tips and tricks

Check If A Page Is Really Down

October 20, 2009 Computeraholic 32 comments

I discovered a great page where you can check if a page is down for everyone or just you. This proves useful especially if there is no news on the page being down, like when Demonoid was down for a long time and there was no recent talk of what is happening to it. I didn’t know if it was just my country that was banned or if it was [...]

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How To Put The Plugoo Widget on WordPress.com

June 14, 2009 Blogaholic 20 comments

You guys. Didn’t I tell you I am not the greatest step-by-step writer in the whole world? :tongue: But still, you ask me to do tutorials. Oh well. I hope to get better at this, so what the heck. Might as well practice. At your own risk. :devil: Okay, so Fawzee (I forgot your site, sorry. But do let me know if you want to exchange links ) requested for this [...]

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Finally. A Decent Chatbox For WordPress.

June 1, 2009 Blogaholic 50 comments

Note: When I wrote this I was still on WordPress.com (they do not support the Cbox application). Now that I have my own domain, I prefer to use the Cbox widget. Ever since I started using WordPress.com, me and a good enough chatbox widget have never met. That is, until now. Okay, this may be too early to rave on this new widget, since I have only tried using it [...]

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When Windows Movie Maker Hangs

May 18, 2009 Computeraholic 13 comments

After changing to Vista a week ago (remember I was on XP a while back?), I did not anticipate the effect that it will have on my Windows Movie Maker (WMM). I use the program for doing videos for my job, and depend heavily on it, so I was quite :wow: when I tried opening it the first time with Vista and get this: “Windows Movie Maker cannot start because [...]

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How To Make Fonts Bold in Gimp

May 15, 2009 Blogaholic 38 comments

Now, before you all come up with the idea that I am an expert in Gimp, let me just state this clearly: I AM NOT. I came up with this workaround because I did a button with GIMP sometime ago and no matter how closely I look on Gimp’s toolbar, I can’t find said feature of bolding a text. So I Googled for an answer after having found out that [...]

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