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Nobody likes advertisements on websites. Big animated banners and flash ads slow down the entire web surfing experience and they can be a real pain especially if you are still stuck on dial up like me. Fortunately there is a simple and safe solution. You just need to download two things and you'll never suffer a pop up or see an ugly banner again.

• Firefox web browser - Firefox includes pop up and pop under ad blocking and an extendable architecture that allows you to add functionality to it. There are hundred of free firefox extensions available. Firefox also supports tabbed browsing which allows you to open multiple web pages under different tabs in a single Firefox window. This helps reduce onscreen clutter
• Adblock Plus - This is one of the most popular firefox extensions and with good reason. Adblock removes ads according to filters specified in a blacklist file. You can specify your own filters and/or subscribe to publicly available optmised blacklists. Your subscriptions are automatically updated thereby ensuring that you rarely see any ads.

Together these two downloads can stop almost all ads.

One of my favourite all time games transport tycoon is now available for free on the Internet! Transport tycoon is a classic game that I used to love playing as a kid. Its a strategy game where you play as the owner of a transport company. You have to develop transport routes between towns and ship cargo and passengers. As a player you can transport raw materials to factories and power stations. You can also transport finished goods to developed towns. You can build airports, train stations, docks and bus stations and transport goods and people by land, air or sea. And as with every business you'll have to deal with competitors who try to take over your market share. Its is indeed real time strategy gaming at its finest!

Direct Download link to windows version 4.28MB

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Amazing how much things can change in just a few weeks. When I checked my site's page rank a few weeks ago it showed 0 PR but after the recent google page rank update its jumped to 5! I remember reading an article some time back that suggested that google denies page rank to new websites. It gave the example of a site that went from 0 PR to 7 after 4 months! Now I know that this effect is known as the sandbox effect. And so it is with my site. Roughly three and a half months from the time I registered this domain it has finally got a page rank! And straight to 5 at that. I just have the biggest grin I could possibly have *g*.

Every budding programmer needs a few code examples now and then just to see how things are done. Perhaps thats why google has gone and implemented google code search. Just type in the function you're interested in and google happily fetches code snippets from open source projects worldwide. You can even restrict results to particular languages like php. Hmm... does this make help files and manuals obsolete? Ah the wonders of modern technology.