Speeding up your WordPress Dashboard

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Recently, I've noticed when I've been administrating my blog, my WordPress dashboard has become awfully slow, and I mean slow. The loading of the dashboard was like dial up speeds and im on a 2 MB broadband connection (Soon to be 10 MB) so it was a joke really. So I went hunting for some tips on getting my WordPress Dashboard like the speed of light again. Not all of the tips I found helped my specific situation, but some might help you if your in a similar situation

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Top 5 Website Statistic Systems

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Every webmaster wants to know how many hits his website is getting, whether it be daily, monthly or just sporadically; but with so many stat tools available, which one is the best to use? In this article, we’ll review some of the top systems available.

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Controlling www or no www in .htaccess

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When you go to punch in a URL in your browsers address bar, you may add the www. or be lazy and just put in thedomain.com, sometimes you can use both and sometimes one of the two redirects to the other version of the address. For example if you type in james-blogs.com in your URL address bar the www. suddenly is added on, why? This is because for SEO purposes it is important that you have one constant varitation while redirecting the both to chosen variation in my case I make the www. appear as I think it looks better with blog and domains with a dash in them. Read more to find out why this is important

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Are we seeing the end of Internet Explorer 6 support?

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Recently YouTube has announced it will be phasing out support for the Internet Explorer 6 Browser, about time! For anyone who is still on this out dated browser (And HAS the choice of upgrading) you really need councilling. I don't get why some people constantly ignore there Windows Update screen which by now will probably be screaming at them to update. What can you possibly benefit from using Internet Explorer 6 compared to Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, Chrome and the rest of them. With that small rant over, I was delighted to read on twitter than YouTube was the next website in the line to say good bye to Internet Explorer 6.

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Review of the Compaq Presario CQ60-307 Laptop

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A week ago I posted about my brand new laptop which I had recently got, now that I've had a couple of weeks to play around with it and test it out I thought I'd make detailed review of the product. This review is for the Presario CQ60-307, I am aware that there are different revisions of the laptop with slightly different specifications, but generally they are all similar to each other. First impressions of the laptop are really good. It is styled well and though it is larger than many laptops out there the weight is quite reasonable too. Read more for the full review.

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