Web Applications

Looking for an Alternative to TinyURL?

TinyURL is a great service - it allows you to shorten long URL's such as example.com/index.php?id=4/directory/folder/etc/bla-bla-bla-bla.aspx) into URL Shortcuts (LinkTh.at/abc). But the service has been around for years, and is starting to get dusty. The "short links" are getting exceedingly long, as millions upon millions of links are being made, and the site is getting exceedingly cluttered with ads and promotions. In comes LinkTh.at to save the day... read more »

Heavily discounted long distance rates, plus 200 free minutes

Packetel, known for their electronic fax service, also offers a prepaid long distance phone service with a plethora of features. Unlike some of the lower quality long distance services out there, with Packetel's Voice Service you can make long distance calls from any phone (land or mobile) at any time, at heavily discounted rates. They are able to offer this service because their marketing and sales efforts are entirely online-based, which reduces their overhead significantly. Read our article for a promo code that will get you 200 free minutes... read more »

Google prevents automated queries

Sorry.google.com is the page Google serves you (or an application) when you fail to answer it's human-verification question. Google has instituted this new policy - randomly checking to see if queries submitted to it (ie. searches) are done by human beings (as opposed to software applications). The purpose of this is two-fold. On the one hand, blocking the search query and redirecting the user to sorry.google.com alerts the user to potential spyware on their PC; on the other hand, it prevents users from utilizing software to query the Google search engine... read more »

Looking for the best online fax service?

We've reviewed several online fax services that allow you to send and receive faxes online.  From Efax to Packetel, all offer online sending and/ or receiving of faxes.  The noticeable differences are in price, quality of faxes received and sent, and file formats supported... read more »

Customizing FCKEditor's Font Format Menu

Having trouble adding/ removing items to FCKEditor's FontFormat menu?  While it's quite simple to adjust and changes styles in FCKEditor (simply update fckstyles.xml in the root directory or create your own styles file and reference it in fckconfig.js underFCKConfig.StylesXmlPath). 

The Font Format menu is an entirely different story.  Here's how to update it in a nutshell (note that this example removes all items save "Normal", "Heading 1", "Heading 2", and "Heading 3")... read more »

Need an efax number?

Electronic faxing (e-faxing) has come a long way since it began several years ago.  The services tend to be more efficient now, less costly, a wider variety of file formats are supported and more area codes are available... read more »

Editor Loads in IE but not in Firefox

I ran into this problem and it was driving me crazy. Particularly that the TinyMCE or FCKEditors (WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get) editors would load fine in IE, Mozilla, and other browsers, but not in Firefox. read more »

Gmail Will Not Load

Having problems loading gmail? In other words, you try to sign in to your gmail account but the page keeps loading and reloading without going anywhere? We have your solution.. read more »