One DoS attack, on one cluster of DreamHost, has affected 447 servers, and results in 8 hours downtime on SheepTech, as well as many other websites in the same cluster.

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Google Translate is brilliant for one thing, it can detect the language used on a website or in a sentence. This makes total sense because if you can’t read in a particular language, chances are you don’t even know what language that is.

We can make use of this ability of Google Translate to easily translate just almost any foreign language into the language we want, with only a button click.

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As reported at ars technica, YouTube seems to be providing a download link at the bottom left of all videos on the ChangeDotGov channel.

There are a few possibilities. 1) YouTube is experimenting to allow its users to download videos off YouTube itself, 2) YouTube is just providing download links for Obama’s videos, either upon request or out of courtesy.

What say you? It doesn’t really matter anyway, as downloading YouTube videos is as easy as pie using third party tools.

Last year, I was given a free copy of Snagit and I got it installed on my desktop. Later that year, I got myself a laptop and turned it to my main working machine, so no more Snagit for me. Taking a screenshot itself is a no-brainer task, all I need is a “Prnt Scrn” button and MS Paint. The tricky part is to edit the screenshot to emphasize or explain on something.

I really like Snagit because it made my life easier drawing arrows, inserting annotations, and highlighting (I especially love this). However, having to pay $49.95 for just a screen capture tool doesn’t justify me. $30 for this software, $40 for that tool, when they add up I’d probably be able to get myself a new PC.

Fortunately I had found a freeware (for Windows only) that will do almost as good as Snagit, at an unbeatable price of $0.

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Martin Wright made a good point in his guest post on TwiTip about using our own blog domain to host short URLs pointing to your blog posts, instead of services like TinyURL, Bit.ly and tr.im.

Martin suggested the use of Short URL WordPress Plugin to do the job, but I see a better way to do it.

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Using the same method as how we batch rename files, we can also change the file extensions of a series of files easily, without the need of any software. All you need is a Notepad or any other text editor.

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