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SLOW PCfighter review- another registry cleaner

By Giedrius on January 28, 2010

Slow PC Fighter is a registry cleaner from same family as Spam Fighter or Virus Fighter. Registry cleaners allow fixing errors and inconsistencies in PC’s registry making PC boot and operate a bit faster. Many of them are made by security companies. Slow PC Fighter website claims that running Slow PCFighter will increase PC speed [...]

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Why you should be cautious about public security advice from contractor

By Giedrius on January 23, 2010

First, I must state here that I am affiliate of couple security products that have little to do with this post on itself. This rambling is about people motivation and truthfulness. Spending time in some forums and social boards I met couple types of people that give professional advice there: people that were in same [...]

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Never forget how your script will be hosted when programming for web

By Giedrius on January 21, 2010

This week I had a really interesting problem to tackle: one simple script of mine behaved not as expected. And it took me couple hours of analysis for a simple ~30 line script to find the cause. The script on itself its quite simple one – we have 2 numbers and 2 dates, one of [...]

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Phplists: is there something better for large newsletters?

By Giedrius on January 15, 2010

I have to distribute a mailing list of circa 150 000 email clients and wondered what alternatives I have to in-house system. This has lead to some research of various options for mailing customers. First there are 3 types of software I might use: web-based services, server based newsletter/mass mailing applications and PC software. web-based [...]

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