Now that you’ve upgraded Firefox to version 3, you’re probably wondering what all the fuss was about, well Mozilla itself, as you’d perhaps expect, has a nice round-up of the new features. But, fellow bloggers have highlighted dozens of features…

Previously, I’ve explained how to find the apparently secret Feedburner count for a blog that doesn’t display the Feedburner chiclet. Now, here’s another little hack that allows you to display the count for any given day, as well as click through…

Anyone who says they have never had a problem with email spam is either my Dad, who has never touched a computer in his life (bless him), or they have staff to read their emails. Spam is ubiquitous in the…

Last week’s record-breaking flurry of activity over at Mozilla brought me up short, I am surely missing out if I don’t upgrade my version 2 Firefox browser to the all-singing, all-dancing version 3. But, what about my bookmarks, and profile,…

When trying to reset your Wordpress blog password, have you seen the following message?

Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid.

Apparently, it’s a bug in Wordpress 2.5.1, according to Brian Turner. Basically, it means that password recovery won’t always…

At one time, outsiders considered the internet to be nothing more than a virtual hangout for the tragically reclusive, the depressive loner, and hormonal teenagers seeking a surreptitious buzz without the embarrassment of printed materials.

Of course, everyone now knows how far…

Is there any aspect of our lives that we don’t manage on the internet these days? Maybe one or two, but over the last decade or so (pretty much since the appearance of the first graphical web browser), we have…

I’ve been running websites since 1996. My first one was on one of those Freenet systems at a US university that you could only access with the Lynx text-only browser using a telnet connection, another was on webspace provided with…

If you’re Windows XP machine is getting slower day by day, then clear out your Windows XP’s “Prefetch” folder. Go to %windows%\Prefetch (on my machine that’s c:\windows\prefetch, for instance) and simply delete all the “.pf” files. The Prefetch system was…

My ISP (formerly ntl), just changed my IP address. That just doesn’t happen that often. I only noticed because my OpenDNS shortcuts were no longer working and I had to login to update my network settings. Like I say, it doesn’t…

A while back, I planned to use my digital compact camera to record a video audition for my singing group. It would have been far more efficient in terms of downloading and editing the results. Unfortunately, the camera allows only…

Public relations organizations and press offices are well versed in puff pieces, vacuous pronouncements regarding the products and services they hope to promote in the media. Often, the media sucks up such puff pieces, not only as fillers during lean…

The Auntie Spam Greasemonkey script for Firefox makes handling your Akismet spam folders so much easier than viewing them in native format.

The new version even groups spam comments by IP address and tells you how many have been submitted from specific IP…

A new web 2.0 tool that allows you to compare public Feedburner counts for up to four sites at a time going back as much as two years, launched recently. It is a great ego boost to plugin your feed…

I leave comments all over the blogosphere and there are usually three follow-ups. The first is that my comment simply becomes one of a growing stack of comments and may receive a response from another reader or the blogger in question.…

Sometimes it’s a surprise that a site shows up at all in my browser. I run the latest version of the NoScript plugin in Firefox to block malware and opportunistic networks and other nasties and the graphic (click to see…