tech tips

Gravatar: globally recognized avatars

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Denis

Surf on blogs much? Hate having to go throug the trouble of creating a new user account every time and upload a new profile picture to validate your online identity?

Or if you are web developer or just someone with a modicum of geekness like me and want to develop a website that allows its users to personalize or "brand" their interaction with your site...

Gravatar, or "globally recognized avatar", has a solution for you!

Windows Vista slow startup due to svchost.exe and large HOSTS file

Posted on November 19, 2008 by Denis

Recently I reformatted my PC, installed Vista OS and a bunch of other software, and noticed that Vista took well over a few minutes to fully startup. The delay was resolved by killing the svchost.exe process in Windows Task Manager (the one that uses the most memory; it's normal to have multiple svchost processes). That led me to pinpoint the culprit and full solution...

Browsershots.org

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Denis

One of the greatest headaches for web developers is to ensure that their websites can run smoothly on different brower platforms, browser versions, and operating systems. Thanks to the spiffy Browsershots.org utility, my site alpha testing can be done by one person in a jiffy!