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The Later app – one of the most meaningless, useless apps I’ve ever seen
Never waste your time with such a meaningless service / app / platform like later dot com
How to speed up Ubuntu 18
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,
How to regenerate icon cache on linux ?
Icon cache missing on ubuntu / linux mint / peppermint . Here’s how you can easily regenerate your entire icon cache in a few seconds.
How to install Prestashop on mysql 5.7 or newer
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
Smarty template tricks for OG:tags with international charsets
TL;DR version: if you use opencart or prestashop and your shares on facebook don’t look good, you have product images missing or product descriptions missing, read the article completely, to learn how to properly og: tag your templates. – Some of my Prestashop and Opencart customers, especially French and eastern-europeans use in their product and
Quick apache .htaccess rules writer in PHP
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
Trick to use against idiots who try to hack your site
TL:DR version: some examples of how some lifewaster hacker-wannabes try to gain unauthorised access to sites and blogs and how you can simply and effectively block them — Obviously, some people have too much time on their hands, and don’t appreciate life enough in order to do something useful with theirs, so they spend hours
When the customer says “that damn computer just won’t work”
TL;dr : check these, if you think your customer’s pc is clogged ; Some of the regular challenges of being an IT support person are listening to heavy cursing, accepting some foul language from your customer knowing that it’s directed towards “that damn machine” and not you, and from time to time, cleaning a PC
Blogger thinks 2+2#4 (two plus two is not always four !)
I sometimes wonder how is it even possible, that software and service giants like google, yahoo, microsoft, and other companies their size can even exist in a technology world presumably dominated by pure, hard-core mathematics, and yet, fail to respect even the simplest arithmetic rules, such as 2+2=4. Blogger now “thinks” that math should not
Closing other services may affect yahoo mail ?
Has closing several of its services started to adversely affect Yahoo mail ? I wonder if the reorganising and closing of several services that is going on at Yahoo, is affecting the stability of its mail services, or it really is, as they just say, a temporary error. I’ve seen this error several times last
Disallow visitors with adblockers to see your content
After following a very interesting thread on google plus with regard to people using adblockers while visiting sites on the internet, I’ve realised that so many people simply don’t understand that some of us actually make a living, as humble as it may be, by displaying ads on our sites. And according to some of
How to make firefox portable the default browser
[ TL;DR: solution to set firefox portable as the default html handler ] Firefox Portable, and portable apps in general are great, but when it comes to setting firefox portable as the default html handler, or default internet protocol handler, the creators still haven’t found an integrated, in-app solution for doing that. Sure, you can
My laptop is overheating quickly: tips and tricks for better thermal management
[ TL;DR: Tips and tricks for better thermal management on laptops, to avoid overheating ] Some laptops and notebook/netbook computers have a much better thermal management then others, some are silent and cool better, others make a lot of noise and yet, sometimes overheat. Most people think that in most of the cases in which
Collection of Firefox memory and config tweaks to make FF a lot faster
UPDATE: See at the end of the article ! I’ve been a Firefox user since its first versions, way back, when the norm for a pretty good computer was a CPU at around 900 mhz and a 20GB HDD was considered huge (around here, in Eastern Europe, most technologies get adopted a bit later 🙂
Even Adwords is down sometimes … for maintenance
This is not something you see everyday, even the entire adwords system needs to shut down from time to time, for maintenance.
