Tag Archives: search

Startpage supposedly the most private search engine.. uses Google AdWords?

Just feels a bit contradictive to me as we know advertisements basically live off tracking. In the picture below we can clearly see tracking parameters on the adwords links. Not to mention Google is mainly an advertisement company, we can … Read more

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How to change all the existing NetBeans file associations to point to a new NetBeans installation in Windows

Read on if you have one of these problems: My netbeans.exe associations are broken. When I try to change the association to different NetBeans binaries it still won’t work. I have two NetBeans installations and want to change the associations … Read more

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How I implemented currency handling in Mustache across PHP and JavaScript

Originally this article was to be about how to implement currency formatting using the template language Mustache, but I see it also covers a bit on how to synchronize template variables between the server-side and client-side. Hopefully you’ll get something … Read more

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Replay search on GosuGamers doesn’t work properly? No problem

Sometimes programming skills become really handy. For example like just now when I tried searching for Warcraft 3 replays including a specific player on GosuGamers. The problem is that it revealed no matches, which is kinda weird because I already … Read more

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Apple location services you think you need enabled but you don’t

So you don’t fancy the fact that Apple knows where you are at all times? Then you’ve probably browsed through the “Location Services” items in the Settings menu and you’ve also looked through the cunningly named “System Services” section. With … Read more

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Google phasing out iGoogle and screwing up

So iGoogle is being phased out (service stops at the 1st of November 2013) and of course with my luck I’m being quite “dependant” on it. It’s not an essential service but it’s mighty handy to keep me updated on … Read more

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I don’t believe in A/B testing

Some people love to test everything from different designs to the color on buttons. They think it gives them special insight in how the vast anonymous Internet audience behaves; that they’ve cracked the code. So according to your numbers (you … Read more

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