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Top 10 Haunted Houses in America

Halloween, Places

For a little break as Halloween comes up, I found this list of the top 10 haunted houses in the United States. I figured there could not be a haunted house without real estate so lets enjoy it.

10 Weird buildings from around the world

Places, Weird

The Top Ten Vampire Myths

Halloween

Most vampire myths come to us from the Dark Ages, when science was in its infancy and people looked to religion or superstition to explain the world around them. While many vampire myths have their basis in Christian orthodoxy, others represent imaginative interpretations of actual vampire behavior.

25 Essential Firefox Extensions for Professionals

Firefox

As many well know, I am a huge advocate for Firefox. As a user, I like it for a few reasons; its consistent across platforms, tabbed browsing, fairly secure, skinable, and last but not least…extensibile. The extensibility of the good of browsers is where things really shine for me as a developer…a web application developer. [...]

Five Hot Video Game Gift Ideas for that Special Gamer Someone

Games, Gifts

Every gamer needs two things in life, new equipment and new games. So if you love a gamer then you need to help them out this Christmas season by getting them either one or the other. Of course if they are completely obsessed with gaming you might check them into the Video Gamers Rehab Center [...]

10 Worst AdWords Campaign Mistakes

Advertisments, Google

On the highly competitive Google AdWords pay per click (PPC) search engine, it’s now more important than ever to ensure that your PPC campaigns are optimized to their utmost potential. All of us want to achieve maximum return on investment (ROI) for the keywords or phrases that are most relevant to our businesses, and are [...]

Five Keys to Improving Web Site Conversions

Business, Internet

The primary focus of search engine optimization (SEO) professionals is to generate traffic to a web site. Some SEO professionals are better than others at achieving that goal via higher rankings in search engines for target keyword phrases. However, the ball is often dropped once the visitor actually hits the site and, most likely, leaves.

Determine class type with these 10 PHP variable testing functions

Programming, Web Development

Unlike many of its counterparts, PHP is not a strictly typed language. Essentially, this means that a developer doesn’t need to explicitly set the type (number, string, Boolean) of a variable before using it. Instead, the PHP interpreter automatically detects variable type based on the information stored within a variable. While this makes programming in [...]

Top 10 Ways to Motivate Geeks

Personal, Technology

Being a geek myself, I think this is a subject I think needs to penetrate all levels of management in every company that values their geeks. By no means is this a rant, but for the last 10 years I’ve seen what motivates us and what doesn’t. I’ve seen the managers that just don’t get [...]

10 Perl CPAN modules for manipulating specific file formats

Computers, Programming, Web Development

In your Perl development, it’s quite likely that you will encounter files in different formats — XML, PDF, CSV, RSS — and different binary data formats. Your Perl application may need to manipulate these files, either reading from them or writing to them. You can simplify this task by turning to the Comprehensive Perl Archive [...]

Top 6 Lavish gear

Computers, Personal

This collection of quality kit is more desirable than a silk-lined Bentley.

Top 5 Luxury black gadgets

Gadgets, Money

White is now officially for chavs, thanks to these brilliant black sheep of the gadget world.

10 useful Perl modules for network programmers

Networking, Programming

As you may already know, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) has a bunch of ready-made Perl modules to enable developers to efficiently perform common tasks. This is particularly true of CPAN’s network programming category, which has thousands of Perl modules ranging from general (server daemons) to highly-specific applications (interacting with a Cisco router). Since [...]

Five Ways To Beat The Rate Rise

Money

The Bank of England has announced the first interest rate move in a year, up 0.25% to 4.75%. The majority of forecasters expected no change, so the surprise affected the stock market, sending the FTSE 100 down 100 points in just a few minutes. Banks try to predict where interest rates are going, and we [...]

Five useful dynamic management objects in SQL Server 2005

Microsoft, Programming

New to SQL Server 2005 are dynamic management objects, which are database views or functions that return state specific information for the given database instance at a given time. These objects allow the DBA or developer to monitor the database server in an efficient, controlled way. Dynamic management objects replace many of the former system [...]

Paranormal Phenomena Top 25

Computers, Halloween

Top 10 Butt Exercises

Fitness

Are you happy with your butt? Most of us aren’t. They’re too small, too big, too saggy, too flabby…this list goes on. The right cardio exercise and weight training activities (like squats and deadlifts) can make a difference in your backside and help you get those buns of steel. Find out the best cardio and [...]

The Top 10 weirdest keyboards ever

Computers, Hardware, Weird

Keyboards come in many shapes – from the simplest computer grey $9.99 standard 102-key keyboard to variants that seem to come straight out of a Star Trek episode. Here’s our Top 10 list of the weirdest keyboards ever.