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Ever wonder how the Internet looked like 10 years ago in 1997? Now thanks to The Wayback Machine (otherwise known as Internet Archive), we can get a glimpse of the Internet from the past.

Yahoo!
Then (January 1997) and Now
Yahoo! to Go

Slashdot
Then (January 1998) and Now
No matter how cynical you get, it’s [...]

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PureBlogging is a fairly new blog in town which focuses on blog news, tips and tutorials, monetization from your blog and the likes. Therefore, you can say it shares some common objectives with ProBlogger which is a very popular blog on making money online with 35,000 to 50,000 unique visitors a day.
PureBlogging is [...]

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A list of things which make a good and sensible programmer (software engineer, developer).
1. Share everything.
Use open source where possible, and contribute to it when you are able. The collective wisdom of the entire community is better than the limited vision of a few large companies.
2. Play fair.
Give other technologies, frameworks, methodologies and [...]

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If you are using any WordPress Themes from esn studio, you might like to download latest versions from WordPress Themes page. You don’t have to update it if you don’t want to as old versions will still work just fine, but I suggest you do in order to take advantage of newly added features. [...]

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My current Technorati rank is 111,111. Cool number, eh!
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The web is so large
Almost boundless in its scope
Emphasis: “Almost”
- A No-Results-Found message by alpha (beta) search
Yahoo!7 (An Australian and New Zealand Yahoo!) has released a web 2.0 aggregated search engine called alpha. I know what you are thinking, because I was thinking the same thing too; Yahoo! has already got a search [...]

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Max Design will be presenting a CSS and Accessibility workshop in major cities in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Brisbane) next month. The two-days course will cover Accessibility* and semantic markup on the first day and then it is basically all CSS on the second day.
According to the course website, the course [...]

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popuri: Check your site’s popularity using this cool ajax tool
Feed Digest: Mix, convert, and republish feeds
Feed Icons: Home of the standard web feed icon
Ajaxload: Ajax loading gif generator
Ping-O-Matic: Start ping-ing away!
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While WordPress offers almost every functionality you need for running a blog, there are a few things missing when using it as a Content Management System (CMS) for a corporate website. The following plugins are considered must haves (by me) because they provide various functionalities which contribute to a successful website but do not [...]

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Google has always been very creative with its April Fool’s jokes. Last year, it was of a dating service which would put RSVP and every other dating service on the Internet to shame.
And this year? Well, this year, they have a free in-home wireless broadband service with a witty tagline – [...]

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