It’s a big annoyance trying to save YouTube videos. Why would you want to save one? Well for one thing, it can be a lot more convenient to play it from a desktop multimedia player. For some users it takes up less CPU than the browser-based Flash player, important for phone users. Finally, if a [...]
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If you’re putting images on the Web, they’re available for people to download en masse and repost them as their own. So you might want to watermark them. That won’t prevent people from downloading and reposting, but at least you can identify the images as being original to you. There are plenty of ways to [...]
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Free fonts from Google to download or to allow your website’s visitors to download.
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For all intensive purposes, the English language is changing a lot these days. Chock it up to the Worldwide Web and the fact that more and more people are writing these days rather than merely reading. When they write, they write what they’ve heard. But sometimes they’ve heard wrong, and so they write wrong, too. [...]
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If you’re running a website, either you or your service provider is running a nameserver. The most popular nameserver is BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon). It’s old, venerable, full of features, complicated, and big. Sort of like Sendmail. MaraDNS is the secure, small, easy alternative. It’s also open source (like BIND).
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Remember GeoCities? It was the the dark underbelly of the Worldwide Web, where you could get a free space to spout off on whatever you wanted to. It was Greenwich Village as compared to the New York Times building. When you went there you were sure to exercise your synapses, reading about all sorts of [...]
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Bacula is an open-source network backup system released under the AGPL license. It’s available in the Ubuntu repositories.
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The author of Dive Into HTML5 has apparently committed infocide (removal of oneself from the Internet). This’ll probably give even more encouragement to packrats to keep local copies of everything they find even mildly useful. UPDATE: People have come up with alternative copies of Mark Pilgrim’s online books. http://diveintopython3.kennethreitz.com/ and http://diveintohtml5.info/
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Remember when Windows had a Start Menu with all of your programs? Remember when it didn’t make you have to remember and type the name of the program you want to find? Remember when Microsoft didn’t feel so compelled to tinker with every little feature just to make every Windows version different so people thought [...]
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Remember when there were only a few CPU families in the old day? 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, then the P4? It was easy to know which CPU was faster than which. Now it’s crazy hard. That’s where cpubenchmark.com comes in. They give you a graph of CPU performance as well as the price.
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