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  • Protect Your Computer with Sandboxie

    Protect Your Computer with Sandboxie

    Keeping your data and computer secure is very important, especially if you spend much of your time online. There are many ways for hackers to gain access to your computer while you download files from web sites. This is why it is important to always install and use anti-virus and anti-malware software, a software firewall, and a hardware firewall.

    I recently came across another utility that can also help protect your computer. This utility allows you to isolate all your internet activity so everything can be easily deleted if needed. It is a really small tool that I have been using for a few days called Sandboxie.

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  • How to Display HTML Code in Blog Comments

    How to Display HTML Code in Blog Comments

    You can easily display HTML code in a blog comment you leave on a blog. Unfortunately, it does require some minor changes to the HTML before you write it to the comment as regular HTML tags won’t usually be displayed properly, mainly due to security concerns.

    When someone would like clarification about a particular piece of code, they attempt to paste it into the comments, but unfortunately, the code is removed and empty white-space is what appears. In this post I will describe how you can easily paste HTML code in your comment, not only on this blog, but probably any blog.

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  • Web Server Returns 404 Instead of 200 Status Code

    Web Server Returns 404 Instead of 200 Status Code

    I have been experiencing a rather weird issue with my blog recently, and one that I hadn’t noticed until I accessed my Google Webmaster account. The reason I hadn’t noticed the issue was because it wasn’t easily identifiable when viewing my blog, or the administrative pages. The problem was the fact that several of my posts were returning a “404 Not Found” status code instead of a “200 OK” status code.

    What has made this problem weird was that it was only happening on about 5 pages of my blog. All the other pages were returning a “200 OK” status code. Since all post pages use the same template file, and therefore are created the exact same way, I couldn’t figure out what created the problem. While the headers of the pages indicated a 404, the pages were displaying in the Web browsers without any problems.

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  • Top 7 Firefox Extensions to Increase Online Productivity

    Top 7 Firefox Extensions to Increase Online Productivity

    The Firefox browser is one of the most downloaded software on the Internet. More and more users are using Firefox because of its speed, security and a bunch of other features that make it stand out from the other popular web browsers like Internet Explorer and Safari.

    What makes Firefox preferred by most Internet users is because it is more than just an application where you can open websites. It can be a platform where web developers, bloggers, SEO consultants, etc can use to make their day to day lives more productive. This is with the help of various plug-ins and extensions that is compatible with Firefox which allow Internet users to do various tasks.

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  • Free Self-hosting for Your WordPress Blog on Amazon Web Services

    Free Self-hosting for Your WordPress Blog on Amazon Web Services

    Hosting a website is cheaper and simpler than it has ever been. You can host a WordPress blog for free on wordpress.com, but that approach comes with significant limitations on using your own domain and monetizing your site; eventually WordPress will want you to start paying for things.

    Using other hosting providers often entails signing up to a year-long contract, and unless you are prepared to pay for more than a basic account, the level of control you have is limited.

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  • Fix: Recommended For You Popup Ads in Browser

    Fix: Recommended For You Popup Ads in Browser

    A few weeks ago my wife mentioned that she was always getting “Recommended for You” popup ads displayed in her browser whenever she visited a web site. The popup was an ad that would appear in the lower-right corner of her browser window. At first I thought it was related to the site she was visiting until I saw the popup appear on multiple sites. I wasn’t quite sure what was happening so I decided to do a little research.

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  • Four Lessons IT Administrators Can Learn From Yahoo! Server Breach

    Four Lessons IT Administrators Can Learn From Yahoo! Server Breach

    A recent Yahoo! server security breach exposing 450,000 usernames and passwords indicates that there are certain security measures that cannot be ignored. Yes, it is true that every web server is exposed to security risks, but through some precautionary steps, the damage can be controlled or minimized to a great extent.

    In addition, server producers such as Dell try their hardest to make the servers as safe as possible. Network security administrators should spend more nights working on strengthening their network security system.

    Not only this, the network administrator should also double-check that the basic security principles are correctly implemented. In this article we will discuss a few lessons we have learned from the recent successful hack attack on the web giant.
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  • Breaking it Down: How Website Building is Like Home Building

    Breaking it Down: How Website Building is Like Home Building

    If you stop to think about it, website building is much like home building. While not as complex, a website does share many of the basic elements that goes into building a home. Below are several elements of a home that can be used to describe how a website is developed into a finished product.

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