Using The Internet
How To Reduce Firefox Memory Usage
Although Firefox is a great internet browser, it does have its flaws. One major flaw is its use of memory and the way it can increase over a browsing session as a result of memory leaks. Firefox 2 did a good job of fixing the majority of these leaks but many still exist, [...]
26Feb2007 | Tony Williams | 2 comments | ContinuedUseful Gmail Tips And Hacks
Sometimes I worry about my reliance on Google for web apps, and I would like to introduce some variety, but Google’s services are just too good.
Take Gmail for instance - no other webmail app comes close in terms of functionality. And don’t get me started about the cool Mobile Java client, which is lightyears [...]
Spend Less Time On MySpace With “You Got Comments”
It’s far too easy to get sucked into spending hours each day leaving comments and responding to comments on MySpace. Wouldn’t it be great if you were sent an alert whenever you received a new message, rather than logging on a zillion times a day to check for (or hoping for!) new message?
Well, thankfully [...]
Zlango - New Universal Icons For Your PC And Phone
First of all I want to say a big hello and welcome to the 800 new readers who have subscribed to my feed over the last seven days! I’m a bit nervous writing this post as I feel like there are 2000 eyeballs out there scrutinizing my every word…..
If you haven’t joined their ranks [...]
WordPress 2.1 Users: How To Offer A Full Text Feed
Full RSS feeds are like Marmite - you either love them or you hate them. I’m never quite sure which I prefer. I think at the moment I prefer full feeds because I tend to use my feedreader while I’m travelling on my cellular.
Unknown to many WordPress users who upgraded to the latest [...]
Reduce WordPress Spam By Creating Fake Comment Forms For Spam Bots
Last month I gave tips on how to eliminate WordPress Spam forever. Today I’ve got an ever better tip for reducing comment spam on WordPress blogs, but should also work on other sites with comment forms.
My friend Billy came up with a neat mod to trick these spam bots on my site, which [...]
Control Which Areas Of Your Site Are Indexed With A Robots.txt File
Sometimes there are areas of your site that you don’t want indexing by search engines - e.g. admin files or images. By creating a robots.txt file, you can tell search engine robots about what pages on your website should be crawled and consequently indexed.
A robots.txt can be created quickly with Notepad. If you are [...]
Updated List of Places To Watch TV For Free Online
My list of free resources for watching TV Online has proven so popular that I’ve decided to produce a bigger list with some great new additions. If you don’t have cable at home or if you just want to watch TV amd movies while your using your PC, then you should check out the [...]
14Feb2007 | Tony Williams | 99 comments | ContinuedHow To Add A HTML Signature To Gmail
Gmail is slowly eating away at the dominance of Yahoo! and MSN Hotmail in the wemail space, as in my view it’s brought a fresh approach to using email.
One of it’s major limitations was however it’s inability to add a HTML signature to emails. As always, some enterprising person who hasn’t seen daylight in months [...]
YouTube Music Video Browser
I was talking to my mate Th3rub3x on Google Talk today and he told me about a site he’s set up that allows you to just watch music videos from YouTube in a neat site. It’s like having your own on-demand music video station.
11Feb2007 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued

