Archive for August, 2008

Using .htaccess to set a custom 404 page

August 31, 2008

This should be a decent, if short, follow-up for the recent post about using PHP for redirects. If you want to build a custom 404 page to avoid visitors seeing whatever 404 page their browser presents then try this in your .htaccess file:
ErrorDocument 404 /notfound.html
Or maybe you don’t want to actually build a custom [...]

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PHP Redirect – flexible and even scripted redirection

August 30, 2008

Generally speaking I prefer 301/302 redirects in .htaccess because I find on a domain-wide basis they are easier to manage since all redirects are in one handy file. Sometimes, though, redirection with PHP is a better fit, and since I’ve not remembered to add this little bit to my Dreamweaver Snippets, I thought maybe someone [...]

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Google Calendar gains flexibility, responds to user feedback

August 30, 2008

Google Calendar was the answer to my search for a way to better manage important events from more places. Google Calendar gives me the flexibility of managing my calendar from anywhere there’s a computer with Internet access.
The Google Calendar team recently made some improvements based on user feedback, and posted Little things that matter on [...]

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The Future of Anti Virus

August 23, 2008

ZDNet blog’s No more need for an antivirus software? article about a recent University of Michigan study on Next-Generation Anti Virus, called CloudAV, is an interesting read, but I wonder about the feasibility of a CloudAV-like product altogether replacing Anti Virus on your personal computer.
ABOUT CLOUDAV
CloudAV uses multiple Anti Virus engines, so there is no [...]

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What are our future Presidential candidates reading?

August 20, 2008

Did you ever wonder what Obama, McCain and other political pundits are reading? Well you can check it out in Google Reader. You can take a look at the Gmail blog’s See what Obama, McCain and leading political pundits are reading or you can jump right to Google Reader’s “Power Readers in Politics” page.
Happy reading!

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