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Ensuring safety when someone sends you a shortened URL
The shortening of website addresses is quite handy and useful as you share links across all the social media networks. With limits on the length of your posts wasting 50 characters on a web address just isn’t going to fly. The shortened URL service came about as a solution to communicating long addresses to friends; [...]
Viewing your web design in multiple versions of IE
Those of you that are web designers have likely grown a great disdain for Internet Explorer. IE is given, and rightly so, a ton of grief in this area because of Microsoft’s attitude towards following web standards. When a web browser is programmed to obey and render accurately to standards, a web designer can be [...]
Search for software updates with CNET TechTracker
I’ve already discussed how an application like Device Doctor can help you maintain up to date device drivers for your hardware but perhaps you were left wondering – is there a similar application for installed software? Even though this is a rhetorical question I’m still going to answer it by saying yes, there are actually [...]
Test your streaming video speed on Youtube
A high-speed broadband connection is a requirement to get any of the media rich benefits available on the Internet; viewing videos off streaming sites such as YouTube is impossible to enjoy. But what constitutes broadband speed? Oddly, it’s not consistently defined and that leads to a lot of confusion and problems – especially on content [...]
Simplify software installing with Ninite
Probably the only negative to purchasing a new computer is installing the multitude of applications that you require in order to get things done – whatever that entails. Likewise, a fresh install of Windows exhibits the same annoyance. Having recently performed a clean install of Windows 7, I’ve faced the same problem. Most PC users [...]
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