Google Chrome does not have any browser specific proxy settings. When you try to set a proxy in the Google Chrome browser, you are shown the system wide proxy – settings dialog, the one which is used by Internet Explorer to detect change in settings. For example, you won’t be able to browse the Web [...]

Microsoft — or perhaps someone else whom Microsoft definitely pays — has created howsoftwareisbuilt.com, where Microsoft apparently tries to promote itself and ‘embrace’ the FOSS world (here is the latest interview). In the homepage, the site also links to the company’s anti-GNU/Linux pages (“compare” site). How demeaning. Notice the footer which clearly states: “How Software is Built is [...]

There is a good news and a bad news. The good news is that your business is expanding and growing at a pretty fast pace. And the bad news is that the pace is just too fast for your good old email solution to handle and deep down you already know that it just won’t [...]

DNS (Domain Name Servers) serves as the Internet’s phone book: every time you visit a website, your computer performs a DNS lookup just like you would look up a phone book before making a telephone call. The faster the Domain name look ups resolution are, the faster your web pages will load. We have already [...]

In this article we will tell you how to change the default port number and IP address for a website in Microsoft IIS web server so that you can add more websites.

Earlier we did an article on “9 Interesting facts about Facebook and its users“. This article can be considered as a sequel to that article. Here we present to you five more interesting facts about Facebook. So here goes five interesting facts about Facebook:

Squid is one of the best caching web proxy servers out there. Although it provides a number of  amazing features but the default error page which is served by Squid is very basic and does not look good. So if you are a system administrator you may like to customize or change the default error [...]

Having an FTP server along with your webserver has benefits of it’s own. You can transfer files very easily to and from your server. Also, editing files on your webserver is a breeze if you enable FTP. We have already shown you how to install the IIS Webserver in Windows 7. Now, we will tell [...]

Windows 7 comes with an inbuilt IIS web server and a FTP server. We have already shown you how to install an IIS web server or an FTP server on your Windows 7 system. In this article, we will tell you how to manage the settings for either of IIS web and the FTP servers [...]

Hosting a web server using Python is very simple. Any default installation of Python includes a module called SimpleHTTPServer. We can make use of this module to start python and host a web server on any port as we wish. In this article we will show you how to do so.

Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services, formerly called Internet Information Server) is a set of Internet-based services for servers created by Microsoft to be used with Microsoft Windows. It is the world’s second most popular web server only after the Apache HTTP Server. The servers provide services for File Transfer Protocol, SMTP for e-mail and HTTP/HTTPS [...]

Setting up an external Monitor to your Laptop in Fedora 10 is very simple. Fedora 10 onwards, the default X11 window system configuration file has been dropped and the system auto-configures your X11 system. In case you need to change a few settings to your X11 configuration (which we will be doing here), you need [...]

Google Gears is software offered by Google that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new    features to your web browser. One of it`s feature is that it provides a LocalServer module that caches and serves application resources like HTML, JavaScript, images, etc. There are a number of applications that use Google Gears, including Google`s [...]