January 4, 2011
Google cache is an awesome tool that can prove really handy for various purposes. For example, clicking through Google cache links from within search results pages will highlight your search terms and allow you to easier locate them on the target page. Besides, Google cache can also be used as a proxy server to bypass [...]
October 16, 2010
The browser cache temporarily stores images, scripts, and other parts of websites while you are browsing. This is normally a good thing because this enhances performance and load time. The browser cache usually works behind the scene: you are unlikely to notice it even exists unless you feel like digging deeper. But do you know [...]
October 11, 2010
If you own a website, you know about the fears that keep you up at night: getting hacked, receiving an overload of traffic slowing down your site and your site going down. Most small website owners have not had the resources – both technical and monetary – to do much about fixing these common problems, [...]
October 6, 2010
You’ve undoubtedly seen a ‘Top 10 WordPress Plugins’ post before. It’s pretty much required reading if you have a new WordPress blog, and everyone seems to be writing them these days. We’re guilty of this as well, having written our share of plugin articles over the years. One plugin I’ve seen on a lot of [...]
May 29, 2009
If there’s something Windows and Mac users share, it’s the problem of uninstalling applications ““ and removing the debris left over. Most uninstallers on Windows don’t remove everything, and often times they leave behind orphaned registry keys, file type associations, icons or even entire folders. If Mac users have it easy, a simple drag and [...]
April 11, 2009
Opera, I think, doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Maybe it’s the marketing, maybe people remember just the old days when Opera was shareware. Today we’re going to look at Opera Beta build 10.00 1, also dubbed as “˜Turbo’. Opera, today, is closed source and distributed as freeware. It has a very clean and simple [...]
April 3, 2009
Have you ever sent a link to someone, but when they open it they do not see what you wanted them to see? The website could have been shut down due to a take-down notice, the webpage could have got hit by the Digg effect or the author could have changed the information themselves. Either [...]
December 14, 2008
June 14, 2008
There are many different scenarios behind broken links, dead websites or 404 errors. For one, the server could in fact be down or overloaded. Especially popular sites like Facebook or Twitter are often slow and timed out when hit by the masses. The same is true for pages that receive a short-lived hype via Digg, [...]
April 12, 2008
I’ve previously written about how you can save and monitor bandwidth when using Firefox. In that post, I wrote about a few settings that you can alter and a few extensions that you can install for optimising bandwidth usage. Now, I’d like to introduce a relatively unknown Firefox extension called Better Cache to all of [...]
