Category: Tech
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HijackThis is a powerful tool that’ll help you analyze your system if it’s been infected by malware you can’t remove with programs like Ad-Aware. HijackThis examines your registry and hard drive and creates a list of their contents in a log file that can be saved as a text file, so you can identify and…
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From the profane to the mundane… This guy really loves ThinkPads. And I completely understand. Having used a ThinkPad for about 6 hours a day, almost every day for the past 3.5 years, and even though I burned out a screen and a hard drive, I can’t imagine using anything else. When my wife needed…
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Want to post a sticky in TypePad? You have to be using an Advanced Template and be willing to muck around in the index.html template, but Don at TypePad Users Forum has posted the code.
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With client-side software like ecto.
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The W3C has lots of great online resources, including X/HTML validators for websites and for uploaded files.
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Need to move your iTunes library from one computer to another? No problem–just use your iPod.
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A nice touch to add to your site is a favicon, a small graphic (typically 16 x 16 pixels) that will uniquely identify the site in visitors’ browser address bars, on their list of favorites, next to RSS feed listings, etc. Here’s mine, which is also on my new business cards: There are basically…
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An friendly attorney of my acquaintance pointed out to me the importance of crediting any photos or images that I found online and posted here. I did a little due diligence into best practices in this area, and the key steps seem to be: Host the image yourself; i.e. download it from their site and…
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Alt and Title tags. Not interchangeable. Who knew? There’s a useful thread over at Webmaster World. Bottom line: use Title for credits and other descriptive text, especially if you want that info to show up in Mozilla/Firefox.
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Michael Fagan’s Fagan Finder has a nice compilation of RSS-related info and resources.