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jQuery Tutorial (Part 5): AJAX Them All!
As we near the end of our jQuery mini-tutorial series, it's about time we took a more in-depth look at one of the most used features of jQuery. AJAX allows a website to communicate with a server in the background without require the entire page to reload. From Facebook-style infinite status streams to submitting form data, there's a million different real life situations in which this technique can be useful.
PWGen - A Very Advanced Password Generator [Windows]
If you aren't using cryptographically-strong passwords by now, you're late. Trusting LastPass is not for everyone. No matter how much security software you have installed, a secure password is always going to be the foundation of basic online security and you've got to get used to it. A few years ago, I went through a phase where I spent several hours in a single day revising all of my passwords.
Watch TV Shows on XBMC With These Add-Ons
Do you love TV? Then you also love XBMC, even if you don't know it yet. The ultimate media center software offers a wide variety of ways for you to catch up with your favorite shows online, legal and otherwise. Set up a few plugins and you can watch whatever you want in a couple of clicks, from the comfort of your couch. Legally watching TV shows can be insanely complicated, depending on where you live.
How Do I Install Ubuntu on a New Windows 8 Computer?
The introduction of personal computers with Windows 8 preinstalled with them also introduced a controversial under-the-hood modification - Secure Boot. Secure Boot is a technology which is included in any new computer that has Windows 8 preinstalled and the official sticker. It is meant to check that you have a certified operating system installed on your computer before it tries to boot it.