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[30 Jun 2008 | 23 Comments | ]

Since some time ago I kept seeing this “U Comment I Follow” badges on a lot of blogs, so I was curious and started to digging some information about this.
Almost all blog platforms by default are set up so that a “dead end” piece of code is inserted wherever there is a link in a comment, so that search engines will not “count” the link as they are crawling the internet. This was originally designed to help stop comment spam, but it doesn’t work. What it does is remove some …

General »

[30 Jun 2008 | 17 Comments | ]

Are you new to the blogosphere and do you need a good list which explains a lot of blogging terms?! Or do you need to refresh your memory? Anyway, it doesn’t matter which group you belong to, this is just a huge A to Z list made by DailyBlogTips and it really explains a lot of blogging terms including A-list, Adsense and many many more!

Personal »

[29 Jun 2008 | 11 Comments | ]

Finally the summer holiday has began! Off course it already began for me  since the ending of my internship but for Jannie the summer holiday has just started! Over the last weeks she has been very busy with school work and that really paid off. Not only she has the highest scores but she also graduated for her minor “Psychology” and she did manage to get an internship for her next school year. Yep, I’m very proud of her!
Anyway now we both have summer holiday we can actually make …

Commercials »

[29 Jun 2008 | Comments Off | ]

Another cool anti Mac commercial which is really funny!
If you haven’t seen the part 1, click here…

General »

[25 Jun 2008 | 19 Comments | ]

What is a domain name extension? A domain name extension is the last part of the domain, this is the part that comes after the . (dot).
Every domain name extension stands for something and has it’s own meaning. So in case you ever wondered what domain name extension like .com, .net, .org and other domain names extension stands for here is the answer.

The International domain name extension:

.aero
Travel

.biz
Business

.com
Global Domain, commercial

.coop
Cooperation

.edu
US College or University

.gov
US Federal Government

.info
Information

.int
International Treaties

.mil
US Dept of Defense

.mobi
Dedicated to delivering the Internet to mobile devices via the Mobile Web

.museum
Museums

.name
Family …

FireFox »

[24 Jun 2008 | 14 Comments | ]

If you’re using FireFox and you want to visit my site, you can actually use a shortcut! A shortcut for BioTecK.net? Jep, just type bioteck in the address bar of FireFox and hit Shift+Enter. You’ll see that FireFox takes you directly to this blog! Cool isn’t it?!
What’s the secret? Well I have made a special deal with FireFox.. No, just kidding! To be honest there’s no secret! It’s just a standard feature in FireFox and it can be used to go directly to a .net, .com …

Tips & Tricks: PC »

[23 Jun 2008 | 11 Comments | ]

Today I found a very interesting thing.. You can actually watch the Star Wars movie in DOS. Yeah, all doted!  I don’t know if this works on Windows Vista, cause I still use Windows XP. Anyway here’s the “secret”:

Go to Start
Click Run
Type: Telnet
In the DOS window type the letter o
Then type: towel.blinkenlights.nl
Press Enter

Like I said, I don’t know if this works in Vista, but if you run Vista please run this and let me know if this works on Vista or not!
Now, enjoy the (dotted!) Star …

General »

[22 Jun 2008 | 2 Comments | ]

In case you have never been to Paris this is your chance! I mean you can see Paris from the Eiffel tower and since I’m feeling a bit generous I pay the ticket!
So what do you have to do for it?  Almost nothing, click here and see it for your self!