This is a perfect way to hide secret files and messages in an innocent looking JPG file. Try it for yourself; Save the picture below to your harddisk and open it there. When opened, it'll probably open with the standard image viewer. Now, close the application, right click the JPG file and open it with WinRAR. Can you see the hidden file? How to create such an hidden message on your own, click on "Read more..."

One of my friends recommended this small little program that'll mute a Flash application within your browser. Now you can keep on browsing the web without having to listen to any annoying Flash-based ad, or play a Flash-game that doesn't have a "mute" button of his own. This way you'll only hear what you want to hear.

Many websites have eye-catching CSS floating corners. These can be used for many purposes, such as advertations. In this post I'll explain how to create those CSS floating corners.

Everybody likes the crazy fish eye lens effect. But why spend so mush money on such a lens, if you create the effect in Photoshop? Here I'll explain how to create the fish eye lens effect in Photoshop.

Do you want to ban people from your website? Of course you can code this in PHP, but the most efficient way to do it, is to put it in the .htaccess file of your host. This way, you can also disable hotlinking of images or other files that are hosted on your website.

Keep your website yours, don't let it be taken over by useless spammers, bots and other annoying people.

Be careful when banning entire ranges of IPs, as you may also be blocking legitimate traffic!

User IP Ban

Valid entries:
IP-addresses should have this format:

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

• 42.13.6.32

  Block the specific IP address

• 212.172.49.

  Blocks all IP's from the range:

  212.172.49.xxx

• 69.241.

  Blocks all IP's from the range:

  69.241.xxx.xxx

• 81.143.4

  Blocks all IP's from the range:

  81.143.4xx.xxx.xxx

So, you want some nice CSS-based tabs on your own website? Sure, it's piece of cake when you're good at creating CSS. But what if you aren't so good at CSS or if you're lazy and just want to create a CSS menu fast. Than Overzone 's CSS Tab Designer can help you. Big time.

CSS Tab Designer is unique and easy to use

Here you can find a list to use in your forms as a drop-down-menu. You can use it any way you want to.

While I was browsing the net, I came across this short movie. It's seriously one of the nicest stop motion movies that I've ever seen. Just sit back and enjoy this movie.

Google's mail service, better known as Gmail, has a nice feature called keyboard shortcuts. This way, you can simply use your keyboard to navigate fast trough your Gmail account. I created this cheat sheet with they keyboard shortcuts from Gmail and what they do. Print it and put it next to your PC, you'll never forget an shortcut again.

For those people that don't have the keyboard shortcuts enabled (yet), go to the Settings page of Gmail and turn them on there.

You're probably one of the many Google users in the world. Ever had those days that you were searching on Google and you couldn't find what you were looking for? Try these tips to optimize your search phrase so that you'll most likely find what you've been looking for.