Archive for August, 2006

Aug24

Firewalls, Anti-virus or Just IPtables?

Personal hygiene defends from bugs, or better said proper, complete and sustained hygiene as a practice gives best results in keeping bugs away. From our body to the house habitat, then out on the streets, and so on and so forth. It’s a chore that runs from combating dust mites to clearing airports. And it […]

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Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things

Aug22

Before Blaming the Server

Users are most often misled by proprietary software false security claims —actually marketing stunts— to believe that they’re having some ‘levels’ of security on their Windows desktop computers. From this error on, users begin to assume that who else than servers should get the blame for malware and junk.
It would be hard for a professional […]

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Filed in: Securing Your e.Biz Things Web Applications


Aug15

Add Your Small Biz Map Location to your site (fast tip)

This site, WikiMapia, is a neat instant mapping tool for your small business web site. Here’s how you can map your location (1)for everyone else to see and (2)for adding a spot on the map —yes, that spot where you do business— to your web site in no time:
1. browse here: http://wikimapia.org
2. find yourself on […]

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Filed in: Search Engines Optimizing Things Web Applications

Aug5

Zooming Fonts on the Web

Zooming tips for various browsers:
1. In Firefox, press/hold the Ctrl key while rubbing the mouse wheel. It will zoom in/out the font size of the text content in the page your mouse sits over.
2. In Konqueror — same thing.
3. In Opera, the action you have to perform is identical with the aforementioned. There’s but one […]

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Filed in: Things Web Applications


Aug4

Bits on Building Inventories and Selling Online

End of July. Time to give Golria’s old site — horsefeathersmercantile.com — a new host machine, a new powering software engine and a new look. All these in spite of being swamped by couple other pending projects, bogged down by tens of thousands of feeds and pressured by the couple blogs I had to […]

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Filed in: Things Web Applications



 

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Georg first started with programming in 1981. Did some machine engineering between 1985 and 1990. Then wasted an entire decade on DTP (Desktop Publishing), pre-press and printing. Since 2000, Georg escaped the Gutenberg territory to focus on web sites development and on-demand software applications programming. Don’t tell Georg that software comes in a box…