TechKnack

Over my spring break, I decided to spruce up my blog a bit (read: redesign). Unfortunately, I am design-challenged and too cheap to pay someone to create a new design for me. So I started perusing the designs available at OSWD, and found a nice template called Blue Spring.
After finding, downloading, and [...]

While perusing the AdSense Optimization Tips, I came across a section on Blogtimizing, optimizing ad placement on a blog. That article, however, linked to the more interesting concept of section targeting – the idea of super-targeting your ads to a specific section of content, rather than all content on the page (which, on a [...]

Digg is a great source of traffic and popular news. Quite obviously a very popular website. However, its popularity has resulted in so many stories “getting Dugg” that, while Digging a brand-new story, it is almost inevitable to get a “We think you’re duping us” alert. Frankly, it’s getting quite ridiculous, if [...]

Just yesterday, the IE Team announced that they will be changing IE8’s default behavior. Instead of the previously decided default of “IE7 Mode”, IE8 will default to “IE8 Mode” with the option to switch to IE7 mode with the X-UA-Compatible meta tag. Web developers rejoice!
Additional links:
QuirksBlog: IE team changes its mind on IE8 [...]

This has been a point of frustration for me since I first wanted to add “Create new .doc file” to Konqueror’s context menu. To the best of my knowledge, there is no GUI method of adding filetypes to Konqueror’s “Create new” menu, and there is little or no online documentation that details how to [...]