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Have you ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the Internet that often take longer to load than anything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus on Firefox and get rid of them. Select a filter subscription when Adblock Plus starts up the first time, the filter will remove most advertis...

Foxmarks is now known as Xmarks, the tool adds in site discovery features. The Xmarks plug-in shows you sites similar to the one you're on, based on what other users have bookmarked and where they've filed those bookmarks. The plug-in also gives you additional information in search results, letti...

open source Any software whose code is available for users to look at and modify freely. Open Source Projects are typically organized by groups in order to reach a common goal. Members give their time freely to the project and the final product is given freely to the public (although there may co...

The benchmark tests have starting coming in for Apple's new Safari Web Browser release, and by the looks of it Apple wasn't exaggerating, Safari 4 Beta is considerabely faster than most browsers being used by the public. In fact ZDNet reports that the browser is a staggering 42 times faster at r...

The term bandwidth actually has multiple meanings in the Tech Community. In certain discussions bandwidth is the amount of data that can transfer over a network in a specified period of time. Bandwidth determines the rate at which information can be sent through a channel - the greater the bandwi...

Apple today announced the availability of the Beta version of their web browser. Hands on reviews are pretty favorable pointing out the new Top Sites feature, a page that displays your most visited our favorite sites in a 3-D display. To make better use of screen real estate the tabs have been mo...

PHP (Self-referentially short for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)PHP is an open source programming language that allows for the creation of dynamic (database driven) web pages. PHP commands are embedded into a standard Web page, but are processed and removed from the page by the Web server when the ...

Microsoft has announced it is to release new updates for PCs running the Windows 7 beta next week, and at the same time seeding the Release Candidate build of Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 to a select group of testers. Vista SP2 will include all previous updates and pat...

Blog (Abbreviation for weblog) - A publicly accessible personal journal stored on a Web site. Blogs have become increasingly popular but takes some commitment to continue adding new content on a frequent basis. Continuous posting new content is very important in order to give users reason to come...

Firefox users know the joy that is Add-ons. Add-ons add additional functionality and features to the Firefox web browser. We will occasionally focus on a helpul add-on the we use regularly. Today we look at Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer: Foxmarks is the essential bookmarking add-on. Install Foxm...