Author Archives: Xps
Blocking Semalt Web Crawler
The Semalt.com web crawler is useless. The services they claim to provide (if you pay) offer no better analysis on your website than the free ones you’re already using. Semalt also uses a persistent web crawler, which inflates your web statistics, ignores Robots.txt protocols, and even ignores their own Website […]
Disable Automatic Paragraphs & Line-breaks In WordPress Posts
I’ve mentioned previously that I prefer handwriting code instead of having it done automatically. When I code manually, I get the functionality and presentation exactly the way I want. One such feature in WordPress (I’ve disabled so many) counters my preference by doing something automatically. What I’m referring to is […]
Posted in: Web Development
Tagged: application, code, disable, HTML, PHP, syntax, web, web development, WordPress
Gadwin PrintScreen Blows Snipping Tool Away
In a previous article (Snipping Tool Vs. Print Screen), I mentioned how helpful screenshots can be to a technical support query to illustrate the problem you’re having, and also how two functions in Windows – the Print Screen key and the Snipping Tool – provide such help. I explained why […]
Automatically Paste To Word “As Plain Text”
When you paste content into a Word document, Word, by default, tries to maintain the formatting style of the original source. This includes things like the font family, size, color, style, and hyperlinks. While it sounds like a nifty feature, and it has been around for ages, it can be […]
Add Line Numbering To Word Documents
Line numbering is one of my favorite features of my favorite text editor Notepad++. It makes referencing a section of the document really easy. Of course, there are a handful of ways to do so in a Microsoft Office Word document, but I still love setting up line numbering in […]
Toggle Firefox 23 JavaScript Option
Firefox 23 was released earlier this week, and one thing some people will notice missing is the option to enable and disable JavaScript within the Options > Content menu. (“Load images automatically” was also removed.) Even though it’s gone from the user interface, it’s still there on the Firefox Configuration […]
Posted in: Web Browsers
Tagged: about:config, disable, enable, Firefox, JavaScript, load, update, web, web browser
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