I spent a few hours this past weekend working on some performance optimization for the site. This site is run on the WordPress blogging software which has tons of great plugins available to add functionality. The downside to this is that most plugins tend to slow the website performance slightly. The exceptions to this are …
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avast! 5.0 is a free antivirus program available for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP. It is a fairly full featured virus scanner similar to AVG free. Some of its key features are: Silent/Gaming Mode Anti-rootkit protection Automatic updates Boot time scanning (32 bit only) Scheduled scanning Wake up for scan (wakes up Windows …
Continue reading avast! 5.0 Free Antivirus for WindowsIf you’re using the proprietary Nvidia graphics driver in Ubuntu Linux, your system has the ability to rotate the video display. Why would you want to do this? Well, I have an HP w2207 wide screen monitor that can rotate into portrait mode. This can be handy for editing long documents or working with portrait …
Continue reading How To Rotate The Screen in Ubuntu With The Nvidia DriverToday I’m going to show you how to install the Lynx web browser in Ubuntu 10.04. Lynx is a text only web browser that runs from the Linux terminal. Why install Lynx? Why would you want to run a browser like this? Well, the reason I run it is because it shows you how a …
Continue reading Lynx: A Text Only Web BrowserIf you’ve been looking for a nice WebKit based web browser for Linux, Midori is a browser worth checking out. Although it’s still in early stages of development (the current version is 0.2.5,) it provides a fairly complete set of features for a web browser. Some of the more advanced features include user scripts and …
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