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How to Check For Dead Links

No more dead links

There are a few simple and lazy ways to check for dead links. The methods to use depend on whether you want to check a list of links in a text file or you want to check for dead links within a website. We all know that checking for dead links manually by clicking each one of them is a very long and boring task. Thankfully I have found - after a very long search - a few incredibly handy URL checking scripts. This short guide is split into two parts: Checking for Dead Links Within a Website Checking Links from a Text File Finding dead links is an easy task with help from the tools … [Read more...]

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Get the Best of All Worlds with Virtual Machines

Image via Wikipedia Virtual machines are those fascinating bits of software that enable us to run several operating systems on one computer without using multiple hard disks, multiple partitions and duel or multi boot systems. Virtual machines are handier for computer enthusiasts than ice is for an Eskimo. They allow us to try multiple operating systems without wiping hard drives to install them; try an application that doesn't work on our favourite operating system; share our computer between several people simultaneously by letting several operating systems use the same hardware; … [Read more...]

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All About the GIMP – A Simple User Guide

Image via Wikipedia In an earlier article I said that GIMP was the most unintuitive, unfriendly graphics package I've ever had to use. Now, since using it more, I stand by "unintuitive" but I think it's fantastic; and I hope to convince you of the same with this little guide to using GIMP. My problem with GIMP was my attitude: I thought it was an arts package that could be used like KolourPaint, Paint or Painter. I thought it was something I could use to create simple pictures or masterpieces (ahem, in my own mind only ). Because I couldn't, well, didn't know how, I was frustrated by GIMP … [Read more...]

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Backing up your Firefox Profile without FEBE

This is actually quite easy. 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. I've discovered three downsides to FEBE: it isn't always reliable (I recently lost a lot of bookmarks through an improper backup), FEBE must be installed before a profile can be … [Read more...]

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