Web Talk

If you work or play on a computer shared with other people such as friends, family members, coworkers etc, you might feel the need to protect your files, settings and private information in a way that nobody, except you, will ever be able to read or modify them. Here are the links to a couple of articles explaining you how to prevent users from changing your display settings, disable the registry, prevent users from changing the color scheme,  and protect your programs and computer games. If you want to improve your privacy further, you might even set up a hidden user account so that nobody will ever be able to know you are using the computer. Here is the simple hack for Vista and XP. Continue reading »

I have already written about how to permanently delete your files from your computer  in another post I wrote last year. Anyway, since I feel that one never speaks enough of such a topic, I have decided to write another post  to help you destroy your private information beyond recovery. Continue reading »

My blog is hosted at Bluhost.com: a cheap web hosting provider with a really superb support and a wonderful Cpanel rich of features. That said, lately I have been looking around in order to give Web Talk  more resources to face a growing increase in terms of visitors (at the time I am writing I have around 2.500 daily visitors) and articles ( I have written around 1.300 articles so far) . Looking for more resources, most of time means looking for a better hosting provider, and looking for a better hosting provider means to get a company offering VPS or dedicated servers (Bluehost just offers shared servers). Since my experience with Bluehost.com has been quite positive so far (well, apart from the  24th of December 2008 where my blog was deactivated with no warning. Naughty Bluehost!) a couple of days ago I decided to contact (again) their sale support and know if there was something  boiling in the pot. As usual, I got the same reply namely: ” No, we do not have any VPS or dedicated server. If you are looking for something like that I advice you to move your blog to this hosting provider www.xyz.com”.  What? What kind of reply is this? Is it possible that their sale support advice me to look somewhere else, also providing me the web address of their “competitor” ? That’s why I decided to write an e-mail to Matt Heaton, the President and CEO of Bluehost.com, to know something more. Here is my e-mail and his short reply which make me understand that something is really boiling in the pot for Bluehost clients! Continue reading »

One of the latest features available in YouTube is the chance to post comments and text within a video. Anyway, not all people like being bothered by stupid comments and remarks while watching videos. Here is a quick trick to disable such a feature for good. Continue reading »

Playing everywhere with your PlayStation Portable (PSP) is nice, but wouldn’t you like to use it for other goals in order to get help when you are studying  or when you are abroad?  Continue reading »

During this time of economic crisis it would be nice to get a laptop without spending a lot of bucks, isnt’ it? Sadly, the guys at Apple don’t think like that and continue producing expensive computers  which not everybody can afford to buy. That’s the case of Lauren who, on a strict $1000 budget, would love to buy a laptop with a big screen. But, hey! this is the new anti-Apple Microsoft ads! So what do you think? Is it not cool enough to be a Mac person? Continue reading »

Lately, The Piratebay has been on the rise. As a matter of fact, the world’s largest bittorrent tracker, after the release  of personal RSS feeds which allow users to bookmark torrents and download them remotely, has launched a new interesting service which lets you share your favorite bittorents directly from your Facebook personal page. In fact, if you visit any Piratebay torrent details page you will notice a small button labeled “Share on Facebook”. Just click such a button to be sent to  Facebook  where the torrent will be added to your profile automatically. It will be sufficient, for a friends of yours visiting your page, to click the torrent to begin downloading it right away without any need for him to visit the Piratebay original page where the torrent comes from.  Handy, isnt’ it? I am pretty sure that the  entertainment industries won’t be happy with it at all!

That’s not the first time I speak about freeware photo editors. You may want to read these articles about free utilities such as  Foto2Avi, Paint.NET, and PhotoShop Express.  Anyway, lately it looks like there are a lot of good alternatives to well-known, expensive photo editors which ofter are very heavy to install and make your PC rather slow. As a matter of fact, thanks to the silent Web 2.0 revolution, most of these alternatives are web-tools providing professional interfaces at no cost! Here is a good example. Continue reading »

Believe it or not but a couple of days ago I got an issue which, despite it looked  trite, it took me almost an hour and a half to figure how to solve it. The case was quite simple. I wanted to integrate a Google Custom Search box at the end of my posts and I wanted its results to be displayed on a specific page. Basically, when my visitors used the Google Search they didn’t have to leave my blog. The steps explained in the wizard procedure were quite simple and made me picture a quick and easy result. However, when the search results were displayed within the page of my blog they were too wide, overriding my blog’s theme. Here is an example of what I got.  Continue reading »

If you are running a WordPress blog, you might want to keep a keen eye on its plugins to know how many queries and the time required to process them they are producing on your web pages.  This is particular useful if you are trying to optimize your database in order to save the resources your server has assigned to your blog.  Here is a simple code to add to your blog’s pages. Continue reading »