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Based on a spider, the service at xml-sitemaps.com will generate the increasingly popular XML sitemaps for free, up to 500 pages. Chances are, if your website has more than 500 pages, it is not a static website and you should have your sitemap generated based off your database or a plugin, if you’re using a [...]

If you find yourself in a constant pursuit for a software or service that’s better, or free but accomplishes most of what your current one does, they have a website for that, now! Bluntly named alternativeTo.net, this is a community driven website  with alternatives to popular software and services. This includes software for Windows, Mac, [...]

Recently Google researched the effect that an increase in a page’s loading time has over its visitors. They concluded that even an increase as little as 300ms has a significant impact on the user’s browsing behavior. In the 6-week experiment, 0.2 to 0.6% less searches were performed as a result of the .3 second increase [...]

There’s a free video media player that will play most video formats out there, that’s a better alternative to installing the various players that support playback of FLV, RMVB, MKV and many other video file formats that have been increasingly popular in the past couple of years. It’s called VLC Media Player and it’s available [...]

If you find yourself using Gmail often, and doing it through the browser based client, there’s an exciting theme for Gmail that you might want to have a look at. It works as an add-on in Firefox that replaces Google’s CSS file for the Gmail interface. It works for all of Gmail’s interface, skinning the [...]

All you need to determine which of the applications running are connecting to the Internet is a DOS prompt, thanks to the netstat command. Thus fire up a DOS window by entering “command” in Start Menu -> Run and type netstat -b. Wait a couple of minutes as new connections are being open by your [...]

The average person spends half a year of their lifetime sitting at traffic lights. While this great and simple concept from designer and innovator Damjan Stanković will not shorten the 6 months, it will lower the frustration of drivers waiting at traffic lights that could last anywhere from 10 seconds to 5 minutes. With the [...]

Bet you didn’t think of that! Don’t you just hate it when that one cable you need dragged itself off from the desk and into a clutter of cables piled on the small space between the wall and the desk. You could buy a cable organizer, or you can be a cheapskate and do the [...]

Everyone knows of Pandora (previously known as the “Music Genome Project”), but there’s an arguably better service out there under the name of Grooveshark.
Launched in 2007, Grooveshark originally suffered from a rather small database of songs, but it is now streaming over 60 million songs a month to over half a million people, and it’s [...]

They’re actually just 20, but they come in 10 (very appealing) color variations each. There’s one layered PSD files that you can edit to your liking, or you can download a ZIP file with the icons already sliced as PNG files. The resolution for each of the web buttons is 32×32, and they scale well [...]