Random featured Wikipedia article

Get a random interesting Wikipedia article every morning when you open your web browser. This method is different from setting your homepage to Wikipedia’s own Special:Random page, which might give you rather mundane articles like an obscure bridge somewhere. This method will give you a random featured article. Step 1 Set the following URL as…

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Free blank WordPress theme

This ‘Blank’ theme is a bare-bones HTML5 WordPress theme perfect for the starting point of any theme development. The structure of a standard WordPress theme is kept with all the usual pages including 404.php, archives.php and so on. This theme is free of almost all style and presentational elements, but includes some “normalization” code for…

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Anonymize external WordPress links

I’ve developed this plugin to easily add anonym.to functionality to your WordPress site. You can use this plugin to prevent your site from appearing in the server logs of referred pages as a referrer. The operators of the referred pages cannot see where their visitors come from any more. Wikipedia on referrer hiding: Most web…

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How to watch blocked videos

Once in a while you may click on an interesting link to Youtube only to find that “This video is not available in your country”. You could be staying pretty much anywhere in the world (except China), but may not be able to watch every video on YouTube – that’s because the content owners have…

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Block Facebook with a hosts file

The hosts file is a computer file used in an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses. The hosts file is a plain-text file and is conventionally named hosts. (This file has no file name extension, it’s simply called hosts). You can use a hosts file to block ads, banners, malware or specific websites…

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