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Who hasn’t had the ‘pleasure’ of trying to send this collection of amazing pictures, small videoclip or audio recordings over the web to a friend or family member? I know I have, plenty of times. One of the things you face when trying to do that with big files are the limits ‘traditional’ ways such [...]

Finding the right host on the web isn’t always easy, in fact, it’s a horrible and very difficult job as there are hundreds, if not thousands, of web hosts on the big lands of the Internet. Nearly all of these hosts offer an ‘OK’ till decent value-for-money factor in terms of bandwidth and webspace.
The company [...]

Backups, everyone has to make them, and nearly everyone forgets or refuses to do so. I’m no doubt one of the people who forget to do so, most of the time I don’t backup on other places than my own hard disk, which isn’t particularly safe at all; a power surge or hard disk crash [...]

It was just a matter of time till someone came up with this idea; a test to see how bad your blog addiction is. I think I’m doing fairly well with my score of 56% – some points really count hard!
56%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?
Even though the questions aren’t too in-depth, I must say [...]

While your homework assignments certainly wont become easier or shorter using these applications, I’m sure it can actually make things easier for yourself when keeping track of your thoughts, organizing them and using the right tools to do calculations or output a bibliography, saving you quite some time.
This is exactly what the article ‘Web 2.0 [...]

Ever wondered if there isn’t some better alternative text processor for Word? If you have, you might find it interesting to know you’re not the only one, and there’s a list of the most useful (minimalistic) ones on the web! In case you haven’t, take a look at the list and you might become interested [...]

It’s a shame it’s Windows XP only, but the freeware application CSSVista (has nothing to do with Vista at all) will let you preview various CSS styles on the fly in both IE 6 and Firefox simultaneously. To make that a little easier, the app comes with three panels; one editor for CSS and a [...]

Not so long ago I wrote about the contest at Bluefur, the ones who were giving away a sleek 22″ widescreen monitor. Despite the not too many people joining in that contest so far, the odds of still are only small of course. That’s why John Chow dot Com’s offer is pretty interesting; double chances! [...]

Even though it’s not quite a very new technology, voip still isn’t very popular in most countries, Packet8 does show it’s an increasing market. According to their website already 7000 businesses in the US switched to their VOIP plans, it’s a big country, but still not a bad number.
On their website you can find various [...]

When playing poker online – or in a casino for that matter – you might notice there is a certain ‘fee’, often named ‘rake’, that will have to be paid over the money won while playing. Usually that is to cover the costs of the host, being it an internet or gaming host, as with [...]