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One of the biggest reasons why I dumped Internet Explorer back in 2005 is that the fact that IE was no longer up to the task of handling the increasing number of pop-ups that were besieging the web. Mozilla’s awesome browser had one of the best pop-up blockers existing, and it’s pretty unmatched until now. However, we all know how most people are defecting to Google’s Chrome browser, because it pretty much showed how slow Firefox is.

Honestly, I don’t have any patience in waiting for Firefox to start, freeze a little bit, and sluggishly respond to my keystrokes when all I want to do is to take a quick peek at an Australia business directory. Chrome can do the same things in less than half the time. Continue Reading »

Everyone loves a good argument. It clears the air, it makes things exciting – and it gets the blood pumping. Even when reading, people love to have a well constructed argument presented to them – whether they agree with the opinion or not.

This may be why controversial content often works so well on the internet. Many influential bloggers swear by the technique of featuring an occasional argumentative post. It usually stirs up the conversation, if not a huge amount of controversy, and at its best can get whole sections of the web buzzing. When that buzz is about you, it can do wonders for your site’s traffic and a great SEO blog post can really make a difference. Continue Reading »

From online mapping technology to the latest venture of Google to help homeowners monitor the amount of electricity they use with PowerMeter, the company has been on the forefront of internet technology for a long long time. The much anticipated and now praised Google maps has become a very useful tool for most people who want to see the world as it is and for what it is. Available to the public, it allows people to learn more about the world through maps loaded with all the information they need. They added the ability to see paces of interest with street-view that is possible with extensive mapping and scanning technology that lets you stand in front of the place you were interested in. Continue Reading »

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The Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M) driver seems to be the one you’re looking for.  You desire to put that on a CD or floppy and when you start installing xp the blue screen with white text appears on the far end “Press F6 if you need to install a SCSI or RAID driver….” press F6 and put in your disk with the sata driver. I found plenty of sites with the driver download by just googling “Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH7M)”.

People with notebooks usually don’t have a USB Floppy to install SATA drivers from, so you will also have to use nLite to merge them with install CD, or search in BIOS Setup for an entry like “SATA Native mode” and set it to disabled – that will allocate legacy software to detect your HDD as a normal PATA drive.

You have to install the SATA driver earlier than turning the native support off.

So, you’re concerned about your privacy? You wouldn’t want your site to be a “view-for-all” page and be stored in Google’s cache? Then here’s the trick:

1. If you are familiar with HTML tags, insert < META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOARCHIVE" > in the
< head > part of your website.
2. If you are NOT familiar with HTML tags, either you let somebody (who has knowledge about HTML tagging) do it for you or edit it using some ready-made programs like Microsoft Front Page and do the same thing as number 1.
3. You’re done.

With this, your site will never be stored on Google servers anymore.

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The “cache” (pronounced as /cash/), is a technical term for the temporary storage of online files. A layman’s example would be this: If you search for a certain photo in Google, you will sometimes end up with an error page, saying that the photo does not exist. This means that the photo was already deleted in the main website server. Now you ask, “how come I was able to take a glimpse of the picture in thumbnail (small versions of the photo)?” That is because Google, and other search engines, take a “snapshot” at your website for faster access the next time you visit the site.

With this feature, Google has been accused of violating certain copyrights. The New York Times has a “members only” page but through Google’s cache, some non-members were able to infiltrate the paid section of the online broadsheet.

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