services, because from many points of view, the
Sometimes it’s good to have a quick .htaccess rules writer for your server / host, to block a larger number of IP addresses from accessing stuff on your site, like spambots, or people (bored kids ?) who try to hack into your site or blog. If you use any kind of statistics plugin on your
The TDE Desktop environment is an extraordinary piece of software that allows one to keep working with the computer as KDE used to look and feel like before the switch or “upgrade” to KDE 3 and before that, and as the project’s maintainers themselves state, with ” … a primary goal of retaining the function
Finally, I can say wholeheartedly, that after having tried and tested very thoroughly, more then 200 linux distributions found on distrowatch.com, I have found the best, fastest, simplest, most complete, most user-friendly, efficient, task-oriented linux distro to date ! Last time when I was so excited and so pleased about anything in computer technology, was
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