What the Font?

Share Have you ever seen a logo or been to a website and wondered, “That’s a nice font, I wonder what one it is they’re using?”  Well you need to wonder no more.  What the Font is a service to help you find out just that. It’s a easy service to use too with two ways to find out what font is being used on a website or in a logo (or any other graphic come to that).  You can ...

Top 5 Experimental Web Based File Sharing Services

A lot of file sharing services end their services on the Internet after operating for a while. This can usually be attributed to a disparity between server and bandwidth bills and revenue. That’s a huge problem not only for Internet users but also for webmasters who tend to report on the better ones on a regular basis. The huge players like Rapidshare, Megaupload or Mediafire are bound to stay, the rest may disappear from one moment to the other. Regardless ...

China Unicom Revenue Up 7.6% In H1 2010

Chinese telecommunication operator China Unicom has published its semiannual financial report for the first half of 2010, stating that its operating revenue reached CNY82.11 billion, a year-on-year increase of 7.6%. Of the total operating revenue, CNY41.05 billion was contributed by the mobile businesses, a year-on-year increase of 17.7%; while CNY40.11 billion was from the fixed line businesses, a year-on-year decrease of 2.4%. China Unicom stated that because the 3G business was in its starting period, its revenue could not ...

Windows Explorer Tabbed Browsing For Windows 7

QTTabBar was one of the best, if not the best, tabbed browsing plugin for Windows Explorer. The original developer stopped working on the software in January 2009, and it became apparent with the release of Windows 7 that the original version of the program was not compatible with Windows Explorer in Windows 7. That was a large problem for users who came to rely on the program’s functionality in previous Windows editions. Finally, after a year of inactivity, Paul Accisano ...

China’s Ministry Of Culture Issues Four Internet Cafe Chain Licenses

China’s Ministry of Culture has published announcements on its official website stating that it has issued the first batch of four licenses for operating Internet cafe retail chains in China. The four companies that gain the netcafe licenses are T-Matrix, Beijing Zhonglu Shikong, Beijing Read China, and CECT-Chinacomm Communications. The issuance of the licenses represents the official openness of the national Internet cafe chain license in China and it marks the begin of the integration of the Chinese Internet ...

Adding LDAP entries from the command line

Okay, so we’ve been dealing with LDAP a bit here on Ghacks, but mostly we’ve look at GUI tools (check out LDAP content on Ghacks). All of the GUI tools are good, but nothing beats the command line for pure control and power. And what’s best, once you have LDAP installed, you have all the tools necessary to manage your LDAP data! There’s really no need for further installation. So, yeah…LDAP comes with it’s own set of management tools and, ...

Baidu To Officially Launch Software Search Service Tomorrow

A representative from the Chinese search engine company Baidu.com has confirmed to the local media that the company’s new software search service has been launched for beta testing and will be officially opened on September 2, 2010. Though Baidu.com has not provided an entrance link to this service on the front page of its official website, netizens can access to the service by directly imputing the address, soft.baidu.com. The new software search service provides searches for computer software and ...

How To Detect A 64-bit Alureon Rootkit Infection

Alureon, or TDL, TLD3 and Tidserv, is the first rootkit that can infect 64-bit Windows PCs. Before that, only 32-bit systems were affected by rootkits, and many Windows users realized that in February, when Microsoft patch MS10-015 caused infected machines to display a blue screen. It obviously was not Microsoft’s fault back then, which was first assumed by professionals and users alike. It turned out after some research that the TLD3 rootkit was responsible for that behavior. The developers of ...

Taiwanese Networking Equipment Provider To Establish Mobile Phone Base In Zhengzhou

Taiwanese networking equipment giant AboCom System Inc. has announced in Zhengzhou, Henan, that it will invest CNY2 billion to establish a 3G mobile phone technology industry base in the city. Eric Ouyang, chairman of AboCom, revealed that the company signed an agreement with Zhengzhou High & New Technology Industries Development Zone for the establishment of the mobile phone base. With total investment of CNY2 billion, including an initial investment of CNY200 million, the new base will have an area ...

One Click FTP, Create FTP Server Transfer Profiles

Many webmasters make use of a local test environment to test changes to their websites before they go live on the Internet. One part of the process is to transfer files to the ftp server whenever they have been altered and tested sufficiently. While it is possible to initiate those ftp transfers manually, it is often easier to use a software like One Click FTP to transfer files from one local directory to the ftp server with the click of ...