Wetpaint: Wiki website builder

I won’t go so deep with the definition of Wiki but if you are not familiar with it, they are websites that anyone can freely edit and contribute to grow through collaboration. The first Wiki software is developed by Ward Cunningham to exchange ideas between computer programmers.

There are different options to set your own Wiki systems. You can whether add a dynamic Wiki system to your server which would require some programming knowledge or use a third party tool to handle it for you where you don’t need to have any technical details at all.

Manage your projects online with Projectspaces

Day by day, the number of web-based applications for office workers are increasing and most of those applications are intended to make an easier life. I have previously heard a lot of complains about some applications those had very complicated interfaces for average computer users.

Here in this article, I will like to talk about online project management which is a feature of Projectspaces. But first lets proceed with Projectspaces that claims to be secure, powerfull, fast and easy application.

Easy way to create .htaccess file

.htaccess is a text file that contains commands to instruct web servers how to behave in certain situations. The file name starts with a dot because dot-files are hidden files on Unix-like operating systems.

It has a bit complex rules for writing commands. Mis-coding can cause serious risks. With .htaccess Editor you can create .htaccess files (without any knowledge of complex rules) that includes;

Deny all access to files
Basic authentication
Custom error pages
Password protection
Default pages
Redirect directives
Access restrictions

4 useful applications

It’s that time again folks, the weekend is right ahead and I’m looking forward to have some fun. Regular readers of gabfire have probably noticed that I don’t post much on weekends. But what about you? Do you keep posting or you only prefer to put an eye and check if everything is alright on weekends?

Here in this post you will find 4 applications that might be very useful those are Xenu’s Link Sleuth, Bodocus (a comprehensive lis of online doc movies), eSnailer and SkreemR

Discover server neighbors or hosting company of any website

Have you ever wanted to learn webserver neighbors or hosting company of any website?

If you are using shared hosting, myIPneighbors is a great tool for you to find out who your neighbors are and to see how many other websites are hosted in the same server with your website. Is your website packed into a crowded host with hundreds of other sites? Or is there questionable content being hosted side by side with your site? If so, it may be time to look for a better host.

Who Is Hosting This is a tool that enables you to find out who is hosting any web site. Simply type in any domain name, and you’ll get a link to the company that’s hosting this particular domain. It’s that simple!

Periodic back-up of your blog and folders

Lets say that you woke up in the morning and opened your computer. But for some reason your computer doesn’t boot. If I would face such a problem like that, the first thing that comes to my mind would be