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*Miscellaneous Fact and Fiction: The Truth About Browser Cookies
Submitted by matt 220 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)Browser cookies are one of those technical bits of web browsing that almost everyone has some awareness of. They're also probably one of the most misunderstood aspects of browsing. When it comes to browser cookies, most users have a lot of misconceptions about what they do. Here's a closer look at exactly what a browser cookie is, what it isn't, and what it's really used for.
*Programming Speed Tracer Diagnoses Where Your Web Site's Slowing Down
Submitted by matt 273 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)In their continued pledge to speed up the web, Google's launched a new Chrome extension called Speed Tracer designed to help developers diagnose what's slowing down page loads. Speed Tracer focuses on JavaScript execution in a way that other tools like YSlow and Page Speed don't.
*Miscellaneous SnowChecker Determines If Your Applications Are Snow Leopard Compatible
Submitted by matt 310 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)If you've been hesitant to upgrade to Snow Leopard for fear of application incompatibility but you didn't feel like checking compatibility lists row by row to see how your must-have applications stack up, SnowChecker makes this process a breeze.
*Tech News AVG 9 Free Now Ready for Download
Submitted by matt 328 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)Windows only: AVG 9 Free—one of the most popular free antivirus apps on the market—is now available for download.
*Miscellaneous Clean Up and Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac
Submitted by matt 1 year and 119 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)That shiny new Mac, over time it's gotten slow and crufty. Let's clean it up. Before you get started uninstalling this and deleting that, do yourself a favor: hook up an external drive to your Mac and back everything up with Time Machine or any other free alternative. The last thing you want is for your "clean up" to turn into "holy crap where did all my Documents go."
*Miscellaneous Test How Ubiquity Will Become TaskFox, No Installation Required
Submitted by matt 1 year and 153 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)Taskfox, the Mozilla project that aims to bring some of Ubiquity's action-oriented awesomeness into Firefox without extensions, is moving along, and the team wants everyone to see how it might work without any downloads required. Here's a video detailing how TaskFox works so far. TaskFox is built with only HTML and JavaScript.
*Miscellaneous Best Home Server Software
Submitted by matt 1 year and 192 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)Media files, data synchronization, and remote backups, oh my! Home computing has advanced to a point where it's practical to run your own home server, and we're running down the five best tools for the job. Covers FreeNas, Ubuntu Server Edition, Apache, Debian and Windows Home Server.
*Miscellaneous Extensoft Screen Capturer Grabs Desktop Images, Video, and Audio
Submitted by matt 1 year and 195 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)Windows only: If you need to grab both video and still screen captures, but don't have the need or budget for professional software, Extensoft Screen Capturer can do both with ease.
*Miscellaneous Most Popular Reliable and Affordable Web Hosts
Submitted by matt 1 year and 209 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)Lifehacker readers chime in on the most reliable and affordable web hosts out there. DreamHost comes in at #1.
*Programming Geek to Live: How to set up a personal home web server
Submitted by matt 1 year and 220 days ago (more from lifehacker.com)Why would you want to run a home web server? Maybe you want to download files on your home computer from anywhere. Like, say, your digital music collection. In this how-to, we'll set up a home web server that lets anyone (with the right password!) connect to your computer and download your MP3's from it.