20 Tech Habits to Improve Your Life
A few new habits can make the difference between staying on task, finding what you need, and getting things done–or having a tech meltdown.
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The 5 Best Free File Hosting Services To Store Your Files
People have a love and hate relationship with file hosting sites. Some file hosting sites are really handy and make sharing data even simpler than sending a file via email while other services spam you with countless pop ups and forced membership options to simply download a file.
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20 Websites To Help You Learn and Master CSS
This article features 20 excellent websites to help you “grok” CSS. There’s a wide range of websites included – from blogs to directory-style lists and websites that focus on one particular topic related to CSS.
Mozilla Laps Introduces Ubiquity
This Firefox add-on looks very impressive. They describe it as a way to connect the web with language to create new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. They provide an excellent video demonstrating some of its capabilities.
How To Protect MySQL Database From SQL Injection Attacks
SQL injection attacks can allow hackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands on your database through your Web site. To avoid these attacks, every piece of data supplied by a user on a Web form, through HTTP Post or CGI parameters, or other means, must be validated to not contain information that is not expected, GreenSQL is a firewall for SQL.
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30+ Plugins to Make Your WordPress Blog More Social
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Back Up a Web Server
So you’re a good little monkey and you have a backup strategy for all your local PCs. Perhaps you use rsync, Time Machine or similar backup software mirroring your files to external drives on a regular basis. That is some safe thinking that deserves a nice big pat on the back. But wait, what about your remote web server? More>>
Cheap Catalyst Could Turn Sunlight, Water Into Fuel
A new catalyst makes it feasible to split water with solar power.
MIT chemists say the catalyst, used in conjunction with cheap photovoltaic solar panels, could lead to inexpensive, simple systems that use water to store the energy from sunlight.
In the process, the scientists may have cleared the major roadblock on the long road to fossil fuel independence: Reducing the on-again, off-again nature of many renewable power sources.
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