Ha! This is neat, good ole’ Canada – Many USA ecommerce shops don’t send their goods to Russia or to the countries of the Ex-USSR. Some shops send but delivery costs differ greatly from the homeland ones, they are usually much bigger. So what did some Russians invented? They got a way to fool the […]
Xdebug is a powerful PHP extension that can help you track down bottlenecks in your PHP code. From the Xdebug profiling howto: The profiler in Xdebug 2 outputs profiling information in the form of a cachegrind compatible file. This allows you to use the excellent KCacheGrind tool (Linux, KDE) to analyse your profiling data. Users […]
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Firefly, formerly mt-daapd, is an open source digital audio server that can stream your music library to iTunes. Linux appears to be the most supported platform, but there is also beta support for Mac OS X, Windows, and even the AppleTV! One of its cooler features is that it’s capable of transcoding your music files […]
We’ve written before about using services like Google’s translation software to bypass web filters and access censored/restricted content online, but this really only scratches the surface of the various technologies that can be used to bypass online censorship systems. Reporters Without Borders put together a nice article on the subject, which discusses both the merits […]
The Firefox Web Developer Extension and Firebug plugins are two very cool tools for editing and debugging HTML and CSS. Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror had this to say: I can’t imagine debugging a web app without these two essential tools, which transform Firefox into the Visual Studio of browsers. It’d be akin to writing […]
Google released a new feature called Google Web History. Once you’ve enabled it, Google will start recording your entire browsing history. It does this by using grabbing information from the Google toolbar that is sent for every page you access when you have Pagerank enabled. I’m not sure how comfortable I am with giving Google […]
