Web pages can contain a lot of content and be very long. Too long in fact to create a screenshot by hitting the print screen button on your keyboard. So what we need is a utility called IECapt that takes the screenshot of the entire web page. Continue reading
Pakistani Finance Ministry uses stolen blog design!
Sometime back there was a story floating around cyberspace about how the British PM’s blog used a design without crediting the original author and thus violating copyright laws. Now it turns out that the Pakistani finance ministry wants to try their own hand at blogging and its gone and done a similar misdeed by using a design without crediting the original author.
Reduce CPU load with Alternative PHP Cache
PHP is by far the most popular scripting language for dynamic web pages but it is not the most efficient language. Each time a PHP page is accessed it has to be:
- Parsed by the interpreter
- Converted into intermediary format called opcode
- Converted into machine code for your server’s CPU to execute it
If the same script is accessed 100 times these steps are repeated a 100 times. To avoid this repetition and waste of server resources you can use the Alternative PHP Cache or APC.
APC is a PECL extension that caches frequently accessed PHP files code in opcode format for faster execution thereby reducing CPU load on your web server. In this guide I write about how to install and configure APC.
Free Email Account at Your Own Domain Name
Updated: April 8th 2016
How do you get free email hosting at your own custom domain name? It used to be so simple. You could sign up for Google Apps for domains or use Windows live but those options are no longer free. Let’s see what options are available now.
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Free email forwarding for your domain name
Namecheap offers a free DNS hosting solution for your websites. You can use it together with your domain name to create any email address @yourdomain.com that is forwarded to another email account of your choosing. Continue reading