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Getting Your Desktop Back – The (Almost) Definitive Guide

Lee hodson — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:00:30 +0000

Despite every ounce of intuition in your body screaming “No, no, no, no, don’t do it!”, you did it anyway. You just had to click “that” button. The one that should have been big and red and marked “SELF DESTRUCT”. And now your computer’s buggered. Isn’t it lovely to have intuition give you it’s best [...]

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Faster, Safer, Ad Free Browsing with a Little Domain Blocking

Lee hodson — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:32:52 +0000

Protecting your computer’s wire tentacles from getting tangled up with the Internet’s less savory sites can be as simple as pasting a few lines of code into a file. Want to stop your teenage son or daughter downloading games to your computer? Want to stop your husband from watching porn? (we all know the computer [...]

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Tricking Servers into Letting You Access Restricted Content

Lee hodson — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:56:27 +0000

Most Internet users have hit the “I’m not talking with you” brick wall built by video distributors, YouTube, game makers or other content creators who take delight in preventing surfers in specific countries from enjoying their content. How many headaches and sleepless nights have you had because you’re unable to appreciate the song your long [...]

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Virus Email Alert

Lee hodson — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:28:31 +0000

Just a quick post to do two things: one, let you know I’m still about and, two, to alert you all to a new email scam that is doing the rounds. As the first item is self-evident, I’ll jump into the email virus warning. If any of you receive an email entitled “Please look my [...]

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Backing up your Firefox Profile without FEBE

Lee hodson — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:28:59 +0000

This is actually quite easy. Although we wont use FEBE, for those who do not know FEBE is a Firefox plugin used to back-up and retrieve user profiles. It copies and all plug-ins, themes, bookmarks and undeleted browsing history (including the cache) then compresses them into one zip file ready to be re-imported into Firefox should a profile become corrupt or destroyed, or should a profile just need copying to another computer.

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