As of today, Yahoo! are pulling the plug on Geocities; it’s kind of sad to see these websites disappear into nothing, as some were – albeit corny – quite interesting to visit. Of course, Archive.org will always exist with backups of your favourite..
Topics: Clippings, Internet, Websites

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In my never-ending quest to find the perfect note-taking application, I stumbled across nocs, a lightweight application very similar to Windows Notepad that can be used for taking text notes on the fly; the catch is that your notes are saved into Google..
Topics: Clippings, Google, Notes, Software, Sync

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Gmail’s spam folder works excellently for me, but it was only since I read this article that I realised that there were legitimate emails slipping into the spam folder.Labnol writer Amit points out that with an easy to construct filter, you can...
Topics: Clippings, Email, Gmail, Google

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August 27th. GCSE results dayEverybody my age has been looking to today with a blend of excitement and apprehension. I’m pleased with my GCSEs, my first real qualifications. I’ve left school with 13 GCSEs, all graded A*-B; 3 A*’s, 9...
Topics: Life

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Over time, as history & bookmarks are added and removed from Firefox, the browser can become sluggish; this is because this information is stored in a SQLite database, and items removed from it are just marked as ‘empty space’ instead of..
Topics: Clippings, Firefox

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