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Blogs today are a visitor’s nightmare

June 23rd, 2025 · No Comments

It’s pretty amazing to think that the Internet, which is practically a basic daily commodity for most of us, is only about 35 years old. As I’m 55 years old when writing this post, I still remember when blogs had funny backgrounds, a visitor counter at the bottom, and little animations. Blogs were personal online […]

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Tags: Internet · Social Media

Reversed Evolution – When Progress Is Making Simple Things Complicated

June 28th, 2014 · No Comments

What is a reverse evolution? It’s when things go backwards instead of going forward. It’s making a new product that is less functional and less user friendly than the old product. It is mostly annoying when it comes to products you use daily and depend on, like your Email account or your preferred browser or […]

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Tags: Computers · Internet · Software

How to Check if an Online Store Is Real and Trustworthy

March 9th, 2014 · No Comments

Shopping online can be secure and safe when you buy at known online stores like Ebay etc. But you sometimes bump into online stores that you don’t recognize, that offer good deals. In this case there are two things you should check: Is this store real and not some scam? If it’s real, is it […]

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Tags: Internet · Shopping

Changing Firefox Address Bar Search To Google’s

January 6th, 2013 · No Comments

As far as I remember Google is the default address bar search. But sometimes a software you install, changes this value without your consent or by mistake (to Conduit, or whatever). To switch back to the good old Google do the following: Open firefox Type about:config in the address bar and hit the Enter key […]

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Tags: Computers · Internet · Software

Gmail manager login problem – fix for Firefox 7+

October 6th, 2011 · No Comments

If you use this great add-on, use the following link to reinstall a patched version automatically. Clicking this link will then make firefox ask if you want to install. Click yes and that’s about it. Firefox will have to be restarted for the change to take place. https://github.com/downloads/athomas/mozilla-firefox-addons/gmail_manager-0.6.4.1.4-fx+sm.xpi If you want to do it manually, […]

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Tags: Internet