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Test and choose DNS server that performs best for you
From time to time I’ve been getting slow responses and even occasional errors, when opening some new site for the first time. By these symptoms it is likely to be an issue with domain name resolution.
Today I looked up some tools in my bookmarks and decided to test provider’s DNS servers against third party ones.
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Upgrading computer under money and parts limit
Sister had called me recently and asked if I can advice on new PC for my nephew. At which point I basically wrestled old computer and upgrade money from them before they repeated what they did last time – buying crappy unbalanced off-the-shelf computer.
So I ended up with very dusty box, money limit (under $600 for hardware) and crappy choice of parts – good stuff is customary gone in January (bought for gifts and not restocked because of customs on vacation).
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QuotePad – simple and efficient notes app
I had posted about PNotes that allows to nicely replicate post-it-like notes in computer. However that approach can also replicate mess that paper notes often make.
QuotePad takes different approach and allows to keep notes and text snippets in the form of timeline.
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PageZipper bookmarklet for paginated articles
If there is one feature that is almost sure way to turn me away from site it is multi-page articles. It is debatable if that approach serves some purpose or not, but it is a fact that some sites stick with it.
I knew there are tools to deal with that in theory, but nothing really jumped at me as viable solution for Opera. Today I wanted to skim article on PHP IDEs (I currently use NetBeans) and remembered that Samer recently posted about PageZipper tool to sew multiply pages of article together.
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Plugins in Opera
Opera is commonly referred to as lacking plugins, but it is not entirely accurate. It doesn’t have easy and abundant plugins and relies more heavily on native functions.
Otherwise it does support third party plugins in a form of DLL files which allows common bells and whistles, such as Flash to work.
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xpy and Vispa – tweakers for Windows
With Windows 7 being actually decent OS I cannot stay in denial of anything after XP. Some utilities I cover can be oldies that are no longer relevant to those using recent Windows versions.
xp-AntiSpy was one of such so I am making up for that with this post on xpy and Vista – set of Windows registry and file tweakers.
Do you read any sites for comments alone?
In the end I found some of the most interesting discussions where I never expected to – on social news sites.
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