Sismics Reader: A Simple Local Alternative To Google Reader

You are most likely aware by now that Google Reader is dead. You may have moved on to Feedly, like many of our readers, or one of the other great Google Reader alternatives. But what happens if your chosen service decides to call it quits? Or what happens if their servers go down? The only 100% reliable way to not have your hopes and dreams crushed by another RSS service is to host your own. That’s where Sismics Reader comes in. Sismics Reader is an open source, free alternative to Google Reader that allows you to host the service on...

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Sismics Reader: A Simple Local Alternative To Google Reader

You are most likely aware by now that Google Reader is dead. You may have moved on to Feedly, like many of our readers, or one of the other great Google Reader alternatives. But what happens if your chosen service decides to call it quits? Or what happens if their servers go down? The only 100% reliable way to not have your hopes and dreams crushed by another RSS service is to host your own. That’s where Sismics Reader comes in. Sismics Reader is an open source, free alternative to Google Reader that allows you to host the service on...

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Internet Censorship In The UK – Why It Won’t Work

I’m not a parent. I’ve not had the experience of creating a tiny version of myself and bringing it into the world. I’ve never experienced what it’s like to take responsibility for a tiny, innocent baby and then bring them up as best you know how. But the fundamental concept of parenthood isn’t lost on me. You have a child, and you love it and you keep it from harm with the aim of creating a happy, productive adult. It is for this reason why I can understand the motives behind David ‘webcameron‘ Cameron’s proposed mandatory, ISP level filtering of...

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How To Create System Image Backup In Windows 8.1

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Image Backup is one of the features first introduced with Windows Vista to help users easily create image backup of drives without the help of third-party tools. In simple words, a system image backup includes all drives and files required for Windows to boot and run. Generally, Windows users create a system image backup after [...]

Aero Glass For Windows 8 Setup Helps You Easily Install And Configure Aero Glass

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If you are a Windows 8 user and ever attempted to enable Aero glass transparency in Windows 8, you probably have come across a free software called Aero Glass for Windows 8 by Big Muscle. While there are a couple software around for the same job, Aero Glass for Windows 8 adds Windows7-style native Aero [...]

Fix: Start Text Appears On Taskbar After Uninstalling ViStart

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On Friday of last week, we published a guide on how to make Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 look like Windows 7 again. The guide is useful for those who aren’t happy with the new design of Windows 8 and 8.1, and provides detailed instructions on getting back the look and feel of Windows 7 [...]

PirateBrowser: A new browser by Pirate Bay to Bypass Censorship

Are you annoying with awful censorship rules in your countries or not able to access torrents sites then PirateBrowser is only for you.

The Pirate Bay launches a new web browser called PirateBrowser on its 10th anniversary eve. This browser helps internet users to bypass any ISP blocked website in certain countries such as Iran, North Korea, United Kingdom, Belgium, Italy etc.

It’s a simple one-click browser that circumvents censorship and blockades and makes the site instantly available and accessible. No bundled ad-ware, toolbars or other crap, just a Pre-configured Firefox browser.

The PirateBrowser based on the Firefox 23 Portable browser with Tor client and some custom settings.

This browser is intended just to circumvent censorship — to remove limits on accessing websites your government doesn’t want you to know about.

Download PirateBrowser from here

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Google Translate's Safe Mode

Google Translate has a new feature called Safe Mode, but it's not clear what it does. It's only for page translation and Google shows the following message: "Translated in Safe Mode. This may cause problems with some websites, especially those that use plugins like Flash. Click here to disable Safe Mode".

Google uses the "sandbox" parameter to enable the Safe Mode, so you can try it by adding "&sandbox=1" to any Google Translate URL. Here's an example for El Pais, a Spanish news site. When using the Safe Mode, the site redirects to the US version, but that doesn't happen when using the regular mode if you're not in the US.



Maybe the Safe Mode is related to this security issue.

YouTube Tests Unified Settings Control

YouTube tests a new version of the video player with a unified control for annotations, size, video quality and more.

I don't think it's a good idea to combine these settings because they become more difficult to find. Some player buttons show up only if they're useful (for example, the annotation button) and they let you disable feature with a single click. The unified control requires more clicks and doesn't show useful information at a glance.



{ Thanks, Yu-Hsuan Lin. }