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Having a local version of your blog is really helpful especially if you are working on a theme, playing with some plugins or doing some modifications without having to risk breaking your live blog.

Welcome to part one of a two part series of articles that will guide you through the process of installing a fresh copy of WordPress or your public WordPress blog to your local machine. The first part of this series will guide you through the installation and configuration of a piece of software called WampServer. […]

Almost two weeks ago, I wrote my Google Reader Gets Social With Friends Shared Items post detailing how disturbing it was that Google Reader was now sharing items with people it considered my friends, on an opt-out basis.

When you’re trying to find someone online, Google’s not the only game in town. In the last two years, a handful of new people search engines have come onto the scene that offer better ways to pinpoint people info by name, handle, location, or place of employment.

Apple’s latest Mac OS X release, 10.5 — Leopard, has been well received overall. But a growing number of users are hacking the interface to make it feel a little bit more Tiger-like. The prevailing sentiment from these users seems to be: "it wasn’t broke in Tiger before, so why "fix" it in Leopard?"

If you’re a die-hard Safari user, you may want to check out one of Firefox’s best features - Greasemonkey. Using the free software SIMBL and GreaseKit, you can run most of the scripts created for Greasemonkey - in Safari. And Mailplane. And all WebKit apps. So now you can use the genius that is Folders4Gmail […]

So here I am, burning some brain cells and taking some time to relax playing a game on Kongregate, when a little window pops up in the corner of my screen and says “Kongregate is sending this to your Facebook profile: Nate played Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 at Kongregate.” Which immediately elicited a “Hellll no” […]

This HOWTO explains how to browse the web anonymously by using Tor (TheOnionRouter) and Privoxy. Tor can also be used to make other network clients (instant messaging, Usenet, etc) act anonymously. This HOWTO also explains how to set up servers on your machine available anonymously through Tor’s "hidden services" mechanism.