If you’re faced with yet another website asking you to register just to do something like view their content, try using BugMeNot. While this is not an alternative to most paid services and private accounts (like bank accounts), BugMeNot does let you bypass those pesky “to read the rest of this article, register here” website [...]
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Bypass Registration and Login with Bu...
If you’re faced with yet another website asking you to register just to do something like view their content, try using BugMeNot. While this is not an alternative to most paid services and private accounts (like bank accounts), BugMeNot does let you bypass those pesky “to read the rest of this article, register here” website [...]
YouTube for Schools
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I’ve always found watching videos to be much more fun and interesting that listening to a professor lecturing for hours. It’s no mystery that YouTube has tons of educational videos on all areas of knowledge, be it science, math, or philosophy.
What has changed is that its now a whole lot simpler to find these videos and to concen [...]
What Do You Do When Software Goes Wro...
Yup, this seems about right.
In all honesty, a quick reboot solves most problems. For anything that’s a little tougher, you can just Google it. If that fails, try using DuckDuckGo (like Google, but for technology). If you still can’t solve it, ask someone.
What Do You Do When A Software Goes Wrong [via Make Use Of]
DEFCON Search and Seizure Explained
With ever-growing amounts of our information and livelihood being put online, the laws and privacy issues regarding how this information is used for and against us is being constantly reassessed. Old laws are no longer applicable, and legislators are having trouble keeping up.
From the description:
An overview of recent developments surround [...]
Geosense adds Location Awareness to y...
Most phones now have GPS in them, but laptops are being left behind. Most manufacturers don’t offer a GPS chip, and those that can be bought are expensive. Geosense aims to bring GPS functionality to your PC without the need for any expensive GPS chips or software.
Geosense uses IP and Wi-Fi lookup powered by Google to find your location, so [...]
Reclaim your Vertical Real Estate
Do you have a netbook, or a widescreen monitor? If you do, then you’ve probably run into the problem of tall web pages. These monitors force you to constantly scroll up and down to read what’s on the page. I’ve found that while this affects pretty much everything you do, the biggest source of frustration tends to be while on the internet.
To [...]
Firefox Update to 4.0.1
Firefox has received an update to 4.0.1, promising some generic performance and stability improvements. This is the first update being released for the 4.0 version of Firefox, and slightly changes the way Mozilla is handling updates.
If you’ve kept the default installation settings, then Firefox should update automatically, or at least warn [...]
Speed Up Firefox with Pipelining
Firefox is a fantastic browser. It’s infinitely extendable, with add-ons for anything you can think of. It’s stable, and pretty darn fast. But how would you like something faster? Fast is good, and it’s even better when you can do it easily.
How? Enable pipelining.
Enable what-now? We often say that the internet is a series of pipes. Well, t [...]
Wiphishing and Firesheep
How often do you use Wi-Fi? How often do you use a connection you know nothing about? If you’re on the go a lot, you’ve probably connected to hotspots that have no security, or seemed pretty dubious. So why should you care? Because you may find yourself the next victim of wiphishing (also known as an evil twin). This is when a hacker sets up [...]
How to Set Up a Ubuntu Virtual Machin...
These days, a lot of us use more than one computer; which also means we tend to work on more than one OS. In my situation, I use Windows 7 on my main rig, but also need to run Linux programs for research purposes. Now, I could get another computer where I can run Ubuntu, or I could dual-boot it on my main PC. But both of these are rather inc [...]
How do YOU RSS?
Keeping up with the latest news is hard. You have to go to different websites, see what’s changed, and read what you find interesting. Being in the technology sector just means that the news changes even lot faster.
So how do you keep up?
If you’re like me, you probably use RSS for keeping up with the times. But even then, there are a millio [...]
ManageFlitter Helps with Twitter Clea...
If you have a lot of people who you follow on Twitter, it can get pretty confusing. ManageFlitter is a simple tool that helps you figure out who to follow, and who you should get rid of.
ManageFlitter also tells you:
who’s following you that you don’t follow back
people you follow and don’t follow you back
persons that tweets a lot
who bare [...]
Texter Helps you Type Faster
Most people write the same things over and over again. Think of an email: Dear Person,… you may even have a whole paragraph that you always use. I’ve recently had to increase the amount of time I spend programming. Like other code monkeys may know, a lot of the stuff we write is repetitious. For example, in Java, I often write: System.out.pri [...]
Top Articles on Teknophilia [Top 5]
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mooi
I’d like to wish everyone a late “Happy New Year!”
Last year, I started Teknophilia and have tried to cover pretty much everything in the field of technology. So I thought it would be good to see which of these articles attracted the most interest.
In decreasing order, last year’s top 5 articles were:
1. Windows Media Center Customizati [...]
TinEye Reverse Image Search [Tools]
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Ever wanted to find the source of a picture? Now you can, with TinEye. TinEye is a search engine in reverse. You start with the result and work your way back to the source.
Imagine you want to look for a picture of a beach; you got to Google’s image search and look for beaches. But suppose you already have a picture, and want to know more ab [...]
Less Do, More Think [SOTW]
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colemama
“I am very concerned with how technology is used and even more concerned with how technology is talked about in education. Many people will have us believe that more technology is the way to improved education. What I have seen is that more technology leads to no fundamental change in teaching.
What is even more concerning is that [...]
How To: Add Social Media Sharing Icon...
webtreats
Yesterday, we covered how to add Social Media Profile icons to your site. Now we’ll cover how to add Social Media Sharing icons to your posts.
This tutorial should work for anyone, including those of us on WordPress.com. Most of the sites here on WordPress.com use the “Share This” feature to add social media sharing options to thei [...]
How to: Add Social Media Profile Icon...
webtreats
Social media lets us share and discover new articles and ideas. But it’s also a great way to find people who have similar interests. This is why I usually “follow” people who have an interest in science and technology. You can find out for yourself by looking at my profile on:
Digg
StumbleUpon
Twitter
Or by clicking t [...]
Forums are now Open! [Editorial]
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The official Teknophilia Forums are now open! I’ve been discussing topics and helping people out through email a lot, so in an effort to help more people with similar issues and discussions, I’ve opened up a forum where we can all interact and have it open for others to see and join in.
Some of the forums opened up so far:
Discussions relat [...]
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