Last night I tried to share a link to a torrent with my Facebook friends. Mind you, the movie that torrent seed was for is perfectly legal to copy and share. But, Facebook didn't mind.

"reported as abusive by Facebook users" is a dirty cheap lie. Message should read "censored by Facebook stuff". But we're not going to play that game. (Read more…)

If you have any AdSense ads on your blog, you probably know that you can filter them, thus excluding those that are not matching the content of your site. But, is it a wise idea? While it sounds reasonable to have targeted ads on your blog, it might be different in the practice.  (Read more…)

Familiar scenario: You log into FaceBook and chat window starts popping-up. Everybody, known and unknown who has nothing to do is poking you for a chat? OK, here's what to do. (Read more…)

Downloading a video from YouTube or similar sites is something that pops up as a question so often. You can always reach the video and watch it, but what if you need it off-line or at a place without an Internet connection? Or if you want to edit it? Then you use one of the video downloaders. My favourite being Media Converter. (Read more…)

I thought I'll never have to write this one, and I apologize to all of you who find this explanation as a surplus. Internet and web are not synonyms. (Read more…)

I have that weird fondness of working on a website in vivo. That is, directly on the web so that every change is immediately visible. That includes all the missteps and mistakes like crashing the theme in front of the eyes of readers, too. Now taking one step forward, this post is my personal plan and checklist for setting up this blog. It is something that I'm supposed to do on a piece of paper but this way, it may be of use to other bloggers and there is no risk of myself losing the precious piece of paper. At the end, when each bullet is checked, it may be useful as a roadmap through one category of this site. So, what should be done in the first phase of blog's life? (Read more…)

Another one is born just couple of minutes ago. When I press save it will ping its first cry to Technorati. In some hours (or minutes?) uncle Google will send its bots to see the newcomer. In the meanwhile, plug-ins should be installed, and some layout prepared.

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