For browsers running on Windows 10, Apple links only to Windows 10 version of iTunes from their site. Use the following link to download the latest installer (fully compatible with 64 bit Windows 10) directly from apple.com: https://www.apple.com/itunes/download/win64 If anything happens and apple no longer provides download via this link, […]
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Wget works pretty good for mirroring sites. Especially since version 1.18 which introduced support for img srcset parsing (unlike httrack, which unfortunately lacks that). The trouble with wget is that it doesn’t handle gzipped responses. (Which is IMHO quite surprising in 2017.) Wget always requests not compressed data with following: […]
Gzip decompress proxy for wget (mirror/recursive download)
36 Google Doodles. They seem cool but they may be distracting for some. Getting Doodles also isn’t free as they can be hundreds kB in size. There was no option to disable Doodles as they are core part of Google Chrome, the “newtab-serviceworker.js”. Luckily just recently, based on some planned changes (Chromium tracking bug 583292), […]
How to disable Google Doodles in Chrome (61+)
I switched to uBlock Origin from Adblock (Plus) when I had an issue with weird long loading times of some pages. I’m not sure if it was just a temporary issue with filters but switching to uBlock Origin helped. The uBlock benchmark also confirms that – that uBlock should be very […]
uBlock Origin allows deeper filtering than Adblock (Plus)
1 Closing the last tab in a browser closes the whole app. In Firefox there’s config option “browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab” to disable that and keep the window still open. You get used to it after using shortcuts on keyboard or mouse.
Prevent closing Chrome with last tab – comparison of all ...
What if the most popular SSL Server Test (from Qualys) reports that your site has and “Chain issue: Contains anchor”?
Qualys SSL Server Test: An issue which is not – ...
1 w3schools.com writes on various of their pages that The default character encoding in HTML5 is UTF-8.