April 14, 2010
Despite the fact that there are plenty of ways to create a 404 error page more usable and fun, most web developers still never bother to and you land on a totally boring error page that suggests no other option other than leaving it. Or sometimes (when you mistype the URL) you end up on [...]
July 15, 2009
Windows machines are often the subject of jokes within the computer geek community, and much of that bad credit is due to cryptic error messages that reveal very little information even to the veterans of this operating system. Of those type of errors, BSODs (Blue Screen of Death) are the worst and are often caused [...]
February 10, 2009
An urban legend has it that the first internet server was situated in room 404 of the CERN building. Consequently, this server also produced the first “Not Found” error, which, as the legend claims, was subsequently termed 404 error. The problem is that apparently a room 404 never existed at CERN. I have never been [...]
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 25, 2008
Not so long ago I got an email from one of the readers asking if there is a way to be notified about site updates when the site doesn’t offer RSS feeds. And since there are plenty of popular sites that don’t provide any feeds I thought it may be a good idea to write [...]
February 19, 2008
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, there existed a light-weight browser that lived in the deep shadows of Internet Explorer. It was based on the source code of Netscape, a fallen bird which fell prey to Microsoft. It had a wonderful feature – the ability to increase features by installing extensions. [...]
November 14, 2007
The idea of this post is to go through a bunch of tools that add to your browsing experience. Nothing extra ordinary but a handful of simple useful apps that solve common web problems: slow website loads, 404 errors, tab overloads, never ending signups, phishing, etc. Enjoy! (1) OpenDNS – A quick way to add [...]
