Google recently introduced a new feature to their google.com search engine. As you type google will give suggestions to the question you might be asking. These suggestions are based on popular searches that other users have made. There are some highly amusing ones out there but I notice that the initial phrasing [...]
Well I’m not sure what facebook are doing with this but if you follow the following commands you get a lens flare (a visual effect) on the screen:
1. Log into facebook
2. Click on the background (the white bit)
3. Press: up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right
4. Press: b, a, enter
5. Click on the screen
Thanks [...]
I have used Amazon Elastic Cloud (EC2) for my dedicated hosting needs for nearly 6 months now. They’ve just released a new “bulk-buy” service that enables you to buy 1 or 3 years’ of as many instances as you want in advance and you buy it by issuing a command from terminal or the commandline/dos prompt.
One of the things you can do to speed up browsing and general internet activity is to create a local DNS cache. A DNS is a Domain Name Server and its purpose is to convert domain names to IP addresses. Every time you type in a domain name your computer has to ask [...]
You may have noticed but I’ve converted this site to a wordpress site, added a few features and removed a few too. This is mainly because I’ve decided to focus matt-helps.com entirely on techie things (computers, programming, linux, internet, and techie stuff in the news) - mainly because these are the things I have the [...]
