USEFUL ONLINE IMAGE IDENTIFIER
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Search across 146 billion images instantly with our advanced image recognition technology.' Go here: PicDetective.com... read more

SYNDICHAIN LAUNCHES FIRST VERSION OF ITS OPEN, CENSORSHIP-RESISTANT NEWS AGGREGATOR
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Since Syndichain is built on a public blockchain, its data is also open and public. Every post, comment, and like is stored on a distributed public ledger which can be viewed at any time via Syndichain's block viewer....... read more

POSSIBLY USEFUL STRIP TAGS TOOL
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Like, maybe you saved an email as HTML but want to remove most of the code/gobble-de-gook. Click here: Strip Tags Tool or use the form inserted below (assuming it shows up for you). Sorry your browser does not support inline frames.... read more

A GUIDE TO UTF-8 ENCODING IN PHP AND MYSQL
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UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding that can represent every character in the Unicode character set. It was designed for backward compatibility with ASCII and to avoid the complications of endianness and byte order marks in UTF-16 and UTF-32. UTF-8 has become the dominant character encoding for the World Wide Web, accounting for more than half of a... read more

TIME TO SWITCH FROM FIREFOX TO ANOTHER BROWSER
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If this is true, it looks like a good time to get rid of that pesky control freak of a browser, Mozilla Firefox in favor of the Brave, Edge, Opera, Safari or Chrome browsers. Of course, three of those browsers (Edge, Safari, Chrome) are owned by companies with a history of censorship, so.... you should probably download and use Brave, Opera and wha... read more

FIX THOSE FACEBOOK-MANGLED LINKS TO YOUR SITE
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I was unaware that Facebook recently had started to add a unique click identifier to all outbound links on facebook.com. Coincidentally, one of the security measures of this server is to disallow query strings as part of the URL. Thus, any visitors coming over from Facebook were suddenly blocked and banned on sight. I receive no traffic to speak ... read more

OPTING OUT OF ADS
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Useful site here to opt out of various online ads: yourchoices.com. Some of the biggest name brands always seem to be conveniently unavailable.... read more

PLLEEAASSEE REEAADD!!! IT WAS ON GOODMORNING AMERICA!!!
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It's a very old hoax. Anything with a headline like Plleeaassee reeaadd! It was on Good Morning America! and mentioning Microsoft, AOL and Good Morning America in the same email almost HAS to be a hoax these days, and this one is. On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:05 PM:This is probably a hoax, but just in case it's not, I'm forwarding it. Fi... read more

COOL FEATURE JUST DISCOVERED ON GOOGLE TRANSLATE
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I got an error in a program that was in some foreign language I didn't even recognize, let alone understand. I went to translate.Google.com and typed in one of the words and chose Detect language in the Translate from... box. It told me the word was Danish. Look here: translate.Google.com/#svenbogstaver. Amazing! I thought so, anyway. :)... read more

FAKE ANTIVIRUS MAKES UP 15 PERCENT OF ALL MALWARE
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Google: Fake antivirus makes up 15 percent of all malware Tech News on ZDNet... read more

A HEADS-UP ON RANSOMWARE
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Still a huge problem Beware of this scam. Don't bother trying to get them to help you unlock your pc: hackers-gang-russian-bust. The fix is to download, UPDATE, and run Malwarebytes.... read more

SET EMAIL TO FORWARD TO SOMEONE ELSE
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QUESTION: How do I set email (Outlook 2003) to forward to someone else while I'm out?ANSWER: In Outlook, click on Tools, Out of Office AssistantClick I am currently out of the office… and type your outgoing message, if any.Click Add Rule at the bottom .Check the Forward box and click the To button to find the new recipient in the ... read more

DOWN FOR EVERYONE, OR JUST ME?
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I LOVE this service! : Down for everyone, or just me?... read more