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Link Round-Up: July 24, 2009

24 Jul 2009  Links

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3 Ways to Speed up Your Site with PHP – These days, with broadband connections the norm, we don’t need to worry as much about internet speeds or the filesize of our pages. However, that’s not to say that we still shouldn’t do so. If you wish to reduce the load times on your server, decrease the number of HTTP requests, and go that extra bit for your visitors, there are a few techniques that you can use. This tutorial covers a number of PHP tricks, including caching and compression.

5 TED Talks on Science That Will Blow Your Mind – Some of the most entertaining, informative and mind-blowing science videos on the web come from TED – the Technology, Entertainment, Design conference. Challenged to give the “talk of their lives,” the world’s top scientists and science communicators have been dazzling audiences – many of whom are thought leaders, trend-setters and entertainers – for years now.

15 Really Useful Web-based HTML Editors – Web-based HTML Editor, WYSIWYG editor, or rich text editor, is a web component that let users enter rich text input within the browser. Most of the time, these html editors are used within content management systems where administrators or authors can easily create posts and contents from the backend system.

15 Things You Can Remote Control With Your iPhone – Everything from your television to your camera can be controlled using your iPhone now. Business Insider has an extensive list.

Act.ly – An online tool for circulating petitions via Twitter… though I wonder how effective any petition can really be with only Twitter users backing it.

Detexify – A neat little tool that let’s you draw a symbol and then finds the corresponding LaTeX notation.

Fix Your Terrible, Insecure Passwords in Five Minutes – Slate offers up a foolproof technique to secure your computer, e-mail, and bank account.

Web 2.0 Collage – This site shows how easy it is for strangers to determine your browser history by constructing a collage of the favicons of the sites that you’ve visited. Many of us consider our browser history to be private, but that is no longer the case. Any website you visit can determine your browser history by exploiting the very features designed to enhance your internet experience, a fact many people are not aware of.

Discussion

15 Things That Would Greatly Improve iPhone 3.0
Are “Hopeless” Copyright Wars Against P2P “Our New Prohibition?”
Why a search deal with Microsoft would be the beginning of the end for Yahoo

Tech News

Feds buried data proving that handheld tech dangerously distracts drivers
Google’s Android To Invade Homes
Google promises “the end of viruses”
If You Buy a Computer That Costs Over $1000, It’s Probably a Mac
Mac OS X gets rootkit coding manual
Scientists demonstrate wire-free electricity
Windows 7 RTM Leaked to BitTorrent Last Week

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