How to Delete Facebook Apps and Games
Facebook is a complex web application with many settings. Some of these settings can be hard to find, mainly because the path to get to them changes every time Facebook changes their layout. Deleting an app or game used to be more difficult, but now can be accessed fairly easy from the side bar on the home page. However, not all apps are displayed in this side bar. To find a complete list of all of your apps, and be able to delete them or change their settings, follow these steps...
Feb 7, 2012   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

Effective Text Spacing for Web Design
Having effective and well thought-out text spacing in your web design can increase the readability of the text, make it easier for users to scan through it and find specific points, and improve the look and feel of the design as a whole. Despite this, many designers ignore text spacing or give it considerably less attention than the graphical elements of their design. If your website relies at all on text to convey information, you would be shooting yourself in the foot by ignoring text spacing...
Feb 2, 2012   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

Permanently Turn Off Google Search Personal Results
To turn Google Personal Results off permanently, so that you don't have to click "Hide personal results" every time you search, go into your Search settings. This is accessed by clicking on the cog in the upper-right...
Jan 12, 2012   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

Link to a specific time in a YouTube video
To link to a specific part of a YouTube video, so that upon visiting the URL, you are taken directly to that time, simply add #t=01m10s to the end of the YouTube URL. Replace 01m with the number of minutes into the video, and 10s with the number of seconds...
Jan 11, 2012   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

8 Reasons why I prefer Firefox over Chrome
Chrome has been making major inroads into the browser market share of both Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. It is now close to tied with Firefox and the trend favors Chrome. This is probably due in large part to Google leveraging its marketing power to push Chrome. The new Chromebooks will certainly help push the name recognition further...
Jan 6, 2012   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

Adobe Flash Player Full Standalone/Offline Installer
The Flash Player download from Adobe's main website is not a compete installer. After running it, the installer's first step is to download the rest of itself. This generally isn't a problem, but it is useful to have the full standalone installer if you need to install Flash Player on an offline computer. It can also bypass the Adobe Flash Player Failed to Initialize error that sometimes occurs with the normal installer...
Dec 29, 2011   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

Adobe Reader Full Standalone/Offline Installer
If you've downloaded the Adobe Reader installer from the main Adobe website, you've probably noticed that it is not a complete installer. After running it, the installer's first step is to download the rest of the installer. No, you're not the only one that finds this annoying...
Dec 29, 2011   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

Enable Adblock Plus in Chrome Incognito (Private) Mode
By default Google Chrome disables your extensions for Incognito windows. This is in general a good practice since extensions can collect and store private data. But for me, it is particularly irritating to not have Adblock Plus enabled. Opening an Incognito window feels like I'm being transported back in time to 2006 or something. Full-screen popups, flashing banner ads, "fake" links littered throughout a text document, and other horrors...
Dec 23, 2011   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

Link directly to and embed HD YouTube videos
You should always link to and embed the HD version of YouTube videos when video or audio quality is important. Here's how...
Dec 16, 2011   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet

H3XED Usage Share Operating System & Browser Statistics
For those that might be curious, here are the percentages of both operating system and internet browser usage share among visitors of this site for all of 2011. This is based on visits (not hits)...
Dec 15, 2011   Nick Vogt   Web and Internet



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