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50 sins of your website

I don’t know you. What I know is that you’re making mistakes when building a website. In the last years I saw a lot of websites with problems and I was thinking that will be helpful for any of you, no matter how experienced you are, this list of most common mistakes (I still have [...]

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How to remove the ‘foto’ virus – Y!M and MSN

For a week or so, I’ve got tons of instant messages (on Yahoo Messenger) including a link to a getimage.php file or image.php files. Nothing odd till my antivirus started giving alerts of virus presence when I wanted to open those links. Actually I didn’t but some friends of mine does :P Palevo is a [...]

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Keeping track of your website’s visitors using Slimstat

How to install slimstat on any website? Regarding monitoring your website visitors, except the well known web tool – Google Analytics, you can use as well Slimstat, an amazing tool for tracking your website users. It’s free and it’s coming in a handy way of installing. Slimstat is easy to read/use even for someone from [...]

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Free Email to SMS using Yahoo Canada

Just sent an email from an another address of mine to my principal email address and I received right away a text message on my phone containing the email I just sent. How is possible? I am on Koodo and I was curious if I can receive emails as SMS on my phone. And here [...]

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Watch Live TV channels streams with VLC media player

If you’re wondering how to watch live TV using VLC, here is a useful list. It’s a short list as you’ll see, but as you probably already know, is hard to find a lot of live TV channels streams, all working. Some of these streams are buffering like MTV’s streams or Fox News and Discovery [...]

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40+ Useful Keyboard Shortcuts Google Reader

I am a frequent feeds reader and because I am using Google reader to do this I thought you may find these Google reader shortcuts useful too. Hint: speaking of devil (aka Google) you might find some very interesting articles for reading clicking on Recommended items button. I particularly like the funny articles and of [...]

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How to get rid of “just in time debugging” (II)

I am writing this article as an update to an old post in which one I offered some help in removing “just-in time debugging” pop-up message. It seems that the old method doesn’t help you guys too much, despite the fact that for me was working just perfect. So, here a couple of new methods, [...]

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Javascript: onsubmit skipped

I did a small form for a payment gateway and needed onsubmit method, so I wrote one and test it. Tests failed in FF but worked in IE, no errors, nothing, only one thing: onsubmit method was skipped by JS Engine in FF. My original code: <form action="some_link" onsubmit="some_method()"> </form> Error? Yeah, a return in [...]

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Access a network website using VirtualBox

This article is also a reminder for me. If you are wondering how to access a website hosted by your local network using Internet Explorer or Firefox, or any other web browser it doesn’t really matter which one, you’ll have to use the IP address like in the following example: instead of using: e.g. http://computername.local/networkwebsite/index.html [...]

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Serve static content from a cookieless domain

These days I found Page Speed plugin and since I’m a site-speed freak I said to give it a try. On my tests I used FF with page speed, firebug plugins. Page Speed plugin has a tab that shows you what steps needs to be done to speed up your page. I won’t explain again [...]

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Find and Replace code using Wild cards in Dreamweaver

Let’s say, you are in a common situation when you have to search and replace some links in hundred or even thousand of web pages. You are using Dreamweaver. In CodA (Mac) there is a simple command, to use wild cards, at an one click distance, but in Dreamweaver? Oh, well, since you can’t get [...]

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How to protect your privacy against WHOIS

You will be telling me that I have a dirty mind after you’ll be reading this article. But let’s say that I’ve just found a different approach when is coming to the sensible part named money. In fact this little dirty trick will save some money from your pocket, yearly. Instead of paying for protecting [...]

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