The short answer is no but let me explain why. If you need more proof that the internet technology industry is going through yet another bubble phase, look no further than twitter. Twitter is yet more air pumped into the bubble that is the current internet industry. Pushing more air into an over inflated bubble …
Following my “Chrome market share and Matt Cutts” post yesterday I received a tweet from Matt Cutts himself asking me which browser I do use. I replied FF 3.5 and what compelling reason he could give me to use Chrome, since moving from IE to FF was an easy decision since there was a huge …
Matt Cutts, a huge fan of Chrome, has just released his own website Google Analytics statistics to show that Chrome’s share of his website visitors has climbed. This on the first anniversary of Chrome. He doesn’t of course base himself on those statistics to say Chrome’s market share is increasing, but quotes figures from Net …
Bookmarks are really useful to keep tabs on websites you come across while doing research, for example. Unfortunately the bookmark management functionality of all major web browsers is below par. Add to that the fact that the bookmarks are locked in one browser on one machine and the lack of flexibility will drive you nuts. …
If you need to access VirtualBox shared folders from a Windows Server 2008 guest OS, do not use the Network entry in Windows Explorer to map a network drive, since you will not be able to view the share. The easiest way is to load the command line in Windows Server 2008, and assuming your …
If you need to create a new copy of a VirtualBox machine, i.e. clone the machine, do not copy the vdi files directly. If you do so, when you try to add the hard disk using the Virtual Media Manager you will get an error that an existing hard disk is already mounted. VirtualBox stores …
My main development machine was running on top of Windows Vista since it was pre-installed. When I bought the machine, I had neither time or willingness to switch OS. To cut a long story short, Vista was really limiting the potential of my machine since out of the box it sucked up roughly 750MB of …
Upgrading or installing WordPress 2.7 on certain servers will give you 404 errors if you choose to use permalinks such as day and name. This depends on the PHP settings configured. If you are having this problem, the solution is the following. Create a php.ini file in the root folder where you installed WordPress and …
So you, just like me, want to change your StumbleUpon account password and are experiencing frustration. You logged into your StumbleUpon account and spent a few minutes going through the available options without finding the simple option to change your password. The simple answer is you cannot find an option if it is not there. …
What is a problogger?
Blog authors, i.e. bloggers, can be divided into many categories. The most common distinction is based on the number of people who read the author’s blog. On the internet there rarely is a middle ground. So we can break up blog authors into those whose blog is read by thousands of readers, and those whose …
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