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Make Firefox to Not Send HTTP Referer (or On a Per-Site Basis)
By default browsers such as Firefox sends the Referer information to the target URL in the HTTP header, as defined by HTTP protocol, so the destination URL / website knows where you have come from. For instance, when you click this link to one of my friends’ sites, it would know you have arrived at …
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Software to Convert PDF to MS Word Format
One of my friends has created a very useful piece of software to do PDF to Word conversions. I find his product a breeze to use so I’m recommending it to my fellow readers. Hopefully it would be of some use to you guys. Differences between PDF and Word PDF (.pdf) and MS Word (.docx, …
Enable Firefox Spell Checker for Single-line Text Input
Firefox has come with a tremendously useful feature that is the spell checking. However the problem is, by default, it only checks the spelling of text in <textarea></textarea> the block text input. How to make it also check the spelling of <input type=”text” /> so that we can be worry-free of misspelled words in single-line …
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Moredays: Beautiful Productivity Tool To Release iOS Apps Soon
I have previously reviewed Moredays, the cool productivity tool that is also fun, right after its Beta launch in October last year. Since then, the digital organizer and scrapbook in one has continued improving, adding in for example the ability to sync with Google Apps, that now makes it pleasure to use. They’ve stayed true …
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Invoicera Review — Online Invoice Software & Client Billing Software
Let’s be honest here. One of the most dreaded dreams for any working professionals perhaps is generating timely and professional invoices. Important as they are for ensuring timely payments, it is a pain to sacrifice time and make an effort to track down all the details. If you are having a tough time preparing invoices …
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FFVCL – FFmpeg Delphi VCL for Video / Audio Apps Development
This post is dedicated to one of my friends, Coolie (not his real name but he preferred to be called that way among friends), a father and self-entrepreneur who created the outstanding Delphi VCL component for FFmpeg that makes it extremely easy to develop audio and video applications for Windows. For those who are not …
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Moredays: Cool Productivity Tool That’s Fun
Productivity tools don’t necessary make money for you, but they save money, especially those that help you keep organized, and save large amounts of data in one place so that you won’t have to access multiple sources to get much needed information. For people on the go, there’s no better, and more affordable solution, than …
Microsoft Office 365 Review & Screenshots – What will you get?
Office 365 is a set of team collaboration / productivity web applications for professionals, businesses, government agencies and education institutions. It currently offers 3 different plans: For professionals and small businesses, $6 / user / month, basic features For midsize businesses and enterprises, $12 and more / user / month, advanced features For education And …
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How to delete a Skype account so that it doesn’t appear in search?
Several of the Google results for ‘how to delete Skype account’ suggest that you can’t literally delete any Skype account once created. However it really bothers me that more than one account under one email address would definitely confuse people who have searched for you and are trying to figure out which one is the …
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Create Contact and Survey Forms with FormKid.com the Free Online Form Builder
I just finished creating yet another web application that may be useful to fellow webmasters, FormKid.com. It helps you create professional online web forms for your website. Check out what I created just now, a contact form for Kavoir.com. You can contact me by filling out and submitting the form from now on! Currently you …
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How to convert .png, .gif, .bmp or .jpg images to .ico icons to make favicon.ico for your website?
Over a year ago I created this online web application Convert Hub by the help of the splendid open source image manipulation library Netpbm. Give it a try, upload an image and convert it to another format. But not just that, it’s also capable of resizing an image, rotating or flipping it. I love it. …
Free 2GB HTML static web pages hosting
For every free Dropbox plan, it comes with 2GB online backup storage that has a public folder in which you can publish HTML web page files that are publicly accessible around the Web. It will give you a URL that you can hand out to your friends so they can view the page on the …
Dropbox review — the most intuitive online backup storage, data synchronizing and files sharing software
I’ve tried quite a few online backup services to back up my valuable website data — you just can’t imagine what a nightmare it would be to lose all the files that you’ve been working on for the last half year — I even created my own backup programs that automatically syncs and stores designated …
Bulk Domain Name Availability Checker Tool to Batch Search Available Domains
Someone asks me via contact form how to check potentially hundreds of domains for availability at once, as it’d be a huge waste of time to check them one by one. For example, when you need to check if these 50 domain names are still register-able: californiainsurance.com, newyorkinsurance.com, virginiainsurance.com, … and so forth, you need …
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VeriSign Data Analyzer — The Most Authoritative Type-in Traffic Analysis Tool for Unregistered Domains / Misspelled Domains
VeriSign, the central registry for COM domains, recently released a new tool called Data Analyzer. Data Analyzer allows you to check the amount of traffic a domain name gets, even if the domain does not exist. So just the kind of traffic analysis tool that examines the type-in traffic of unregistered domains (.COM). Well, not …
Web Hosting Connection Speed Test
Update: There’s a better uptime tracking and connection / downloading speed monitor tool to test the responsiveness of your website, it’s Host Tracker. But be prepared that it may consume quite some MBs of bandwidth of your server because it sends HTTP requests from well over half a hundred places around the world. Update: Yet …
Validate and Check Your Site’s Accessibility against WAI (WCAG) and Section 508
If you are determined to make your site comply with the latest provisions in the accessibility code, you may find it’s a pain in the ass to check point by point against the checklist of WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) and Section 508. Yep, it sure is with so many check points for your web page …
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Watch TV and Movies Free Online – The China P2P Internet Streaming Network: PPS
You know what they say, China doesn’t have digital products, instead, it’s all digital freebies because of the lack of legal accountability for intellectual property. A recently released Hollywood blockbuster movie will be pouring into the piracy market at less than $1 per DVD copy. And online? You literally have unlimited access to millions of …
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Dismiss unusable proxy server lists – Build your own stable socks5 proxy server and surf anonymously in minutes!
All web hosting servers with SSH access enable you to tunnel the sessions so that your local computer can act like a socks proxy. For web hosting users, browsing anonymously has never been so easy. There’s a detailed step by step tutorial for turning your web host into a socks5 proxy server. Basically, you use …