How To Block Online Adverts

You don’t have to see adverts on Facebook, Youtube – or anywhere else on the internet for that matter.

There’s no denying that the whole internet is plastered with adverts, many of them are either annoying, intrusive or both. That’s the kind of advertising that you definitely don’t want to be subjected to. And it’s exactly the kind of adverts that Adblock Plus wants to get rid of.

Many of the ads online are banner adverts, some of them are out of the way but most of them are placed above the fold or within the flow of content. Because of that we’ve become so used to seeing them with the rest of the content that we often look past them as if they weren’t even there. It’s called banner blindness and it’s one of the reasons that adverts keep getting more and more intrusive.

It’s so easy to set up adblocking in your browser all you need to do is install and activate the awesome Adblock Plus plugin.

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Augmented Browsing with Firefox

As the web evolves, the ways of using it evolve with it. We're long past the era of total uniformity when it comes to accessing this information wealth, but there is still much room for personalization and improvement. Our browsers give us a basic view, defaulting to the most common usage case, but there's no reason to strictly adhere to what is most common.

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Web Hosting Basics

This article was originally posted at http://www.jakeculpmedia.com/the-blog/2010/8/24/web-hosting-basics.html

Web hosting is the technology that makes a website visible and accessible on the World Wide Web. Different types of web hosting plans are available in the market and you can choose one that fits into your budget and serves your requirements. 

Shared web hosting is the most popular as it is affordable and reliable at the same time. Dedicated server is also known as dedicated hosting. It is mainly aimed at being a hosting solution for major online businesses with a powerful server that serves you alone. There are two types of dedicated hosting, unmanaged and managed. Managed dedicated hosting is used only when you do not want to handle anything else other than the onsite content. Unmanaged is used when you want to be in charge of the server. Virtual private server hosting is the bridge between shared hosting and dedicated hosting. VPS hosting is a form of web hosting that displays virtualization of server being split into several virtual servers. It is fast becoming the most sought after web hosting technology. 

The world has turned into a global village with the multitude of web hosting options that have surfaced. Even small businesses can now think of having an online presence due to the availability of extremely affordable web hosting services. Web hosting companies help you to run a site, which will feature the information, images, audio files and other resources conveying your brand message. They provide a customer or user with a server space on which he can store files. With this hosting system you can create several e-mail accounts on your websites which portrays professionalism and enhances customer reliability for the business ones. 

Advertising is also one of the benefits one can gain from hosting services. Customers are also benefited. This gives a small business the opportunity to compete with a larger and established business organization. These days web hosting is a captivating business and provides opportunities to individual who can act as resellers for web hosting companies. This is a good way of earning some income by selling space on your server to chosen clients.

Opera for the iPhone -- Will it make it to the App Store?

Opera recently made a Blog post announcing that during the 2010 Mobile World Congress in Oslo in a few days, Opera will be showing off what they have planned for Opera Mini on the iPhone. Now, whether or not Apple will release it in the iTunes App Store is a completely different story. Opera may have plans to release it, but we'll see if Apple will deny it. They may come up with the Google voice excuse and saying that users already have safari, so why need Opera Mini? Honestly, I would hate for that to happen. I'm sure Opera put a lot of work into releasing a mobile web browsing application, so I hope Apple approves this.

I really can't wait for the app to be released, and let's hope Apple approves it, because after seeing only one picture I'm excited about what Opera Mini for the iPhone has to offer.