We’ve been using Firefox here at Emudir Towers for years, ever since the dim and distant days of version 1.0. But the latest version – released just a few days ago – adds some useful and exciting features. …read more »
You may, or may not, have seen an interesting article about one chap deciding to save a load of BBC websites before the BBC delete them in the name of “saving money” (something people are dubious about as the BBC do have form for deleting important and interesting stuff and only asking questions later.
But how did he do it for so little money? …read more »
The Opera web browser has been around for a long while. Originally a shareware product, it went free a few years ago after raising enough money from purchases to become self-sustaining.
Since then, Opera have added a few more tools to its arsenal, including Unite, allowing you to share items directly from your computer, and Opera Turbo, which compresses pages on the way to you, to help make the most of slow connections. …read more »
Flock is a social web browser. Built around Facebook and Twitter, and available in over 2 dozen languages, Flock is designed to keep you up to date with your social networks, your email accounts, and your RSS feeds, all within your browser, with no third party applications required and no keeping multiple sites open in tabs. It even includes Facebook chat at the bottom of the screen at all times so you can instant message. …read more »
Let’s say you run a website, or a blog, like we do here at emudir. One of the really annoying things is getting emails saying “dude, this link doesn’t work – what are you gonna do about it?” And while it’s usually easy to do something about it, it’s nicer to get a handle on these problems beforehand and do something about them. Enter Xenu Link Sleuth.
The impressively small Xenu Link Sleuth is a Windows-only tool, designed to check a website for broken links – something it does exceptionally well, very quickly, and very reliably. …read more »
With the rise and rise of Google Chrome, it’s worth pointing out that some people have a bit of a problem with it. Yes, it’s a fine browser – fast, renders pages extremely well, great plethora of available plugins. But it does have a tendency to phone home and tell Google what you’re up to.
Enter the fine folks at SRWare. …read more »
WordPress is an open source blog management system, used to write websites such as Emudir. It competes directly with online services such as Google’s Blogger (through WordPress.com) as well as being and open source platform that you can use to write your own website. It’s fairly easy to use, and even comes with its own visual editor, similar to Word, so that you don’t need to get involved in the nitty-gritty of HTML and CSS if you don’t want to – a plethora of available themes can make your site sparkle in seconds! …read more »
