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News has it that in the very near future, organisations will be able to purchase personalised top-level domain names such as .bank, .wine, .school, .microsoft, etc.

Currently all web addresses fall under one of a set number of top-level domain names. There are 240 .country or .territory domains, and some 20 generic ones, from [...]

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DELETE FROM `tablename` WHERE `created` < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 5 DAY);
DELETE FROM `tablename` WHERE `created` < DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 1 MONTH);

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One of the reasons why many people do not change their default security key for their wireless network router is because they do not know how to encrypt them into 64/128/152/256-bits HEX format. But with these WPA/WEP key generators, you can sleep better at night knowing that your wireless network is no longer using [...]

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It looks like google takes into account the location of your web server/host when ranking its search results. As most people know, in google search you can specify if you would like to search for pages from a specific country.
Let’s see what impact the location of the web [...]

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Finally, google has written an official blog post about its new favicon. Apparently, what you are seeing is not the final version – google’s design team is still working towards a more unified set of icons for the brand.

Favicon iterations
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To resolve Utf-8 encoding problem that you experience when you restore a MySQL database, here is a quick and easy fix.
You will first need to make sure that appropriate encoding/collation (eg: utf8_bin, latin1_swedish_ci, etc) is being used for your database and tables before you attempt the following steps.
1. Open your [...]

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Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 128 bytes) in /home/yoursite/public_html/index.php on line 1051
The above error is caused by not having enough memory to execute the requested page.
You can adjust the memory limit at run time by specifying the following at the very beginning of your php file (eg: index.php)
ini_set(‘memory_limit’,'12M’);
Or [...]

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If Dreamweaver crashes during site cache rebuild at start up, here are a few things you could do to solve the problem:
1. Undo the latest code updates you made to the site that you are currently working on
2. Rename/move the cache folder (usually in C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration\SiteCache)
3. Rename the folder of the [...]

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Many people seem to be having issues with accessing certain websites using TPG Internet service provider. For those who don’t know, TPG uses an intercepting proxy (also known as a “transparent proxy”) which means if you do not specify a specific proxy server in your browser, they have a default proxy which will [...]

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Google has changed its favicon image very recently. It used to be a capital G but now they have changed it to a small g. I like the old one better; me thinks it looks more corporate.
New:
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