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Convert a surface in square centimetres (cm²; American spelling: centimeters) to a surface in square inches (in²).

Detect the user-agent with JavaScript and show the visitor of your site what browser and operating system he or she uses.

The toolbar of Google Chrome does not have a home button by default. Fortunately, it is easy to add one. Read how to add a home button to Google Chrome's toolbar.

Detect the user-agent and show this to the visitor of your site with PHP. In other words: show the visitor what browser and operating system he or she uses.

If one of the tabs in Google Chrome has a problem, you don't have to close the browser to stop that problem. You simply close that tab. Of course you can simply click on the cross on a tab to close it, but you can also do it from the task manager.

Create a .html file that contains the specifications of your hardware in Ubuntu Linux.

If several people share a computer, you may wish to assign a maximum disk space usage. This howto only works if you have administrator privileges.

The task manager in Google Chrome helps you to monitor the memory performance for the tabs that you have opened. Here are four ways to open it.

If you create a website for the mobile web, it is likely to be viewed one a mobile phone. Enable users to call numbers by clicking on a hyperlink.

Make PDF-files easier to download: Convert high resolution PDF files to low resolution PDF files in Microsoft Windows.

If you create content with the Koivi editor in XOOPS, it adds useless, empty attributes to your hyperlinks like shape="" type="" coords="". Read how to get rid of these.

Move from desktop to desktop fast.

If you are the author of an original work, it is likely that you own the copyright of this work. If you publish this work on the internet, others may infringe your copyright and illegally publish your work on other websites. Google Alerts can be of great help in tracking plagiarism or copyright infringements. Read how to use Google Alerts to track plagiarism.

Convert a surface in square inches (in²) to a surface in square centimetres (cm²; American spelling: centimeters).

Adapt the size of the windows listing in the Ubuntu Feisty Fawn taskbar.

Mozilla Firefox wants to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours. Read how you can be part of this!

When you use the date modified to sort files, the most recent files are probably the ones that you opened most recently. Read how to save files so that you can sort your documents with the date they were created. This is really necessary if you have a large number of documents, or if you have the good habit to save various versions of a document you are working on.

A default installation of Ubuntu checks for updates once a day. Read how to change the frequency at which Ubuntu checks for updates.

The national cocktail of Brazil is called Caipirinha. Read how to make a Caipirinha!

Show a message like "No Comments Yet" when there are no comments on an article in XOOPS. Such a message makes it easier for your visitors to understand the comment section of a webpage. IMHO, such a message should have been included by default in XOOPS modules where you can comment, but unfortunately it hasn't always. Read how to add it.

Run the 'hostname.sh' script on a Centos 5 / DirectAdmin server to change your hostname.

Apply PHP code in your theme in XOOPS.

Show the people who logged in to your XOOPS website a different text than the visitors who did not log in.

If your website is down, you can ping your site to see if the problem is your server.

Translate a XOOPS module to another language, make all its default text available in another language.

Create a list of definitions in xHTML with the dl, dt and dd tags.

Create an icon on the system-tray that lets you toggle between Compiz and the ordinary window manager Metacity. This is handy when you use applications that are incompatible with Compiz Fusion as it allows you to switch off Compiz in a few seconds.

Move a XOOPS site to another folder. For example, if a XOOPS site that you created in a folder is ready, you may wish to move it to the root of your site.

Install XOOPS, a popular CMS written in PHP that can be used for developing both small and large websites like dynamic community websites, intra company or corporate portals and weblogs.

WF Downloads is a module for XOOPS, XOOPS Cube and ImpressCMS used to set up a downloads section on websites. Unfortunately, its templates generate a hidden text link. Hidden text links are links that are invisible or hardly visible for human beings but visible for search engines. These can get a site removed from Google's index (source). Even if your site is not removed from Google's index, hidden text links may give search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN a wrong idea of the content of your site, leading to less relevant traffic. Finally, hidden text link may lower your pagerank. Read how to remove the hidden text link from WF Downloads 3.2.