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How to Check For Dead Links

Lee hodson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:07:33 +0000

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 [...]

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Get the Best of All Worlds with Virtual Machines

Lee hodson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:55:53 +0000

VirtualBox is my favourite. It's fast, very little performance drag due to a machine's virtual nature, and once Guest Additions is installed it provides seamless integration between the guest OS and host OS. From this point on I will show you how to create virtual machines using VirtualBox. This guide includes step-by-step instructions and videos that will teach you how to

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All About the GIMP – A Simple User Guide

Lee hodson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:34:49 +0000

I'm a GIMP user, I'm proud of it and I'm shouting about it. Yes, I am impressed with it. Quite a turn around. In fact, I'm so impressed with it, I use it to create most of my website graphics and animations. Now I know how to use GIMP, I no longer need to use online graphics generators because I can more quickly make better graphics, logos, animations and buttons with GIMP.

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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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Installing RealPlayer and Flash into 64 bit Linux

Lee hodson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:44:48 +0000

It is a fact of Internet life that to experience all the multimedia riches offered by many websites you must have Flash Player and Real Player installed on your computer. This is perfectly fine for anyone who wants to install Real Player but not so good for 64-bit Linux users who want to install 64-bit Flash.

Despite the increasing number of users of 64-bit Linux, Adobe still have not released a non-beta version of the Flash library so we 64-bit Linux users are forced to manually download and install the library into whichever folder it is supposed to go. Not particularly difficult you might think except for the fact that the download does not come with instructions. Likewise, Real Player for Linux does not come with installation instructions and so this little guide to installing Flash and Real Player came into existence.

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