How To Proxy: Use Free Proxy Servers To View Restricted Websites

Sometimes websites ban or make unavailable some of their content to people in certain countries. This is often done because of copyright laws. In this article I will explain how to use a free proxy server service to bypass these restrictions. Video sites such as Hulu and television stations use this on their online video…
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Funny Google Maps Trick

Here is one to kill some time if you’re bored. Go to Google Maps and click ‘Get Directions’ from Japan to China. Follow down the list of directions and pay attention to step #42! You could just click here to go straight to the directions page too… (Don’t worry, it opens in a new window…
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Dropbox: How Did We Live Without It?

Dropbox is possibly one of the single most useful web services (besides GMail) that I have ever used. For those of you who don’t know what Dropbox is, it basically allows you to synchronise files and folders between multiple computers across any internet connection. If you install Dropbox onto 4 computers for example then any…
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Why iPhone Photos Are Dangerous!

Have you even used your iPhone to snap a picture of your children playing in the park? Perhaps you’ve taken photos of various things around your own home to share with your friends on Facebook, Flickr or MySpace. Unless you have disabled ‘Location Services’ on your iPhone’s camera you are exposing yourself, your children and…
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The Best Pure CSS Navigation Menu

First up I must apologise for my lack of blog activity over the past month or so but I have been very busy at work and then holidays over the new year and more recently working on a website, enough excuses, here is one for you web-designers out there. For the past few months I…
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World Class Web Hosting – $2 a month

A week or so a go I wrote about a free web hosting service offered by Xtreemhost, while this service is still great it did have some limitations, most notably the 4mb file size limit and the decreased performance as compared to a paid account. If you are after hosting for a small website I…
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100% Free Web Hosting – No Bull

Xtreemhost offers FREE webhosting plans that are completely ad-free and support PHP and mySQL databases.  There are a few limitations however they are pretty generous. For example there is a 4mb file size limit, 5.5gb of web space and 200gb of bandwidth per month. View the plans here for the complete run down.

Get Paid For Your Photos: A List Of Stock Photo Sites

Stock Photo Sites That Pay For Your Photos Because of the Internet, it’s now easier than ever for photographers to make money from their photographs and you don’t even have to be an experienced professional. Some stock photo sites will accept your photos even if you’re an amateur or hobby photographer.

How To Download Streaming Videos From Websites

Have you ever come across a video on the internet that you wanted to keep? Perhaps you want to download it on to your mobile phone so you can show your friends later without having to stream it from the internet again. YouTube and most video streaming websites like that do not allow you to…
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17 Awesome Colourful Wallpapers to Brighten Up Your Desktop

I went hunting for wallpapers for my computer the other day because I was getting sick of the one that I had. Along the way I found a great collection of 17 really bright and colourful wallpapers to spice up your desktop.

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