Category: Software
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Free icons of good quality
Mark James, a part-time web developper, produced more than a thousand slick little icons that are distributed freely on famfamfam.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, which means that if you want to use them, you only have to remember to state clearly that Mark James is the author and…
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Free audio books
Librivox is a web site where you will find audiobooks read and recorded by volunteers who give them freely to you and any visitor. It is mostly english books and works, but there starts to appear a few non-english literature (some French, some German, for example). The selected works are part of the public domain…
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Bad modem/routers for P2P
I recently found a intersting list of modems/routers that do not survive well with P2P applications (let’s remember here that these applications can be very stressful for a network and its devices: hundreds or thousands of connections with a total traffic usually reaching the maximum limit of the network link). This is a list of…
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BitComet v0.7x configuration
As the PC I use to run BitComet is rather old (it’s still running under Windows 98) it is easy to believe that this configuration is a good basis that will work on any small machine and old configuration for BitTorrent. Cet article traduit en Français Of course, it would also work very well on…
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Javascript to reload a web page
I recently had a little problem to solve: I want to update (very) quickly the display of a web page. For this kind of job, there is usually the easy solution to write the command in the headers of the HTML page using the META REFRESH tag, but this is acceptable only if you meet…
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Search (free) photos by color
I had already told you about Yotophoto, the image search engine allowing you to choose the kind of copyright or legal rights associated to the image (and, thus, giving you an east way to find free images for your web site, while keeping you in the legal high road). Today, Yotophoto disclose another very interesting…
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Audit your Unix process list
When you are managing a Unix machine (it is about the same thing for GNU/Linux machines), you are often interested in maintaining a good level of security. For this, one of the most important things is to ensure that the process list (the list of all activities) is containing only secure processes. Checking this is…
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AdSense-Deluxe to ease Google advertisment on a WordPress web site
For some time now, I use a small plug-in that I feel is quite nice to help me manage specifically the advertisment banners from Google AdSense on my web site. You may have already noticed one or two of those ads that appear right in the body of a posted article. Usually, it is quite…
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6mn to move to OpenOffice
You are thinking about moving from Microsoft Office (expensive commercial bloatware ;-)) to OpenOffice (free). A few questions you can ask to orgniaze your transition, before you jump ahead.