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The Dragoncast Episode 3: Microsoft Surface, More Wii-U News and Video Game Discussion

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It’s time for yet anther edition of The Dragoncast. In this week’s technology podcast we talk about Microsoft’s new tablet/pc called Surface which is releasing on 10/26 as well as some discussion on the new OS Windows 8. Then Andrew, Brian and Bryce all discuss their favorite video game systems as well as some of their favorite video game controllers and a bit of talk about the Wii-U as well. Also we remind all of … Read more

No Malware On DragonBlogger.com

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If you arrived here on DragonBlogger.com via Google Chrome, you may have been presented with the following error: This started happening yesterday and it is related to Google Safesearch flagging subdomains hosted on Bluehost (the parent company of HostMonster which hosts DragonBlogger.com) having some domains serving malware. If you dig further by clicking on the safe browsing diagnostics page you will see the following: Safe Browsing Diagnostic page for dragonblogger.com What is the current listing … Read more

Cloud Storage for Small Businesses

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Small and medium sized enterprises generally use centralized servers and external hard drives for storing their data. But this technology is getting fairly old as new technologies are emerging in the market everyday. Small business should look into changing their storage solutions because hard drives can be easily stolen, are not so secure and can not cater to excessive data.  A better option is to use online data storage services via cloud solutions. Cloud storage … Read more

Google Plus Starts Rolling out Custom Profile Links

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I had an email from Google that they had pre-selected a custom URI for my profile and I was quick to accept it.  My custom Google+ profile URL no longer contains that long crazy number string and Google Plus was far behind other services in letting you hand out a simplified profile URL you can just share with your friends that had your name or brand in the URL itself.  (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and just … Read more

Drawception Tutorial, Guide, and Tips

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Hi there Drawception fan!  If you’re like me, you probably can’t get enough of this social telephone picture game and desire to hone your skills.  The following is a detailed guide that will teach you how to make the most of your 10 minutes, improve the quality of your drawings, and connect with other Drawceptioners eager to help you out.  Reading this guide will not make you the next Corvax but you will notice your … Read more

Bloggers Start Paying Attention to Your Mobile Users

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How often do you check your Google Analytics for your blog to see what percentage of your users come from a mobile browser, compared to standard desktop browser?  Have you started putting in a mobile theme yet or started on a plan to appeal to your mobile readers/customers? You have even more limited real estate on a mobile browser screen, so it is imperative that your mobile theme be optimized for the mobile experience.  In … Read more

Speed up Chrome with HTTP Pipelining

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In the later versions of Google Chrome HTTP Pipelining which was available in Firefox and Opera for a long time was finally made available.  HTTP Pipelining allows the Chrome browser to open multiple threads to call and load web page resources at the same time in parallel instead of sequentially which can speed up website load times when visiting websites online.   Update:  This article is pretty much useless at this time as Chrome has … Read more

Speed Up Google Chrome: GPU Composition Rendering

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If you have a decent video card in your system you may be able to get improved performance from Google Chrome simply by adjusting the GPU compositing setting in Google Chrome.  This setting is easy to experiment with and the worst it can do is cause Chome to be slower and you can just undo it. The first thing you want to do is go to your flags, type chrome://flags and be careful what settings … Read more

The Google Fiber Revolution: Fastest Internet Speeds in Existence?

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It’s now time for the next big step in internet connection speeds. Some still find it hard to believe that, with the 5Mbps average in America, we started at only 56 Kbps on those old dial-up modems. Making an even more impressive jump in speed, Google Fiber’s fiberoptic internet now boasts speeds of up to 1 Gigabit per second! My first thought when it comes to ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and connection speeds is of … Read more

Fix Facebook Google Chrome Issues: Enable Disable Secure Browsing HTTPS

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Have you been having trouble while browsing on Facebook.com using Google Chrome? Are you unable to click on buttons and links? Does your connection timeout often? Are there several page elements like conversation text and pictures missing? There have been dozens of problems faced by Facebook users when they access it on the Google Chrome Browser. There have been issues with Facebook and Google Chrome for several months, even years now. Updating the browser doesn’t … Read more

How to Prevent Brute Force Attacks on Your Server with Fail2Ban

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Having your own server means that you will have to protect it against network attacks which can come from bots and/or other infected servers. Fail2Ban is an service than bans IP’s that try to crack your ssh/ftp server passwords by either the brute forcing or dictionary attack techniques. Fail2ban does this by scanning the logs of the configured services and then blocking them off using the linux Firewall.  When configuring an IP address can be … Read more

Monitor Scout Review – Monitor Websites and Servers

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As anyone using web-based services can guess, you can’t know when a particular website or web-server is going to crash unless you are monitoring it each second. For busy websites and servers, even a minute or two of downtime can mean very significant client and revenue losses! Whether you own a blog or a commercial server, finding a web monitoring service that keeps you online each second and takes care of the software as well … Read more

Facebook Email Tips – Using Facebook Messaging as Your Free Email Service

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Did you know that Facebook Messaging can be pretty conveniently set up to send emails to other email services such as Gmail, Live or Yahoo? Let’s quickly learn how you can set up your custom @facebook.com email ID and use it! TKSSMV85Q6GT How To Set Up Your @Facebook.Com Email ID? 1. Go to https://www.facebook.com/username/ to set your public username or view it if you’ve already set one up. 2. Once your username has been set, … Read more