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Keep your bookmarks safe and synchronized

Keep your bookmarks safe and synchronized

Foxmarks is a FireFox addon that can keep your bookmarks (including the bookmarks toolbar) synchronized between different computers. It’s very simple to set up and it integrates seamlessly in the browser. It also offers to keep your saved passwords on their servers (encrypted), but I didn’t opt for that.

Netiquette in emails

Netiquette in emails

netiquette = a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks, ranging from Usenet and mailing lists to blogs and forums While spending time on the Internet you eventually interact with many kinds of people. They belong to different cultures, races, age groups or genders. Some have a different way of life, of communicating [...]

Laptop back from service

Today I got my laptop back with a new motherboard + graphics board. Apparently these two are fixed together. Along with the replacement I’ve noticed that 2 bugs were no longer present: the system doesn’t freeze anymore when I eject the disk (it has been doing this since I bought it) I can update to [...]

Good-bye getafreelancer.com

Today I’ve decided to remove my account from getafreelancer.com. I haven’t used it for a few years anyway, but there were some private details about me hanging there. Funny situation: I used their help desk to ask for my account removal because they don’t have a simple email address or form. Next I received an [...]

Web development security tips (PHP)

I’ve seen a lot of hacked websites lately (most because of SQL Injection). Almost all the security problems occur because us web developers assume that the users will act naturally and because we’re lazy to keep testing all the input data or wonder what if?. This is not a how to hack article, but it [...]

Chrome still not good enough

Due to recent troubles with my laptop, I’ve turned to my desktop PC again and decided to try out Chrome since FireFox wasn’t installed. I got to the point where I was accustomed to the new browser interface quite well. Then the bad stuff began: some pages looked weird. Probably Webkit doesn’t read a particular [...]

Selling your ad space

Selling your ad space

A couple of months ago I’ve decided to start selling a part of my advertising space directly. My initial price was pretty low, but still higher than what I would normally get with Adsense for that particular ad block. Overall it was a good choice. Of course there are some disadvantages: you have to talk [...]

Why Gmail is better than Yahoo! Mail

Why Gmail is better than Yahoo! Mail

… or why I use gmail for business and yahoo mail for fun. 1 – Detailed popup messages While using an instant messenger (either Yahoo or Talk) you are informed each time you receive a new message. While Yahoo chose to give dumb messages such as X new emails, on Google you can read the title, [...]

DELL XPS M1330

DELL XPS M1330

I’ve been wanting to write a review for this toy for some time. Apparently I am either too lazy or don’t have enough time for it. Let’s keep it short and structured: Configuration Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 HDD 250 GB 3 GB RAM nVIDIA 8400 GS 13″ LED display fingerprint reader 0.3 Mp web [...]

PHP: sending emails whenever an error occurs

Problem PHP, by default, displays an error directly in the user’s browser. Something like this is common around the web: Notice: Undefined variable: name in /abc/public_html/index.php on line 29 This is not so useful because if someone else caused this error you have no way of knowing about it and because potentially sensitive information about [...]