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Vendors & providers with shady practices

I believe everyone that uses the internet on a daily basis has experienced or at least heard a story about shady practices coming from specific vendors or providers and because I hate it when people are overall lame I’ve decided to start a series of posts where I’m going to report well known and documented

Google opensource’d Guetzli

Earlier this week the folks at Google published a blog post announcing that they’ve decoded to opensource Guetzli, their JPEG encoder which supposedly is much better than anything else available. The scope of this release was to help webmasters compress their images better so that they have less impact over the page loading time. Besides

Recommended links #5

I know it’s Sunday and that’s why I’m giving you this list now, so that you have what to read tomorrow morning when you drink your coffee: 15 great cronjob examples; The UNIX haters’ handbook; Why Wi-Fi kinda’ sucks; 7 best Drupal 8 themes; Differences between PHP: Notices, Warnings, Exceptions & Errors; A Blockchain in

Free Photo Editing Software From Corel

The folks at Corel have decided to give their Aftershot 3 photo editing software for free: The software is available both for Mac and Windows and can be downloaded from here. Once downloaded just select the directories where it should save it’s temporary files and fill in the serial key provided by Corel to unlock